vivetronic hard drive - heard of this? or used this?

[partha108]

I ordered one CCTV kit. ideally they should not have sent hard drive as it is not listed in their description. but they sent it . I got vivetronic hard drive , made in malaysia. 

do anyone have any knowledge about it? when I googled it lists hitachi/hgst ? Is it linked to it? if anyone has any experience with it let me know 

[da na]

Welcome to the forums!
That is an extremely reliable HGST design. I am using a similar model of HGST drive in my NAS currently. It's a "White Label" drive, meaning HGST makes it but doesn't sell it under their name. A couple image results also look like Barracuda 7200.10.

[BondiBlue]

Can you post a picture of the actual drive? It appears to be a white label drive, and the drives I'm seeing online are from several different manufacturers. Without a picture we can't say for sure what drive you actually have, and what manufacturer it actually came from. 

[partha108]

[BondiBlue]

10 hours ago, partha108 said:

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Yep, this is a Seagate drive of some kind. 

[partha108]

6 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Yep, this is a Seagate drive of some kind. 

Thank you. how do you actually find them ? 

[Needfuldoer]

26 minutes ago, partha108 said:

Thank you. how do you actually find them ? 

Pretty much all you can do is visually compare it with known drive models.

 

Your drive in particular looks a lot like an old Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST1000-something. The advertised 128 megs of cache matches that line, too.

 

I highly doubt that drive was manufactured in 2022, though. It's probably a retired server hard drive that's been recertified, cleaned up, and had a new sticker put on it. Check the S.M.A.R.T. data if you can, if it hasn't been wiped it can tell your how many hours it's been running over its lifetime. That's very common with these no-name secondary market hard drives.

 

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[partha108]

so, is this a new one from manufacturer or likely a used one?

[Blue4130]

27 minutes ago, partha108 said:

Thank you. how do you actually find them ? 

There are only three companies that make harddrives now. Seagate, wd and Toshiba. Any other brand is using one of these companies. 

[Needfuldoer]

2 minutes ago, partha108 said:

so, is this a new one from manufacturer or likely a used one?

I'm 99% positive it's a recertified drive that came out of a server in its past life. That's very common with these secondary market, no-name hard drives.

 

Check the SMART data with a tool like CrystalDiskInfo. If it wasn't wiped by the company that recertified the drive, it will tell you what it actually is and how long it's been running.

 

Note that this doesn't necessarily mean this is a bad hard drive, it's just not a new hard drive.

 

These little punch marks usually encode the original manufacturing date, but I can't read them in your photo:

 

They're part of the aluminum body, which is much more difficult to alter than just slapping a new sticker on the top, so they might still be "correct" from the original factory.