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This brings me back Back when video cards weren't trying to gouge you

There are scaling issues with your scaler, it doesn't properly upscale boot screens and text mode stuff. Can you try fixing it?

Seems to be in great shape! What a nice example of a working unit. I didn't know these were an IBM OEM version, so that is neat! Just wondering how is the website content going? Although I'm sure that takes a lot of time that unfortunately a lot of us probably don't have these days. Hope the new year is going well for you : ))

The last *reliable* Barracuda-named drives, right before Maxtor's *vicious* managers overruled Seagate's engineers and hence dragged the 15‑year‑strong Barracuda name through the mud; so by late 2009 Seagate borrowed the adorable 2.5″ nearline Constellation's name (Seagate not only stole IBM's thunder in late 2001 by making the Barracuda ATA IV more‑reliable than IBM's best, right during the Deathstar debacle - going on to beat HGST to TMR heads *and* thermal fly‑height control with the *extraordinary* Barracuda 7200.8 in late 2004 - then in early 2009 they found a way to channel IBM's “Star” theme too 😁), marketing the Barracudas' proper successors as the “Constellation ES” (and briefly also the Barracuda XT as a high‑end desktop drive again with the proper 5‑year warranty; only the flagship ST32000641AS and ST33000651AS were sold at retail, but Apple also ordered the ST31000521AS and ST3500511AS after learning the *hard* way from Maxtor's deliberately‑falsified start/stop rating in the DiamondCrash/MaXCrime drives before). Just on a side note - some late batches of the 250GB 3-head 7200.10 (just before moving to the denser Superhawk) used a cheaper head assembly (serial numbers starting with #RT), and seem less stable than previous 7200.10/ES.1 units (serial numbers starting with #QE). I still trust them more than the willingly corner‑cut single‑platter Deskstars (and P7K500 also with two platters), though…

The U4, U8 and U10 (being designed really for consumer-electronics instead of proper desktops) cut several corners, including the use of inferior STMicroelectronics read/write channels (whereas the quality Medalist 8641/10240/13640/17240/17242 and Barracuda ATA I/II/III lines went with NEC read/write channels, the most-reliable option then available). By the U5 Seagate's engineers realized the STMicroelectronics channels were a bit too poor even for the U Series, and switched to NEC there too; this continued to the U6 (although those skimped on the media protection and are *very* prone to degradation). The Barracuda ATA IVs used the Agere MS455 R/W channel (not quite as bulletproof as NEC, but still reliable enough overall); unfortunately STMicroelectronics seemingly *bullied* Seagate into mixing their R/W channels into the Barracuda ATA V onward, as they degraded *en masse* (you can revive those drives by swapping PCBs, but you have to borrow it from a *whole* working donor drive rather than naïvely buying a separate and probably also-bad PCB on eBay; and even more-annoyingly, the STMicroelectronics and Agere channels have different electrical characteristics and won't interchange). By late 2004 or early 2005 the failures became evident (again!) and Seagate's engineers revised the MCU specifications (from 4490D6 to 4490D8 on PATA, and 4490D5 to 4490D7 on non-NCQ SATA models), but I still don't trust the STMicroelectronics 4490D7/8 as much as the Agere 4490D4/5/6 (in theory the Agere 4490D7/8 should be most-reliable of all on the 7200.7, though I don't have one to hand so I can't check for myself). I suspect most of the refurbished 7200.7s you may find had their PCBs replaced by Seagate, rather than any mechanical issue.

These look really neat inside, from my experience usually quite reliable too. Shame this one is toast : ((

Samsung's SpinPoint V9100 & V10200 (Voyager 8 & 9) came in handy during 2000 as above-average 5400rpm drives, but almost everyone else's 7200rpm drives (even Maxtor's excellent DiamondMax Plus 40, before the post-Deathstar FUD enabled them to commit planned‑obsolescence and data‑murder by blatantly falsifying the DM+9's start/stop rating) were much better‑built again; they were just in short supply for most of the year. Although those models did a solid job winning fanboys back then (notably Tony Wilson of Red Hill Technology) and they did retain the normal 3‑year warranty during 2003 (after Maxtor deliberately cut it to 1 year, presumably blackmailing Seagate and WD into doing the same), it wasn't long before Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 beat that with its late‑2004 upgrade to *5* years on all capacities (fearlessly facing‑off the DiamondCrash and MaXCrime), ultimately proving the most-reliable of its (or any!) era. Caviars of the era were second-best overall (after belatedly adopting FDBs), multi‑platter Deskstars were solid but the single‑platter variants (and P7K500) cheaped-out; with the SpinPoints consistently-middling in all capacities.

