Never realised that on whatever microphone you're using, the Palmer drives (HTS541010B7E610) have the same spindle motor as my Hubble LT WD5000LPCX-24C6HT0; I always thought my WD10SPZXes sound nothing like it.
Nice! Thanks for the information. I use multiple microphones for my video, this one happens to have been recorded with an old iPhone 7. iPhone 8 and newer muffle out everything that is recorded (thanks apple), which causes quality degradation. On older drives with ball bearings, I will usually use my Fifine K669, which records bass really well and makes a good sound. On newer drives however, it creates A LOT of distortion sadly. Thanks for commenting!
It may be worth running the self-tests on the WD4000FYYZ; I have three WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (Black, basically the same drive without TLER and with one less platter), two of which are well-used (6 to 8 years continuous runtime) and likewise have a few uncorrectable sectors (though no reallocations yet), but also failed even the short self-test. For now I've swapped to the third, less-used one (which has no health problems and passes extended self-test). They may well hang in there for a while even after failing the self-test; just limit their use to non-critical files.
The seller i bought this from I have bought from multiple times. They fully test their drives before selling them, and make sure bad sectors don't increase. This drive runs great for me and has been working well.
Suprising that those 120GXPs still do their seektest. They must not be used very much. As they like to develop bad sectors and headcrashes randomly on their own. The bearings don't sound to bad either! I've taken apart the 60 and 75gb 75gxp drives and they look different than the other models of the 75gxp line. They look more like the ultrastars
They have 22209 and 22280 hours respectively, and the jumpers were set, one as main and the other as a slave. They were clearly used together. The last scan I did early this year on both reported really good health.
I used a regular scanner. This was inspired off of BigBlueBananaBread's scanning idea. I scanned these with an Epson Workforce WF-2850 at 1200DPI, A6 Paper type. It works really well for these.
