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My brother found this HDD in a TV box on a scrapyard what are the chances it would work? Also why does it say video HDD?

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If it has SATA, it should work.

Whether you should trust it as a drive of yours? Not sure. Best case scenario it works, worst case scenario it has a virus on it infecting your PC. Another scenario is it just breaking (or being broken already).

 

The reason it says "video" is because there are different classes of hard drives. This one being meant for video surveillance servers, akin to WD Purple or Seagate Surveillance/Skyhawk (I think Skyhawk is their video drives nowadays..).

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10 minutes ago, Kanna said:

My brother found this HDD in a TV box on a scrapyard what are the chances it would work?

It's worth a shot, it being from a scrapyard means it could have been tossed around so definitely check the health of it with CrystalDiskInfo and listen for any weird noises indicating it might have been dropped and damaged. Even if it shows good health and there are no weird noises, I would still be wary of storing any data you care about on it. 

10 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Also why does it say video HDD?

I think that's just the model name, similar to WD's Purple Surveillance drives. They are marketed for use in an NVR/DVR.

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I mean if it has SATA it might, plug it in and see what kind of funky noise it makes I guess. Probably slow as shit in reads but if it's not broken and has SATA it should work

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39 minutes ago, minibois said:

If it has SATA, it should work.

Whether you should trust it as a drive of yours? Not sure. Best case scenario it works, worst case scenario it has a virus on it infecting your PC. Another scenario is it just breaking (or being broken already).

We will try it in my old 755 PC running mint, the drive looks to have a sata judging by another image

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41 minutes ago, The_russian said:

 

It's worth a shot, it being from a scrapyard means it could have been tossed around so definitely check the health of it with CrystalDiskInfo and listen for any weird noises indicating it might have been dropped and damaged. Even if it shows good health and there are no weird noises, I would still be wary of storing any data you care about on it. 

Gonna test it in a throwaway PC running mint, does Crystal disk mark even display health on HDDs or does it even run on linux

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23 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

I mean if it has SATA it might, plug it in and see what kind of funky noise it makes I guess. Probably slow as shit in reads but if it's not broken and has SATA it should work

Why would reads be shit?

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6 hours ago, Kanna said:

Gonna test it in a throwaway PC running mint, does Crystal disk mark even display health on HDDs or does it even run on linux

I don’t think there is a Linux version. GSmartControl looks like an alternative, but I’ve never personally used it. 

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