I had this drive in my IBM aptiva. I still have it stuffed in a box somewhere but those spool up followed by the seek clicks are so nostalgic

So brilliant the way a voice coil actuator works--simply awesome--what a device :-) This video looks and sounds great.

Typical low-end Maxtor; these VL series weren't *as* bad as the later slimlines and DM+9/10/11, but still quite mediocre. It's tragic that my 52049H4 (the actually-good DiamondMax Plus 40) had its PCB fail, only for my 31536H2 (VL30)'s electronics to survive; I'll *never* forgive STMicroelectronics and their cheaped‑out chips…

always thought the rubber bumper sleeve on these was kinda stylish

The seektest nearly passed... what a shame

Where you get this drive? I also want this drive!

that screen has ghosting

sounds like better build quality

2:34 sounds like read error 2:50 is poor sector

initialize is calibrate

sounds like gigabythe gpu fan (fail to start count smart)

This is one of the latest 7K4000-based drives I've seen. I have a 7K6000-based Deskstar NAS manufactured in 2017 that's been a real workhorse so far. I really do miss HGST's reliability...

Hello thank you for your videos it's really great 👍🏻 I had a question in your collection what is the loudest SATA disk (it's for a personal project and I find the noise cool it gives a kind of retro side😊💾) and I would like to have a reference model for noise

Does this drive have head ramp parking?

awesome.

My teacher at the votech that I went to in the 1990s had one of Quantium Bigfoot drives not sure if it was this exact size but he put in a computer in our electronics lab and it was our main local RedHat Linux server.

wow this thing's got some BASS i once held one of those datacenter-type drives (the barracuda ES) in my hand while it was doing stuff non-critical but you could feel the torque of the motors n heads which is kinda awesome

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

That thing sounds great! Ball bearing 10K RPM drives are always the perfect amount of loud.

only scsi drive ive seen without a solenoid. interesting how their actuators are reversed

Nice to see a recertified Maxtor drive, it appears they fixed it right for it to work all these years later! I find the curved cover at the top a bit odd, especially with a square label. It seems like on some drives they had the curved top cover, and a rounded label, and on others, they had a square label. Not sure why they did that, or if there was a battle of which label style looked better on the rounded cover haha. These sound great!

So glad you covered one of these! They really feel state-of-the-art, especially for the time. These appear to be incredibly reliable, just as IBM stated. When executed right, it does prove that glass disk drives can indeed last longer. This was what the 75GXP should've been, a shame that the drive before those are the one's that ended up surviving. IBM definitely was on top of the ball game with drive innovation, at least I feel so!

IBM made amazing drives... right up until they didn't with their glass platter ones. Here's hoping this one keeps on working like it already has for a long time. BTW love the SuSE Linux boxes!

I used to own the 9GB variant of this drive - bigger, louder, hotter and took even longer than this to spin up. And not only did it *look* like a brick, it also failed quite quickly (even though I knew about their heat issues and placed a fan pointing directly at the drive). Still, I found Micropolis drives somewhat fascinating, because they were so different from what other manufacturers had to offer - although not always in a positive sense...

so thats what it looks like inside...

What is a good capture card I can use fot recording? Also, can you plz cut the post time down just abit :)

oh my god... the amount of corrosion this thing has is insane

I also have a disk from this line, but it’s 2 TB and it takes longer to spin up, which may mean that it has more platters

optimus prime

Oh man I had one of these I think in a Canon 486 laptop many years ago.

Oh the memories

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music to my ears

Mfw no speed data 😢

that was... the quitest hdd ever

This is Lineup that currently under Western Digital. From IBM to Hitachi to Western Digital now

Nice video and drive! Just wondering, would there be any way to tweak your audio setup to be able to hear the head seeks more clearly? Can mostly hear just bearing noise now compared to previous videos

Additional thing i'd like to mention is that the scaler's OSD still displays the resolution info, can you try disabling them?

I take this model was before the GMR heads and glass platter deskstar 40GV and 75GXP line? The seek test sounds similar to the older metal platter models like you said the 37GP. I know NEC made deskstars later on with said glass platters, head ramps, and GMR heads. I can't help but think i might have had one around the 2000s that i got from work, a 40GB model, i think a 60GXP... A shame that this didn't last long. Did it die to the krr krr krr scratch of death?

I had one of these in an old pentium desktop system(was a pizza box). I remember the spin up sound and seek test. Definitley cant forget that!

I had one of these. Working way back in the day. Dont remember what happened to it though. Interesting they made a drive with ramps that wasnt the diamondmax 8 or fireball or 541DX (the slimline versions). This is a unicorn for sure!

A lot of the HM 2.5” drives by Samsung sound the same. Depressed, and always make that “kneeugh” sound if they are unexpectedly shut down.

Just wondering, why are so many of your videos getting privated?