Tr3vor
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I mean what should I pay nowdays, I'd want a western digital caviar drive around the 1-2gb range. they just rock, and I love the sounds they make.
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Western Digital Caviar 21200 going bad?
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SpidersWeb
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They should not be expensive at all and should be very easy to find.
Here is one for $5 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Western-Dig...Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item27c6a8966f
Another impressive sounding drive (but without the performance to back it up
) are the Quantum Bigfoot drives. I hated them when new (was like a hard drive for the unemployed ) but now days I actually really love how loud the head movements are.
Here is one for $5 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Western-Dig...Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item27c6a8966f
Another impressive sounding drive (but without the performance to back it up
) are the Quantum Bigfoot drives. I hated them when new (was like a hard drive for the unemployed ) but now days I actually really love how loud the head movements are.
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Chuck(G)
25k Member
I still have a bunch of the Bigfoots--4, 8 and 8GB capacities. They aren't fast, but for me they worked really well and very reliably.
I'd always considered them (and the Caviars) to be pretty much silent in comparison to the 5¼" FH hard drives--some of which are loud enough to interfere with your concentration.
I'd always considered them (and the Caviars) to be pretty much silent in comparison to the 5¼" FH hard drives--some of which are loud enough to interfere with your concentration.
Tr3vor
Experienced Member
Aren't the bigfoot drives like 5.25", but its more like quarter height or something like that? I wouldn't have a clue as to where to put a drive like that in my computer, since the 2 drive bays are filled with cd-roms
SpidersWeb
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Yeah they're 5.25", maybe 1/3 height but really take up a half height bay.
Just grab another 3.5" drive for $5-10, will be sweet as.
Just grab another 3.5" drive for $5-10, will be sweet as.
Tr3vor
Experienced Member
Wait, how is that? isn't the voice coil the cause of the singing? don't MFM hard drives use stepper motors for the heads? or is it the spindle that does that? hmm...
yeah I think I'll save up for a similar WDC drive.
Yeah, this kinda sucks, cuz I'm sort of attatched to this drive, this computer doesn't sound right without that certain HDD in there... oh well, better get used to it.
yeah I think I'll save up for a similar WDC drive.
Yeah, this kinda sucks, cuz I'm sort of attatched to this drive, this computer doesn't sound right without that certain HDD in there... oh well, better get used to it.
Chuck(G)
25k Member
My understating is that it's the spindle motor control that causes the music, but that's just an educated guess.
Tr3vor
Experienced Member
Well, I got home and decided to start playing around with the hard drive.
So I stuck it in another computer, where the drive would have a vertical orientation (with the plugs facing up), and it started up with a regular seek test, no clicking, so I restarted it like 3 or 4 times and it had no klink sound. so then I went ahead and hooked up the ide cable and stuff up to that computer (a P3 emachines eMonster). I tried running some tests in a program called PCPRO, and the failed on this computer, and some even resulting in the click of death... scared the shit out of me. so I restarted the computer and it works again. then the pcpro made it do the click of death again.
So then I went back to my Pentium computer, where the drive would have a horizontal orientation and plugged it in, and it hasn't done the clink since, and I've rebooted this thing like 5 times. I ran PCPRO again and it passed all of the tests that it failed while in the vertical orientation, and now its just sitting here running as it should. but the seek test takes a tiny bit longer than usual to complete, not as in slower, but longer.
This is making me curious... and still no bad sectors...
So I stuck it in another computer, where the drive would have a vertical orientation (with the plugs facing up), and it started up with a regular seek test, no clicking, so I restarted it like 3 or 4 times and it had no klink sound. so then I went ahead and hooked up the ide cable and stuff up to that computer (a P3 emachines eMonster). I tried running some tests in a program called PCPRO, and the failed on this computer, and some even resulting in the click of death... scared the shit out of me. so I restarted the computer and it works again. then the pcpro made it do the click of death again.
So then I went back to my Pentium computer, where the drive would have a horizontal orientation and plugged it in, and it hasn't done the clink since, and I've rebooted this thing like 5 times. I ran PCPRO again and it passed all of the tests that it failed while in the vertical orientation, and now its just sitting here running as it should. but the seek test takes a tiny bit longer than usual to complete, not as in slower, but longer.
This is making me curious... and still no bad sectors...
krebizfan
Veteran Member
Depending on how WD implemented bad sector replacement/relocation, you might not see any bad sectors until the disk runs out of spare sectors.
Ole Juul
Veteran Member
You can buy thin walled socket drivers. I just took a regular one and ground it down a bit so it would go in the hole of a model M. A cheap one from the dollar store is probably easier to grind and nothing lost.
SpidersWeb
Veteran Member
Looking inside wont tell you anything btw, any faults will be invisible to the human eye and then it likely wont work when you put the cover back on (depends on how dusty the room is and on how dependant the drive is to the torque on the cover/headstack screws). Opening a hard drive is something you do when it's 100% buggered or you really don't care about it.
Tr3vor
Experienced Member
He's talking about my IBM Model M problem
the only hdd I'd take apart is a 100% click of death victim with no hope of survival. I wouldn't take this WDC apart even if it did have the click of death.
the only hdd I'd take apart is a 100% click of death victim with no hope of survival. I wouldn't take this WDC apart even if it did have the click of death.
SpidersWeb
Veteran Member
oh whoops, nevermind me then, I wasn't here
I have a keyboard drama also - been putting it off - my plan is to replace the cable and if that fails, try and replace the chip, if that fails I'll just go cry.
Hopefully yours is just the cable or a dodgy connection.
I have a keyboard drama also - been putting it off - my plan is to replace the cable and if that fails, try and replace the chip, if that fails I'll just go cry.
Hopefully yours is just the cable or a dodgy connection.
Tr3vor
Experienced Member
could it just be caps, are there caps in Model M keyboards? it works 100% besides the lights...