I got BRAND NEW 20+ years old Hard Drives, let's check them out!

[@tyta1]

Ah, there it is - the moment I enjoyed most while building a PC: Opening the antistatic bag of a brand-new hard drive 🤩

[@arnlol]

Yeah it’s pretty neat, and I guess even more so when the drive is 20+ years old. It’s really nice to see drives that are super clean like those

[@Jones5121]

wow never seem the IBM covers so ✨shiny✨

[@arnlol]

@@Jones5121 Yeah I'm definitely not used to seeing drives this clean, they look really really good

[@CEzikMaj]

That one drive waited 21 years for his big day just to be a horrible disaster, that's heartbreaking

[@arnlol]

@@CEzikMaj Yeah I know it’s just a mechanical device and I’m used to getting dead drives but that thought of it having sit for so long only for it to fail like this, knowing it will never be able to be used feels pretty bad.

[@jortor2932]

​@@arnlolwhat are u upto dude

[@bunter6]

Some quality ASMR unwrapping, most enjoyable.

[@arnlol]

Well it wasn't on purpose I must say but if you like it then why not I guess x)

[@EmptyMind-99]

This really puts emphasis on "new old stock". Around where I am I see more unopened HGSTs than any other brand, although I can't be bothered to pick any of them up. (Except the 4.5TB one I have, that came in stock packaging.)

[@arnlol]

I guess if they are branded HGST they must be a little newer at least, not too sure when Hitachi started just writing HGST on the drives. I think that 4.5 TB one that you have is pretty rare

[@EmptyMind-99]

@arnlol Yeah, they started doing it later in 2012. The HGSTs I see are mostly unused 7K4000's (HUS724045ALE640 is a 7K4000) and on occasion 7K6000's or some late 7K1000.C's.

[@pikakai]

Wonder how the third one had destroyed heads from the factory. Maybe misaligned and powering the drive did that?

[@arnlol]

@@pikakai I don’t know, my assumption is that it could be shipping damage or having been dropped, something very violent that misaligned the head and then when I powered it on it completely destroyed it.

[@SkyVids2003]

The cat got the zoomies 😂

[@arnlol]

@@SkyVids2003 Yeah he did, at the exact time I decided to spin that drive up otherwise it’s not funny right? x)

[@fadate7292]

0:50 I was looking for my cat... =))

[@arnlol]

Whoops, well that’s why I added the text about my cat making noise… Because of course he did right as I powered on that drive and there was no way for me to re-record the drive's first spin-up

[@oldschooldude8370]

Satisfying aside from the one Deathstar. I have a couple Maxtors & a WD from the early 00's that still work.

[@arnlol]

I have a lot of drives in my collection from the 90s and 2000s that still work, but obviously very few that are new (or well, were new I guess, they aren’t anymore now that I used them). I feel like hard drives are more resilient than what people think, especially the ones from the early 2000s and newer, there’s a LOT of 40, 80, 160GB drives that still work just fine.

[@adinnugroho6544]

2 HDDs made in 2002 (Before I was born) and 1 made in 2004 (I was 1 years old) 😅😅😅

[@arnlol]

Yep, always hard for me to think things from the early 2000s are aready 20+ years old... Time flies

[@gengar-1997]

4 Deskstars... two are by IBM, the others are by Hitachi... I'm gonna guess that IBM transferred ownership of the Deskstar name to Hitachi around 2003-ish?

[@arnlol]

@@gengar-1997 Yeah IBM sold their hard drive division to Hitachi back in the early 2000s. Some drives of the same models can be found both with the IBM and Hitachi branding.

[@masterkamen371]

IBM sold off their general use everything and retreated to making medium to large servers and mainframes. Hard drive and laptop businesses were pretty much burning money, they were never good at marketing to end users. The HDD business was particularly bad due to certain models having horrible reliability statistics.

[@arnlol]

⁠Well obviously they didn’t sell everything to the same company since the HDD division got sold to Hitachi and the laptops to Lenovo (probably not the same year as well?) Yeah the 75GXP debacle probably hurt IBM quite a bit, even though both their previous series and their newer ones were just fine, but their reputation certainly went down a lot with the 75GXP issues.

