I bought bad drives AGAIN, let's check them out! 

I did it when the platters were spinning, I think if I did that without the platters spinning the heads probably would have damaged the platters, but here I guess they didn't (even though it didn't sound good tbh)

The magic of old disks :) try that with a Seagate ST2000DM003 or a WD WD2000EFRX and you'll never see your data again :)

I think you saw the large lot of 38 drives didn’t you? The large lot was last month. Unless you mean bad drives? Obviously I can’t really get drives listed as bad all the time (there’s definitely not always lots like this that are either ultra cheap or very interesting to do this with)

Nice! Good luck with it :)

@@arnlol thank you!

Well, hard drive sounds is a really niche topic that most people will not care about. I actually think it's really quite good to have this many people that are watching the videos already :)

Yes I’m glad the Alps worked and the Conner could be fixed! I also really like the late (Seagate branded) Conner CABO, nostalgia might be paying a role in that but I really like they way the seeking sounds on it. Yeah the Maxtor drives are SCA 80 pins SCSI, I guess they were some of the last before everything switched to SAS on server grade stuff. The seek test on these is really amazing. It’s hard to realize how modern the 15k.7 are, they still have really loud seeking. I guess that shows how modern entreprise grade SAS drives are still interesting, compared to modern SATA drives which are often very quiet. I’m glad that you liked the video, I don’t really know when I’ll get more lots to make videos on, I mean we both know about some drives I will get in the future but so far I’m not sure when and if other lots will be happening before these or not :)

Good luck with the lot! I actually did the OS installs on all the drives expect the 2 SAS ones (to save time), I just happen to have a mix of French and English Windows installers. But the drives indeed came from different countries, the lot with the ALPS was from Germany, the others from France.

I have a drive from the same series but it is 4.3GB (and has a few bad sectors). The spindle indeed is really quiet and the seeking sounds really good. I don't know how the MTBF of drives is calculated, but I do not really believe hard drives could run 24/7 for so long with no isses honnestly.

Vendor-provided MTBF value doesnt mean what you described here.

I thought your claim far fetched, so checked. Maximum drive cover (not ambient, drive) temperature must not exceed 50c to maintain MTBF rating. 70c is max non-operating storage temperature.

@@arnlol Oh there are many that are 1,000,000 hours MTBF Most of the recent drives since they became quite affordable are now 50,000 hours MTBF. This is the reason these 30-40 year old drives are still operating in fairly reasonably large numbers. QUALITY!

@@ricsip I know.

Well you need a SCSI controller and cable and maybe an adapter depending on the connector that is on the drive and on your controller. Most controllers have a BIOS that detects the drive and allows it to be used in operating systems.

I mean i've burned through about 7 SSDs in just a few years... And only 2 hard drives, One being a poor quality Seagate and the other was a laptop drive abused by being shoved into a desktop running 24/7 for at least a year. Also a Dell Optiplex 390 should be upgraded with a new drive by now as Hitachi not only hasn't made HDDs since 2012, but also around 10 years it the limit for most consumer modern drives. That thing is also quite slow at only 100MB/s and about 28MB/s random while a newer 2019 4TB WD Ultrastar you can pick up for about 70$ will easily hit 250MB/s and 58MB/s random.

@@windisk1112 mine came in September 2010, which is the same month and year my brother is born.

And yes I don't know how the drive I have didn't die for it's 10-year limit. The first time I got my Dell Optiplex 390 for Christmas 2021 and the drive itself is 11 years old. 13 years old and is already giving me troubles. 1 S.M.A.R.T error and that's It.

@@MrIzaiah2007YT Wanna a secret? Use FWB drivers. Either way I have 40 year old hard drives in my collection that are not even noisy and suffer no stiction and have zero bad blocks.

Good quality hard drives will come with a MTBF of 800,000 - 1,000,000 hours . The cheap ones are rated at 50,000 hours MTBF and that's the majority that are sold to the public. Hence where the 10 year max life reference comes from. Enterprise drives will easily last 3-4 decades and beyond.

I do have a ST32122A but it has bad sectors though. I really like the sounds of the drives with that design. I think older drives are getting harder to find pretty much everywhere... As some people continue to put machines to ewaste with still working vintage drives in them :(

these are all super old though

I have only come across a single ST351A/X, and it is fully functional and part of the collection. So yeah no I do not have any PCBs for one of these. Sadly these drives are often very expensive and so far I have never seen one being part of a lot that I realistically could get.

@@arnlol yeah, I like these drives a lot and were part of my childhood, the sound is very nice and nostalgic. I will continue my search for a logic board 😁

Nice! These definitly aren't the most common drives you can find

The WD would re-do its seektest and freeze on any read, and the Seagate was unable to do any kind of writes and MHDD showed pretty much the entire surface as IDNF.

@@arnlol The WD drive is probably a goner unless it's a PCB-related issue, and the seagate probably degraded too much, or a pcb issue too. The more I think of it maybe the seagate has had a pcb swap? because it definently shouldn't be detected as a conner drive. You should totally try a pcb swap on the WD tho. maybe it'll work Also, what does IDNF exactly indicate on the MMHD surface scan?

@@mikixyz123 I tried a PCB swap on both and that didn’t help. No the Seagate/Conner does have its original PCB, it’s just a very early exemple of one of these. I’ll be honest I did not know these could be detected as Conner before I got that one. I assumed these were Seagate drives based on a Conner design, but I guess these still were straight up a Conner drive, just very late ones.

@@mikixyz123 IDNF is one of the error status that a drive can report, which means the drive did not find the sector that was requested.

Eventually I will but I don't know when though. Originally I thought I would work on it when I reached 300 drives but at this point I'm already closer to 400 that I am to 300.

Thanks! Yeah the SAS drives actually make quite a lot of "air" noise

I don't really know which drives were better or worse than others honestly (aside from some well known ones like the 75GXP). So yeah I don't think Quantums were particularily bad (nor better than others)

I must say I have a bit of an issue, I just don't feel motivated to edit the videos. I have multiple raw single drives recordings that I never edited (some of them are over 1 years old).

Yes it went really well!

Yes it does, it also happens to be quite uncommon, I'm really glad it worked.

Well it said bad sectors and it had bad sectors, I think most people would consider drives with bad sectors to be bad drives, even if the number of bad sectors is just 1. For my collection I really do not care at all, though obviously if a drive has no bad it’s better.

Yes it freezes when you try to read from it, so it's done for.

Yeah sometimes people do not know how that stuff works

@@arnlol yeah the drive is perfectly fine

I'm not sure but maybe? Though they ran Windows 7, not Windows server hmm. I beleive these two were in a raid 1 array, they have pretty much the same number of hours

I don’t really *need* them, I just want them because I like how they look and sound, and I enjoy testing them. It’s pretty much like any collector getting new pieces for their collections, what I’m collecting happens to be old hard drives.

@@arnlol I also have around 100 in my collection... including MFM drives

those SAS Seagates looking exactly like mine, but without HP label

Hope you like it! :)

​@@arnlolalways like it :D

Well I mean, it worked so... Of the laptop drives I was more surprised by the Toshiba that is really slow for a 100GB drive.

Well I was waiting for a temporary server to open on a game I play, which it did shortly after I posted this video, so it was great! Also the video worked pretty well it looks like which is nice :)

Well the text is wite with a black border so that it's readable, I think changing the text color to not always be the same would be wierd. Now yes some of the texts are probably too short, I try to make them long enough but it's hard to judge especially as everyone doesn't read at the same speed, also on the opened drives I didn't want the text to hide the heads moving.