Inside of Hard Drive

Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside.

- Model: Quantum Bigfoot BF 1.2 GB
Internal hard drive - 5.25" x 1/4H - 3600 rpm - 16.6 MBps - EIDE/ATA-2

- General
MPN: QM51280BF-AR
Device Type: Hard drive - internal
Width: 14.6 cm
Depth: 20.3 cm
Height: 1.9 cm
Weight: 0.7 kg

- Hard drive
Form Factor: 5.25" x 1/4H
Capacity: 1.2 GB
Interface Type: EIDE/ATA-2
Buffer Size: 128 KB
Compliant Standards: S.M.A.R.T., 160-bit Reed Solomon ECC

- Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 16.6 MBps (external) / 10.5 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 15.5 ms (average) / 30 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 3.5 ms
Average Latency: 8.3 ms
Spindle Speed: 3600 rpm

- Configuration
Bytes per Sector: 512

- Reliability
MTBF: 300,000 hour(s)
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles: 20,000

- Expansion / connectivity
Connections: 1 x storage - EIDE/ATA-2 - 40 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 5.25" x 1/4H

- Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 5 - 85%
Shock Tolerance: 10 g @ 11ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 70 g @ 11ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Sound Emission: 34 dBA
Max Altitude Operating: 3 km

ATTENTION: This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky.

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[52252263]

dead ㅇㅇ

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

that hard drive has head crash.... you can hear the heads buzzing and u can also see the click of death, and the drive trying to recalibrate.. looks like that drive has had its life.

[christiancapella1]

@dxproductions100 But its dead.

[christiancapella1]

Deleting many folders i the startup of the drive moron!!!

[30GB]

that make one cool flywheel for my engines

[arnlol]

your copy/paste look like clik of death :p

[joshuamarius]

Thanks for posting a video response to my Inside of Hard Drive. I would suggest however that you change the title and also many of the words in the description...it's pretty clear you copy/pasted off mine.

[desertman123]

LAWL that gave me a nice laugh.

[hmong337]

very cool video! 5 stars for taking the time to show us how this shit works.

[montzigner]

That was cool now that I know how hard it works I wont leave my computer on all night ;)