I really like how strange Fujitsu's enterprise seek-tests are, they're definitely quite odd! It's almost incredible with how much louder it gets when compared to standard file access... It's pretty much on par with anything from the 90's, much to my own surprise too!
Now that is much faster than the 2,5 inch Fujitsu 10k rpm drive showcased a week ago. Man, it is such tedious to repair optical drives. Anyway, i had an IDE DVD drive from Optiarc that had it's laser assembly movement system broken. The cause was a screw that unscrewed on a plastic part that received inertia from the stepper; during a speedsys random seek test, then the laser assembly came free from the stepper. I borrowed a screw from a random CD drive and now the drive can read discs again.
Certainly! It's quite a beast in comparison. I do agree, optical drive repair can be quite a pain. Particularly with how brittle the internal plastics are getting... I actually had no idea you could bench optical drives via speedsys (well, I've barely messed with the software honestly), so that's quite interesting. Glad to hear the drive is working again, nice work!
@@bigbluebananabread The stepper that time did a strage sound and i took it out. It was substituted with an Asus CD-RW drive. (Yes only CD no DVD, also the only IDE optical drives i got were CD minus the Optiarc, because the SSD is connected to the only SATA port on my motherboard, the other one broke off, and i cannot repair it cuz i'm no soldering master). I borrowed a screw from some random HP drive. I had to fine-tune the screw's tightness and tested if the stepper can move the laser by rotating the stepper by hand, then temporarily assembled it up to see if the stepper itself can do it. When i found the best fit, the drive was able to read discs again, and i am happy with the result. Never running Speedsys on that drive ever again.
I do actually have a 250GB ES, so I can film one of them eventually! I do remember it sounding pretty nice. I have a video on the ES.2's in a couple weeks, although I can't say they're as loud...
Hello bigbluebananabread!! I have this HD open but I can't turn it on, I've never found a photo of one like this open on RUclips or on the internet (I don't know if you've ever seen one like this open). Do you want me to post a video on my channel of this open HD? I have some videos of hard drives and I have a clear cover hard drive booting Windows 7!
I'd love to see that dude! I certainly haven't seen one of these open before, so that would be really interesting. Sad to hear it won't spin-up though (unless you haven't got a SAS controller to spin it up? Since they of course won't turn on without a controller). They're definitely very nice drives. I'll certainly check out your channel, love to see open units!
@@bigbluebananabread Hello bigbluebananabread! I actually don't have a Sas adapter but I have some SAS controller cards from Dell, but I don't know how to connect it to the HD, thank you very much for posting the video of the sound of it, I really wanted to hear it, I also have a Seagate Cheetah T10 15k rpm but I can't power It on :(. But anyway, I hope you like the video. I already posted it in my channel (I really can't imagine how he does this seektest that sounds like robot sounds) but I hope you like it!! Mine is a Dell and yours in the video is a Fujitsu but the model is the same and is also manufactured by Toshiba.
@@luisdbr9885 Glad you liked hearing what they sound like! They're really nice. Definitely recommend figuring out one of your SAS cards, these sound great in-person! I'll check out the video now! "Technically" Toshiba were the "manufacturers" of the drive at this time after they bought Fujitsu, but it's a 100% Fujitsu design! Toshiba didn't really have anything to do with it at all. I miss their drives :)
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That seektest is quite unusual, I like it. Did not expect the random seek to be so loud, especially from a drive this new.
I really like how strange Fujitsu's enterprise seek-tests are, they're definitely quite odd!
It's almost incredible with how much louder it gets when compared to standard file access... It's pretty much on par with anything from the 90's, much to my own surprise too!
The random seek test is louder than I expected!
Now that is much faster than the 2,5 inch Fujitsu 10k rpm drive showcased a week ago.
Man, it is such tedious to repair optical drives. Anyway, i had an IDE DVD drive from Optiarc that had it's laser assembly movement system broken. The cause was a screw that unscrewed on a plastic part that received inertia from the stepper; during a speedsys random seek test, then the laser assembly came free from the stepper. I borrowed a screw from a random CD drive and now the drive can read discs again.
Certainly! It's quite a beast in comparison.
I do agree, optical drive repair can be quite a pain. Particularly with how brittle the internal plastics are getting... I actually had no idea you could bench optical drives via speedsys (well, I've barely messed with the software honestly), so that's quite interesting. Glad to hear the drive is working again, nice work!
@@bigbluebananabread The stepper that time did a strage sound and i took it out. It was substituted with an Asus CD-RW drive. (Yes only CD no DVD, also the only IDE optical drives i got were CD minus the Optiarc, because the SSD is connected to the only SATA port on my motherboard, the other one broke off, and i cannot repair it cuz i'm no soldering master). I borrowed a screw from some random HP drive. I had to fine-tune the screw's tightness and tested if the stepper can move the laser by rotating the stepper by hand, then temporarily assembled it up to see if the stepper itself can do it. When i found the best fit, the drive was able to read discs again, and i am happy with the result. Never running Speedsys on that drive ever again.
Its just a 5000 rpm faster
that had got to be the coolest spin-up sound ever
Powerful
Gotta be one of the last 15k drives
Surprisingly, Toshiba still make 15k models to this very day! Although, they're limited to 2.5" options only...
@@bigbluebananabread Seagate does as well (Exos 15E900, also 2.5"-only)
@@bigbluebananabreadyup, only up to 900gb though afaik.
@@thegeforce6625 2.4tb for max iirc
the seagate barracuda ES 400gig is a cool drive too, very chunky sounding seeking
I do actually have a 250GB ES, so I can film one of them eventually! I do remember it sounding pretty nice. I have a video on the ES.2's in a couple weeks, although I can't say they're as loud...
The disk would be ideal for games, I have in mind to beat the SSD
Mfw no speed data 😢
Hello bigbluebananabread!! I have this HD open but I can't turn it on, I've never found a photo of one like this open on RUclips or on the internet (I don't know if you've ever seen one like this open). Do you want me to post a video on my channel of this open HD? I have some videos of hard drives and I have a clear cover hard drive booting Windows 7!
I'd love to see that dude! I certainly haven't seen one of these open before, so that would be really interesting. Sad to hear it won't spin-up though (unless you haven't got a SAS controller to spin it up? Since they of course won't turn on without a controller). They're definitely very nice drives.
I'll certainly check out your channel, love to see open units!
@@bigbluebananabread
Hello bigbluebananabread! I actually don't have a Sas adapter but I have some SAS controller cards from Dell, but I don't know how to connect it to the HD, thank you very much for posting the video of the sound of it, I really wanted to hear it, I also have a Seagate Cheetah T10 15k rpm but I can't power It on :(. But anyway, I hope you like the video. I already posted it in my channel (I really can't imagine how he does this seektest that sounds like robot sounds) but I hope you like it!! Mine is a Dell and yours in the video is a Fujitsu but the model is the same and is also manufactured by Toshiba.
@@luisdbr9885 Glad you liked hearing what they sound like! They're really nice. Definitely recommend figuring out one of your SAS cards, these sound great in-person! I'll check out the video now! "Technically" Toshiba were the "manufacturers" of the drive at this time after they bought Fujitsu, but it's a 100% Fujitsu design! Toshiba didn't really have anything to do with it at all. I miss their drives :)