WD AC34300 discussion and autopsy

Unlike other hard drive videos I've done, this is of a late-'90s drive common to many midrange desktop computers, so you've probably seen one before. The drive is dead, of course, and we're going to take a look at the innards to see if we can find out why, or at least find out what made it tick.

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This drive has died due to media failure. This is a very common fault with the 34300 and 35100. They were WDs first 5400RPM consumer drives and the QC was not great during the time yours was made. So the media has faded to the point that there is no more servo data, so the heads will sit there until they pick up something. Other faults include PCB Failure from cheapened chips and head failure, but your drive clearly shows media failure.