Have a soft spot for the Fuji MPF--just copied everything off my 1999 Fujitsu MPD3108AT (part of a 40th birthday present PC) onto my new WD 18TB Ultrastar. Also, I personally can't go past an IBM or anything from HGST--given how much both companies contributed to research and development of today's HDD. Always enjoy listening and looking :-)
HGST drives are really great and reliable, and the ones I used also had audible seeking. Most IBM drives are also quite good aside from the ones of the 75GXP-era. For some reason I haven't been too atracted to Fujitsu drives in the past though it has changed a bit now. Bummer than that one ended up having a lot of bad sectors even if it's not a big deal for my collection. That MPD you have is a 3 platter drive so it was one of the higher end one.
@@arnlol yes it’s 3 platters but only 5 heads which caps it at 10 Gb-the next drive up from it has the sixth head for about 12 Gb (all done for marketing). The HGST / WD 18 Tb drive I copied to has 9 platters/ 18 heads-with an 11 platter / 22 head unit also available now for about 26 Tb. Your sound recordings are excellent :-)
That WD portfolio itself is great! :) I love how you just had to make the comment of "this one (Quantum Fireball EX 3.2A) is staying closed" and yeah I would love to get some of these someday
Never seen that WD before. The seek test is almost like a older caviar. The oddest WD i've seen/had in my collection was the old WD Enterprise models (SCSI). Love those Quantums.
Yeah the Portfolio is rare and a strange short lived 3 inch form factor invented by JTS. I do have a WD Enterprise that looks very similar to a caviar externally but spins at 7200 rpm with 4 platters and having a seek test that's very different.
The Portfolio is the WD version of a 3 inch drive, which indeed was invented by JTS with the Nordic, but obviously that drive is fully made by WD with a caviar like seek test and a construction that's a little bit different to the JTS Nordic. That form factor was very short lived and both WD and JTS sold some of those with adapters to make them usable on desktop PCs with regular IDE.
I didn't really know what to expect about that drive, but it actually sounds quite nice and a little bit strange I think. Interesting choice by IBM to make a 5GB drive in 2000
Yeah you need either the adapter or one of the few laptops that used that form factor (which is not many of them). The connector looks similar to a CF card but it isn't the same.
I have put some Music on some of the other lot videos too, it's really random if I will or not, just like sometimes I record me unboxing the drives and other times I don't etc.
I had 3 WD Drives. I had a WD drive and when i booted windows. It showed "Windows had detected a hard disk problem." as the same of every drive. The 2 drives are head crash (slippery hands and it fell) and I dont have the necessary tools to do so. One is still going strong with 100+ bad sectors and 9% health...
Ouch, if that message shows up it means the drive is SMART failed so it must have some big issues... I have done the mistake of dropping drives too and yeah that's really not good for them (especially if they are running)
It is because in different countries they use different layouts. In France they use AZERTY which are the first letters in the first six row of letters. The most common is QWERTY. Each layout has different key positions.
I'm French and here we use the AZERTY layout, so my keys are in the proper position for that layout. The only strange thing about my Keyboard is the escape key that I replaced with a handmade Pikachu encased in resin that I bought years ago.
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agreed
@@engineer359 same
Thanks! Although I'm not really doing anything special compared to the others am I?
@arnlol I like that you upload often & that you're informative with every drive you cover, like showing the startup sequence / hdd tests you run
14:37 the goofiest sounding of them all
Yeah even when it's booting I think this drive sounds strange but it seems to be working just fine so I guess it's supposed to sound like that
it kind of reminds me of splashing shallow puddle sound lol
Have a soft spot for the Fuji MPF--just copied everything off my 1999 Fujitsu MPD3108AT (part of a 40th birthday present PC) onto my new WD 18TB Ultrastar. Also, I personally can't go past an IBM or anything from HGST--given how much both companies contributed to research and development of today's HDD. Always enjoy listening and looking :-)
HGST drives are really great and reliable, and the ones I used also had audible seeking. Most IBM drives are also quite good aside from the ones of the 75GXP-era.
For some reason I haven't been too atracted to Fujitsu drives in the past though it has changed a bit now. Bummer than that one ended up having a lot of bad sectors even if it's not a big deal for my collection. That MPD you have is a 3 platter drive so it was one of the higher end one.
@@arnlol yes it’s 3 platters but only 5 heads which caps it at 10 Gb-the next drive up from it has the sixth head for about 12 Gb (all done for marketing). The HGST / WD 18 Tb drive I copied to has 9 platters/ 18 heads-with an 11 platter / 22 head unit also available now for about 26 Tb. Your sound recordings are excellent :-)
That WD portfolio itself is great! :) I love how you just had to make the comment of "this one (Quantum Fireball EX 3.2A) is staying closed" and yeah I would love to get some of these someday
Yep, not making the mistake of openning drives that work anymore. And yeah that portfolio is amazing!
I’ve got a 120gb 2.5 ide hard drive from 2007 that I pulled out of an old thinkpad that still works
I love the Western Digital seektest, specially the Caviar ones!
Yeah the WD Caviar seektest of that era are really nice, it's pretty cool that the Portfolio has a very similar seek test to those
Never seen that WD before. The seek test is almost like a older caviar. The oddest WD i've seen/had in my collection was the old WD Enterprise models (SCSI). Love those Quantums.
Yeah the Portfolio is rare and a strange short lived 3 inch form factor invented by JTS. I do have a WD Enterprise that looks very similar to a caviar externally but spins at 7200 rpm with 4 platters and having a seek test that's very different.
Apparently the WD Portfolio started out as a JTS product- actually one of the first hard disks to be developed by them.
The Portfolio is the WD version of a 3 inch drive, which indeed was invented by JTS with the Nordic, but obviously that drive is fully made by WD with a caviar like seek test and a construction that's a little bit different to the JTS Nordic. That form factor was very short lived and both WD and JTS sold some of those with adapters to make them usable on desktop PCs with regular IDE.
omggg these old travelstar drives
old thinkpad memories, these always sounded a bit special
I didn't really know what to expect about that drive, but it actually sounds quite nice and a little bit strange I think. Interesting choice by IBM to make a 5GB drive in 2000
A word of warning to those seeking WD Portfolio drives, make sure you get them with the adapter as they are useless without it.
Yeah you need either the adapter or one of the few laptops that used that form factor (which is not many of them). The connector looks similar to a CF card but it isn't the same.
Did you miss the checkbox that says "Show the welcome screen at startup"?
Nope, its probably intentional he left it there
I know it exists but I'm letting the welcome thing run as it causes a little bit of extra seeking on the drives
i wasn't expecting music in an Arnlol video, but i'll take it any day
I have put some Music on some of the other lot videos too, it's really random if I will or not, just like sometimes I record me unboxing the drives and other times I don't etc.
I had 3 WD Drives. I had a WD drive and when i booted windows. It showed "Windows had detected a hard disk problem." as the same of every drive. The 2 drives are head crash (slippery hands and it fell) and I dont have the necessary tools to do so. One is still going strong with 100+ bad sectors and 9% health...
Ouch, if that message shows up it means the drive is SMART failed so it must have some big issues... I have done the mistake of dropping drives too and yeah that's really not good for them (especially if they are running)
i just noticed that the keys on your keyboard are switched, why do you keep them like that? Amazing drives btw!
It is because in different countries they use different layouts. In France they use AZERTY which are the first letters in the first six row of letters. The most common is QWERTY. Each layout has different key positions.
I'm French and here we use the AZERTY layout, so my keys are in the proper position for that layout. The only strange thing about my Keyboard is the escape key that I replaced with a handmade Pikachu encased in resin that I bought years ago.
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