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Inside a stepper motor hard drive: startup test

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Uploaded by on Feb 27, 2008

The start up test of a vintage hard drive taken with a Nokia 6600.

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  • I have one of those type of drives! 5mb, dc motor, belt drive, stepper motor controlled head. worked perfectly until i tried storeing too much data on it and the head hit the rusty pach on the disk... :-)

  • It's truly dead now? If not, a video would be interesting.

  • is that one of the older ones cuse mine has a electo magnet insted

  • All drives for the last 1.5 decades have used voice coils. This is a prehistoric hard drive.

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  • @bluebutdude1 cell phone, or as us brits call them: mobile phone ;)

  • @Petchhyy This one was actually somewhat better than that, clocking in at around 28 ms average seek (the same as a Zip drive). Seagate was able to pull that off by using a custom 5-phase stepper motor (which they'd originally developed for the ST-251 in 1988) and some other tricks.

  • got 2 old esdi drives

  • @marksmall82 hi there aluminum doesn't rust :P but it does corrode but that takes like 80 years so if you're disk was invented in the 60's the "rust" does not exist and in a sealed case it won't corrode. :P again

  • Looks like a sticky man typing something on disk =)

  • @SpellboundSolution My brother and me once opened a drive that a fully 'horizontal' head-assembly: the head was pointing to the center of the disk, and got moved by a worm-wheel and motor with pin-wheel... too bad I didn't keep it... was probably an idiotic low storage-capacity to now-adays standards.

  • LMFAO

  • lol

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