So this is a drive NEC actually manufactured! IBM allowed them to produce drives using their designs, so this is a product of that deal! ExcelStor later took over the deal when NEC departed from the industry. It's an interesting part of history!

@@bigbluebananabread Thank you.

It's certainly a very flashy thing! Can't say I've seen any other gold 2.5" drive, so it's really a stunner! If only it truly was pure gold hahaha

It's a Dell OEM unit! Used for one of their many enterprise machines presumably.

Yeah this thing is really quiet! I'm amazed I was able to find one working, it's a shame they're so impossibly hard to find. Best of luck with hunting for one, hopefully one will pop up for a good price! They're really quite beautiful drives!

If you make it skip the disk size check with a compact RTM install it can squeeze onto a 40MB drive! It's certainly not a great experience, but it's just nice for the sounds it makes.

RTM can install on a 40MB drive without issues when using the /ID setup switch which skips the disk space check. Are you suggesting it's not actually running 95 in the video or were you just curious how it managed to fit?

so true

Thanks so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it!! I need a lot of creativity to find good backgrounds for each video now, but it's quite fun in all honesty!

@@doomer37 Truly a lovely model!!

@@cezarymuchowiecki8748 Sadly, this one is a bit too old for that!

Nope. Its so old it doesnt have smart.

@@notsoseagatey okay

I've only heard bad things personally, but who knows honestly! I've definitely wondered that myself. Shame to be honest, hard to find for sure :(

Vista as a whole, particularly SP2, were released after this drive was manufactured. I usually try to keep the OS demo's to be as close as possible to the manufacture date of the drive. While I can't always do this perfectly, this is one of those cases where I did my best with it! Although, perhaps something older than SP3 would have been wise.

It's a quiet seeker! Also quite bassy, which doesn't help.

Yup, the two main ones are Disk Central (run by DiskMaster) and Hard Drive Hub (run by XLTech)

There are two main public servers I can think of, so I'll address them below: The first: discord.com/invite/yaV52cx3YZ - it has a few creators in it and quite a few others who are into all sorts of drives. Many people who comment on my videos can be found in there, so if you're into voice-coil stuff it's a good place to talk about it. If you're into really old drives, like stepper-based drives and things more from the late-80's and early 90's (which to be honest seems to be the main audience for this server), then you also have this one from DiskMaster's channel: discord.com/invite/ZaFgvkgBsv Hope this helps! Sorry for the late reply!

@@bigbluebananabread no problems thank!

Sadly, it was my camera at the time. It was on its last legs, which is why my newer videos use a capture device instead, since the purple light issues were a problem!

An unfortunate head crash!!

Wow, amazing find, that's super cool! Do you happen to have a link or PDF of what you found? Would absolutely love to see it! (also possible on discord!)

That's amazing to hear! I'm very glad you were able to find something that nice, since I remember you mentioning before that it's pretty difficult in your location to find anything reasonable. No bads and great exterior condition? Can't get better!

That's probably because the cover is off so the top of the headstack isn't supported. WDs will do this if run without the cover too, at least the ones that even work at all like that.

​@@aprilkolwey4779 Seems to do its seektest. Its unusable so seems to click like arnolds old CT210

But then it seems to be doing file access rwad only from timestamps

According to the guy on discord he was only able to get 2 files on it before the drive gave up. Now its fully dead

i have a 32 mb hard drive ;)

@@Mathmos252 god damn, from when? I'm assuming before the 90s

@@nnasosss february 1989 , its a stepper based fujitsu m227d2. I dont know its condition yet , but i opened it and it looked very good. so i suppose that its in good condition ;) i will get an mfm controller soon and ill fully test it

Sadly, it has so many bad sectors that I can barely manage to put a very small partition on it. The seek test is pretty much all it can do now, aside from some very basic reads. Writing isn't possible anymore sadly.

It truly makes me like it even more than many of my other drives! The fact that this one looks so bad and has nothing wrong with it is amazing... Truly one of those moments which shows some of the worst looking drives can work great, but many cosmetically perfect drives can be totaled!

Huge bummer! They're really nice. Did you hold on to the rest of the drive? Shame about the board on that one, finding a new one with damage like that would certainly be tough regardless.