I'm fairly certain that noise is the heads being released, although I'm not about to open it up to find out. These are getting rarer and rarer to find in decent working shape.
And yeah, quite a lot of platter space in these mammoths. Pretty sure these types of drives were used for enterprise and data center storage. Seagate made one of these types of drives with 47 GB, which was the last full height 5 1/4 inch drive ever made, back in '98, back when a standard home hard drive was between 3 and 10 GB. Look up the Seagate Elite 47.
@@redleader6442 I remember watching the video on that ST446452W hard drive MarWi16A had. That drive has 14 platters and 28 heads which is the most I've ever seen.
@@redleader6442 Also you are not kidding when you say these drives are getting rarer and rarer to find. I am so happy I got my MiniScribe 9380E I have.
Do you know how these wonderful drives make that ping? Also 10 platters and 19 heads is insane!
I'm fairly certain that noise is the heads being released, although I'm not about to open it up to find out. These are getting rarer and rarer to find in decent working shape.
And yeah, quite a lot of platter space in these mammoths. Pretty sure these types of drives were used for enterprise and data center storage. Seagate made one of these types of drives with 47 GB, which was the last full height 5 1/4 inch drive ever made, back in '98, back when a standard home hard drive was between 3 and 10 GB. Look up the Seagate Elite 47.
@@redleader6442 I remember watching the video on that ST446452W hard drive MarWi16A had. That drive has 14 platters and 28 heads which is the most I've ever seen.
@@redleader6442 Also you are not kidding when you say these drives are getting rarer and rarer to find. I am so happy I got my MiniScribe 9380E I have.