Hard drive working with cover off

[houshidar558]

So thats what made that noise in those old desktops. I always wondered

[97221135]

LoL . MAXTOR Drive . Its Dead Right ?

[brandon9966]

and theres this guy with a video saying your harddrive won't work unless your "case" screws are torqued...jesus

[bratonabike]

course its never good to operate a HDD without its cover on, the dust and crap can scratch it and you know :)

[wiseguyproductions]

soon drives like this will be like watching an 8track player - no more moving parts!

[agustinxDable]

that speed! I never saw one so modern I have seen only open from 5 gigabytes this is 500 or something

[Sauber9]

Ah, a Maxtor, isn't it?

[usernamen0tfound]

how does that move so fast and percice!

[brizabonskee]

Is it true that if one piece of dust lands in the right place the whole thing is toast? or if you touch the platter? Pretty miraculous it lasted that long.

[TheMihek]

arent u litle worried about 7500 rpm disc hitting your head

[ThePsychoBoiz]

This is a Maxtor Right?

[ScottieNiven]

@ThePsychoBoiz Yep!

[adambombAK]

Yes! I always wonder how so many people are able to tell the brand just by seeing the inner components.

[ChronicMist]

it's not the inner components. it's the sound :) maxor hard drives always make this kind of sound. if it's almost soundless for example, that's western digital ;) etc

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

@adambombAK this one is not difficule... a voice-coil-right-drive, maxtors were the last drives with the heads in that position

also, every brand has typical things in their drives which tell who made it for example seagate uses an airbrake

[the731272]

@adambombAK well usually you can tell its a maxtor if you hear clicking

[willkpres]

@adambombAK it's the only one people really want to die

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

@willkpres i second that. Maxtor is junk. the new maxtors are refurbed seagates. I will never in my life touch another maxtor unless it is to destroy it. My WDC's working still to this day with no bad sectors and quiet and fast. Maxtors are just the value seagates now. I wuldnt touch them with a 50 foot pole. Although i used to have a 1TB hitachi that worked with no bad sectors fast and quiet. But i stick with WDC from now on.

[windowspiratato]

@adambombAK probably not by seeing the inner parts (even if that flat cable in that position is unique to old maxtors), but by the sound they make. On old drives is easy to ear the difference between a maxtor, quantum or ibm drive

[amokachi31]

@windowspiratato dont say quantum to me. even thinking about 10 years ago, (the days that I used a quantum 20 gb) I can still feel the headache that I used to have by the noice of the hdd.

[windowspiratato]

@amokachi31 I am still using a 20gb quantum fireball (a very appropriate name for such a hot-running drive) and, while is as noisy as a fiat ducato 2.5 turbodiesel with a broken muffler, is pretty much bullettproof (it survived several >1m drops and is the only disk i have that works with a >40mhz pci bus (cheapo overclocked 440bx motherboard without proper dividers)). And, as I've said, has a cool name - "I've god a WD blue" "I've got a FIREBALL. Where is your god now?"

Sorry for crappy English

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

@adambombAK its the servo arm they use. Same in all Maxtors i've destroyed. the ddiamoncrash minus 9 and above were known for failure. Hence Crapstor

[crashbandicoot4everr]

@adambombAK me too!!! :P due to asperger's syndrome i think!! :P:P 

[crashbandicoot4everr]

@adambombAK i can do the same thing too!! i think its from asperger's syndrome!!! :P:P

[MixerVM]

@adambombAK I could tell by the sound!

[MysticRixel]

@adambombAK Easy, reading your old comment.

[christiancapella1]

Itsa crapstor!

[bradman5505]

I Know Right!!!! i hate then there Crapstors!! LOL

[christiancapella1]

Why did you reply to a 2 month old comment? XD

[sciencoking]

so amazing to see it work... i did this with an old (and i mean REALLY old, 10GB or so) hard drive and it worked for 3 days until it broke...

[Midna]

Too much dust in my house to do that. :(

[BFMVpwnage5168]

so thats the thing in your computer that makes noise when you load something?

[jeffgod2]

i guess

[soundspark]

Yep.