[@EvanPang-w4i]

I have a 160gb ibm deskstar just sitting in storage with no way to see if it works because I don’t have ide or molex connectors…

[@arnlol]

For a drive like that a cheap IDE to USB adapter should do just fine, there’s a lot of those things online

[@SrWolf90]

They were probably never sold because they were affected by the loss of the magnetic film on the discs.

[@arnlol]

Those are actually newer than the 75GXP and don’t really have that problem, but obviously the bad reputation that IBM got from the 75GXP debacle probably lasted for some time so maybe some people didn’t want an IBM drive even though there was nothing wrong with the newer ones

[@SrWolf90]

@@arnlol I thought they were from the same era, I have a 20GB one that is still alive, but it is not from the affected series. (it has around 24,000 poh)

[@maxtornogood]

Fancy the Hitachi Deathstar being DOA & not the original IBMs!

[@arnlol]

Well those IBMs are newer than the 75GXP and don’t have that issue anymore, the Hitachi must have been super mishandled in the past for that to have happened to it.

[@Antony_09]

is it normal if my usb 3.0 1tb 3.5 segate hard drive some times beeps under haeavy load?

[@Mathmos252]

It can be normal, but if you hear frequent screeching and the drive Is very slow, I suggest you check the smart and do a surface scan

[@Mathmos252]

Nice drives😊

[@HuSerrVVVF]

Probably it got dropped at some point, because that failure is quite rare for a new drive.

[@arnlol]

Yeah I assume that it was dropped/took a massive impact in the past. I originally thought of shipping damage but I think if the shipping was so bad to have caused this massive damage, the other ones also wouldn’t have done well, so something happening years ago seems more likely I guess.

[@davidrmcmahon]

I wonder what the most hours a drive has on it? Maybe something from the sixties still spinning in an abandoned government facility?

[@Antony_09]

an hdd in a pc used every day since the 2000s usually has the right amount of hours to fail

[@arnlol]

It’s hard to tell… The highest I’ve personally seen was just over 100.000 hours. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s drives in service somewhere with more than that.

[@randomyt666]

I seriously need to know how you find these beacause all I find on ebay is 500GB barracudas

[@windowsfan95]

I just typed in IBM Deskstar and several came up.

[@arnlol]

I found that lot on Leboncoin. It was pretty lucky though, I just searched for IBM hard drive and that lot showed up. Since leboncoin is a French website there’s less buyers than on eBay as well which probably helps a bit with the prices

[@notsoseagatey]

I found a NOS 75GXP 76.8GB on ebay for nearly 200 bucks haha

[@Mathmos252]

Thats so expensive

[@arnlol]

That’s way too expensive especially for a drive known to have reliability issues. Although it would be interesting to see if that would even scan perfect or not. I guess it would but who knows for how long.

[@notsoseagatey]

@arnlol To be fair since it is sealed ever since it left the factory it might scan fine

[@luisdbr9885]

Nice video!

[@arnlol]

Thanks!

[@masterkamen371]

I found a brand new 250 GB PATA drive from WD in storage recently, got it on my desk now. I thought about opening it, but is it really worth it nowadays? I have no use for another one, got dozens of them already. Ironically the Western Digitals have always had the worst reliability in my experience, got probably 30 dead ones on hand. Hitachi was crap as well. Seagate is indestructible, though I'd never buy a laptop drive from them.

[@arnlol]

Well up to you, but yeah a 250 GB from WD is probably super common (although the drives I opened in this video certainly aren’t rare either, but they are a little bit older) Interesting experience with drive reliability, I know some people who swear Seagate drives are garbage and they would never buy one… I guess everyone's experience is different.

[@kyiscray]

I think seagate is more reliable than wd, you just need to avoid buying the 7200.11, the st1000dm003, st2000dm001, st3000dm001, and any of those thin laptop drives with the sticker seal. Seagate is cheaper and faster and doesnt do anything sketchy with their external drive enclosures making them unusable when directly connected, so i buy from them.

[@TrailMaker66]

sounds so terrible😢 7:25