Seagate ST3290A hard drive internal view

I have a bunch of older stuff I recorded on my PC/Phone, and this is one of these older recordings, from September 2023...
This drive is the one that was in this video here : • I saved these 7 vintag...
It has a lot of bad sectors, and I have multiple drives of the same model that work just fine. I don't really like how I moved a lot when I recorded that thing, but whatever it's probably worth sharing anyways. I guess I could always open it again if it's a big issue (but it probably isn't)
It is demonstrated booting Windows 95, then doing HDMotion and speedsys.

[@bigbluebananabread]

Speedsys is always so nice to see on an open drive!

[@arnlol]

Yes it is, and because the first part is just seek commands it will still look nice even on a drive that has a lot of bad sectors!

[@aspinx]

It's great to see what the drive is actually doing when hdmotion is running. Thanks!

[@arnlol]

Yes it’s really nice. If you want to see hdmotion running on an open drive I’ve done that multiple times before, and there’s a bunch of videos from other people too.

[@patg108]

old hdd still got it, it still functions :) now seal it back up!

[@arnlol]

I recorded this in 2023, and put the cover back on as soon as I was done. This exemple has a bunch of bad sectors and I have 3 more drives of the exact same model that are working perfectly with no bads in my collection, which is why I even opened that one to begin with.

[@Mathmos252]

👍

[@luisdbr9885]

Hi Arnold0, thanks for helping me with HDmotion, I used it and it’s really cool!!! How do I run Speedsys and where do I install it?

[@arnlol]

I got it out of Phil's computer lab dos benchmark pack. I just copied speedsys.exe out of the pack onto a dos floppy and run that.

[@notsoseagatey]

​@@arnlol i also found version 4.70 somewhere online, i have both speedsys and hdmotion in a folder somewhere

[@Mathmos252]

just like hdmotion , you look the file online , move it in your dos device and execute it by entering "speedsys"

[@SollaxxScape]

you should make another spin ups and down of your recent HDD collection in my opinion

[@arnlol]

I am planning to do that, I recorded some of the drives, but my collection is over 400 drives now so that takes a while, but yeah it will eventually happen, just not sure on when.

[@SollaxxScape]

@@arnlol ooo nicee I hope it will be out anytime!

[@uc8tv]

Did you put the cover back on? Or did ya scrap it? Or did it get the open drive cover?

[@arnlol]

I put the cover back on the drive. I’m not scrapping a drive unless it’s completely dead (which this one isn’t)

[@luisdbr9885]

Hi Arnold0 great video! I have a question... how do I install hdmotion on msdos??

[@arnlol]

You don’t need to install anything, you just need to copy hdmotion.exe on a DOS boot floppy and once in dos run hdmotion 0x80 (for the first drive, 0x81 for the second etc)

[@redmajors2436]

oh there is this stuff called dust not good

[@arnlol]

Yes that’s why I don’t open my drives that are fully working, but older drives like these don’t care that much. This one has a lot of bad sectors, and I have 3 more of the same model fully working, that’s why I opened it to demonstrate it.

[@whatteverr]

so as per your experience which is best for backup data for longtime? HDD or SSD | 2.5inch sata? any specific brand?

[@arnlol]

My collection is mostly of old drives. I don’t have a lot of modern drives and not much experience with them. I personally went for cheap used drives and copied the data I want to keep on 3 different drives so if one fails it doesn’t really matter. I think having multiple copies is the best solution if possible regardless of the drives being used? If you want some information about modern drives I know backblaze makes annual reports about the drives they use in their company.