[jeffgod2]

well not all of it cause ive never heard of a pc with a fan that has no sound at all

[trainman536]

yes the clicking is the laser on that needle thing writing and eraceing things

[cheetawolf]

its not a laser.

its a little teeny tine magnet :P

[Skidd2]

The clicking is not actually the drive head (thats whats moving), its has to do with the magnets that control the head... the clicking is because of a set of magnets at the back of the drive... there is a little piece of metal that the back of the head hits, which stops it from going too far and coming off of the spinning platter( that's the metal disk)

[rebelientje]

@BFMVpwnage5168 yep and its anoying :(

[xtreme01hac10docter]

Dont get any dust in there or it will not work right!!!

[TGWLEAD]

i want to see the hard with cover off, when it loading on your computer! =)

It will be interesting...

[Imprezaman555]

wow. they are so precise and fast. the head especially. i think hdds are reaching their climax before they are replaced by ssds. that wont be for another 1-3 years though.

[Atheismrulez]

I think that they'll replace desktop Hard Drives until at least 4-5 years from now. The reason is that even now, SSDs cost a lot more to purchase, manufacture, and are not sold as much as HDDs. The problem with SSDs is that it doesn't give many advantages on a desktop environment. Many 10,000 and 15,000 RPM Hard Drives are coming out now and those deliver about the same read/write speeds. I do see it, however, replacing HDDs in notebooks soon because it has more advantages there.

[Imprezaman555]

true, a wd raptor 10k rpm hdd that can hold 300gb was about $200 last time i checked and a 256gb ssd is of similar performance but costs $500, however the only 15krpm drives i have seen are scsi drives, i have yet to see a SATA 3gb/s drive that is that fast, or any other

"internal interface" like pci.

[rugerfan08]

even Sata drives now much cheaper you can commonly find a 1.5 TB sata disk for around $175 as a dealer. SSD is coming no doubt and with the acceleration of technology it wont be long however the need for increased data capacity continues to grow at at least the same pace and Hard Drives will continue to evolve as well. HD's will be with us for many years to come.

[Imprezaman555]

actually, since i posted that comment ssds have gone down in price and in increased in speed considerably. i found a lightening fast 32 gigger for $100, and that was on the expensive side because of the speed. about 7 times the transfer speed of the 72K rpm drive in my laptop. i would say in the next 2-3 years ssds will rival hdds in size:price ratio.

[ncrkel]

That particular harddrive is actually one of the best on earth.

[funcrazy123]

I wish i had job just to spin around forever until i broke lawl

[AlexIsUber]

lolololol, that thing is fast, can u imagine 10000 rpm velociraptor. omg

[Nopiw]

nothing special...

SCSI(Server) Drives go up to 15000 rpm for many years now.

[n11lc]

cool guy

[aldobu1990]

am your eyes will see it wont move lol :D LIGHT SPEED

[xtreme01hac10docter]

Yeah but thats how fast the Disk is spining not the auctuator.

[DURAMATRIX112]

i find it interesting how harddrives work.

[xtreme01hac10docter]

I know it seams like they would be stored on a large Chip. Just think 30 years ago Manitosh used magnitic tape (Like inside a VHS tape) to store and read data!!!!!

[scottieneon]

Use hdmotion on it!

[adambombAK]

thanks for the suggestion! i didn't know about that program. i'm downloading it now.

[monsimand]

hwat is hd motion??

[scottieneon]

hdmotion is a program which you run in MDOS mode on a computer. It moves the hd arm in patterns on the primary harddrive only. type in "hdmotion" in the search videos to find out.

[blacklabelrum]

sweet

[jonasgu97]

ich hab die gleich fsetplaate nur meine ist schon kaputt

[adambombAK]

this was a 4gb maxtor (very old) that was just laying around. i opened the case and plugged it in.

i wasn't concerned about dust cause i wasn't planning on using it any more.

[ZVONIMIR111]

@adambombAK probably good hard drive for windows 98 installation.

[tombell12]

How old is the drive? It looks faster than the last hard drive I saw on here and that was an old one as well.

[BadAndUgly]

Old maxtor drive, I window-modded one and it Worked fine until I accidentally dropped it =/

Ran it on an external USB interface so it could be set visible anywhere near the computer.

[beere911]

how did u window mod it, didnt dust get in to it?