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Yesterday I showed a 4TB WD green with signs of a head crash, small scratch around the edge of the disk.

 

Now explain this one, seagate:

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Head on the back of the disk had the same fault...

Model ST3250310CS for those wondering.

  1. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    Some of Seagate's older hard drives had a hard coating on the head that was prone to flaking off, that seems like that might be what we are seeing.

  2. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    looks like that thing got left out in the rain with no air filter

  3. iamdarkyoshi
  4. iamdarkyoshi

    iamdarkyoshi

    @DrMacintosh The internal air filter is totally clogged with all the head dust lol

  5. Skanky Sylveon
  6. FloRolf

    FloRolf

    I'm no specialist on HDDs but I'm pretty sure it isn't supposed to look like that. 

  7. seagate_surfer

    seagate_surfer

    Oh God, but where did you have that installed? I looked for it to see what it was and it looks like it was an OEM SATA 2 HDD, not much to say about it, or the age or handling... 

  8. Jtalk4456
  9. iamdarkyoshi

    iamdarkyoshi

    @seagate_surfer I'm recycling about 100kg of accumulated scrap hard drives from work for the aluminium, and it appeared that this and an identical one were the original drives from our noname security camera DVR at work. Not a nice environment to be honest, no cooling fan and constant writing. Though the other identical drive still seemed to work.

     

    It could very well have been from somewhere else, but I only found two of these OEM units in the whole lot, and the DVR has space for dual HDDs. This one had "DVR BAD" written on the top of it.

     

    I plugged it in, and the controller didn't seem to care that the heads were now dust, the motor just stayed running

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