Wow. It never ceases to amaze me the speed with which the heads move back and forth, 'flying' over the surface, while transferring megabytes of data. And they do this for years and years.
@izlude2 the drive suffered a head crash so it was useless before I even opened it. In fact you can see it hesitate sometimes when it reaches the damaged track.
The computer is booting from a floppy disk instead.
fucking strange. sounds like a little jet engine. these things are already ULTRA obsolete, but people still use it, cuz the fucking industry does not want to reveal the MCS (mobile cube storage), it consist in a cube, that retains information on all 6 sides, and the data is recorded forward inside the cube reaching the center of it. the first one can handle up to 345terabytes, and is suspect that the Tokyo supercomputer operates with it.
solid state memory has the flaw that if one of those little lines fails the unit is shot. It's also rather expensive. Magnetic memory will be around for a long time to come.
i am NOT talking about SSD, man. there is about 3 models of MCS: the first went out on a size of 15cm², retaining up to 345Tb of data. the second and improved one, use the Blue laser technology and has a size of 22cm², and is capable of handling up to half petabyte (500Tb). the last one, developed by a Taiwanese industry, has a size of huge 40cm², uses the blue laser and it has modular capacity, depending on the reading method. the largest it handles is 1.6Pb
its amazing how fast it moved but can you imagine how much more fast todays drives do? especially the raptors, the head will be moving so fast it dissapears lol
How long until it crashed? You were obviously servoing so the thing wasn't damaged too badly. Probably just needed to be reformated. Pretty old model if it was only a 4GB version.
It looks to have 4 platters, so it's probably from late 1996 or so. There was a year or two around that time when drive capacity exploded from less than 5GB to 20GB or so.
show me a hdd that works proper, so I can get an idea
bigcanuckful 1 day ago
Wow. It never ceases to amaze me the speed with which the heads move back and forth, 'flying' over the surface, while transferring megabytes of data. And they do this for years and years.
bellarmine33 2 weeks ago
that called crysis
thedeadhp 5 months ago
how did you get the drive to boot??? or did you? whenever i open mine up, they never boot. it becomes a dead drive immediately.
izlude2 7 months ago
@izlude2 the drive suffered a head crash so it was useless before I even opened it. In fact you can see it hesitate sometimes when it reaches the damaged track.
The computer is booting from a floppy disk instead.
guitarguy19852 7 months ago
До чего умная и сложная штуковина!
skripko7 1 year ago
Anyone else here "oh my god" as it grinds? xD
Lukeno52 1 year ago
ahh the old days when our hard drives made that weird grinding sound when loading something
sushlet 1 year ago
LOL no wonder my old hard drives are so freakin noisy
10forRP 1 year ago
that head is fucking fast 0.0
q009q009 1 year ago 2
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the731272 1 year ago
cool stuff
ololo1000100500 2 years ago
fucking strange. sounds like a little jet engine. these things are already ULTRA obsolete, but people still use it, cuz the fucking industry does not want to reveal the MCS (mobile cube storage), it consist in a cube, that retains information on all 6 sides, and the data is recorded forward inside the cube reaching the center of it. the first one can handle up to 345terabytes, and is suspect that the Tokyo supercomputer operates with it.
LauxRO 2 years ago
solid state memory has the flaw that if one of those little lines fails the unit is shot. It's also rather expensive. Magnetic memory will be around for a long time to come.
mtoffle 2 years ago
i am NOT talking about SSD, man. there is about 3 models of MCS: the first went out on a size of 15cm², retaining up to 345Tb of data. the second and improved one, use the Blue laser technology and has a size of 22cm², and is capable of handling up to half petabyte (500Tb). the last one, developed by a Taiwanese industry, has a size of huge 40cm², uses the blue laser and it has modular capacity, depending on the reading method. the largest it handles is 1.6Pb
LauxRO 2 years ago
PEOPLE!!! i am sooo lucky i got the hdd with a glass cover it is awsome you can wachi it move :P wighle waching this :P
kisapedra 2 years ago
that hard drive has gone nuts!.
nicolaj0154 2 years ago
i have tested hdmotion
your HDD have a littel fail during hd motion (bad sector) but your hdd look like good working hdd
arnlol 2 years ago
i like the way a third of the platter is covered :P
ps can this program affect data on the hdd? i wanna try this :P
cheetawolf 3 years ago
thats pretty sweet to see a hard drive head working like that.
FBHSswimmer2006 3 years ago
its amazing how fast it moved but can you imagine how much more fast todays drives do? especially the raptors, the head will be moving so fast it dissapears lol
AngryItalian83 2 years ago
i have the 1 gigabyte version of that drive
Messerschmitt262a2a 3 years ago
How long until it crashed? You were obviously servoing so the thing wasn't damaged too badly. Probably just needed to be reformated. Pretty old model if it was only a 4GB version.
mtoffle 3 years ago
It looks to have 4 platters, so it's probably from late 1996 or so. There was a year or two around that time when drive capacity exploded from less than 5GB to 20GB or so.
captain150 2 years ago
cool, that's what a hard drive looks like
carexpertandy 3 years ago