So I had this hard drive - and it stopped working ****VIDEO****

[Mark R]

So I bought a hard drive from a computer fair - and it worked fine for about a week - then it started slowing down, and getting bad sectors, and making funny clicking noises, and then not making any noises at all.

So I tried to get an RMA from Hitachi - OEM drive, they said - speak to your retailer.

So I tried the retailer - except they'd gone. Phone disconnected, and so is their e-mail.

So I sacrificed it to the god of curiosity. I was surprised too...



Video (8 MB DivX - you may want to save it first. It probably won't stream).

 

[CTho9305]

Mirror
edit: removed for now.

 

[kamper]

cool, thanks for the vid interesting how the arms go right off the platters here and there, to save potential wear and tear maybe?

what surprised you?

 

[nick1985]

talk about a waste of 1:31

 

[Mark R]

The fact that it actually worked. It was essentially totally dead, when I had last tried to do anything with it.

 

[ArmenK]

pretty cool, i thought it would get destroyed pretty fast with all the dust in the air

 

[WackyDan]

Bad voice coil. Safe bet.

 

[Eug]

Thx. Interesting... but perhaps you should invest in a tripod.

 

[AIWGuru]

Nice video.
What music was playing?
I liked it.

 

[AIWGuru]

Not going to tell me what music?
:sadpanda:

 

[JCE10]

here today, gone tomorrow. same with my fake dog doo keylock rock.

 

[Mark R]

1: Dido - Life for rent
2: Dido - This life is mine
3: No idea

There were 40 GB of mp3s on that drive - although most of them were corrupt and full of bad sectors even before I tore the drive apart. Presumably, that's also why the thing thrashes about like a dying animal (so many remapped sectors).

 

[AIWGuru]

Thanks!

 

[Special1Sauce]

Thats pretty cool man Nice video

 

[NFactor]

Thats interesting. Nice video.