Open Hard Drive Spinning

Pulled apart an old Western Digital hard drive, hooked it up, and did some random sector seeking.

Due to the amount of time it took for some of the steps of this video, I edited it down from the original length (15 minutes) to a far more manageable 1 minute. There are some minor jumps here and there....

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• hard
• drive
• open
• spinning
• random

[SeikoPsycho]

What do you do for a living?

[technonerd0110]

I'm a professional student. :-)

[TechyWatcher]

i know what pc are you using! its a compaq evo d500 i guess?!? i have a power supply problem on my compaq

[technonerd0110]

I don't recall, actually. I recorded this too long ago and I don't have the computer easily accessible. It is a Compaq, and it's around 700Mhz. Not sure beyond that. I want to say it's the Presario series.

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

wow the other hdd in the pc is a deathstar..... id be backing that drive up they tend to fail way too much on people.

[technonerd0110]

Fortunately, that computer is one I never use.

[tombell12]

I've never physically been able to see the hard drive do it's thing so I am grateful that I found this video clip. Cheers ;).

Oh and what year was the old drive manufactured? Definitely somewhere in the 90's from the looks from it.

[RODRIGOR300]

amazing

[MARKALB97]

lol. A bit frammentate... try to defrag it lol again

[IFistTHeInnocent]

u need to defragment that shiteeee

[tipoomaster]

I'd like to see how nuts the read head on a 10,000RPM drive goes when you do this :-P

[BananaBean03]

that looks violent!