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Does my super old hard drive actually work!?

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I just pulled an old 160gb seagate hard drive out of a mac from around 2003, the mac hasn't been used for years and I was surprised when the I plugged the drive into my pc and it spun up and worked! I had to format it with disk management, but after that it reads and writes just fine, about 60MBps in crystal disk mark, which seems really good for a 14 year old hard drive. I opened up crystal disk info to see the health status on the drive and my heart sank, it reads "bad" health status for the drive, and has a red dot next to start/stop count. What does this mean, is the hard drive ok to use? To me start/stop count seems like a fruitless way to tell how healthy a hard drive is, maybe I misunderstand what start/stop count means?  Also, the drive makes a reading/grinding noise every few seconds, that maybe indicates bad sectors, but the drive has no data on it. What are your opinions on this?

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Its going to die very soon so dont put anything important on it

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3 hours ago, Billy_Mays said:

Its going to die very soon so dont put anything important on it

I am not going to use it for anything, I just wanted to see if it would actually work.

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Just now, CasualGamer... said:

I am not going to use it for anything, I just wanted to see if it would actually work.

Well you found out what you wanted and dont use it for much longer and Im also surprised it works and is it SATA 1 or IDE?

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3 hours ago, Billy_Mays said:

Well you found out what you wanted and dont use it for much longer and Im also surprised it works and is it SATA 1 or IDE?

Its SATA 1. What does start/stop count mean? Does it mean what it sounds like, or something else?

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3 minutes ago, CasualGamer... said:

Its SATA 1. What does start/stop count mean? Does it mean what it sounds like, or something else?

It would sound like something spinning and stopping and doing that repeatedly

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3 hours ago, Billy_Mays said:

It would sound like something spinning and stopping and doing that repeatedly

I see. Everything else about the drive in CDI is healthy, I am just wondering what the "grinding" every few seconds means.

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I mean sure why wouldn't it work? I got drives from the 80's that are 25mb that still work. 

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3 hours ago, emosun said:

I mean sure why wouldn't it work? I got drives from the 80's that are 25mb that still work. 

Wow, they actually read and write just fine?

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3 minutes ago, CasualGamer... said:

Wow, they actually read and write just fine?

Yeah , granted they are much higher quality than a mid 2000's 160gb drive was.

you can use the drive you have as a shelf backup drive. better to have it saving SOMETHING than nothing at all

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3 hours ago, emosun said:

Yeah , granted they are much higher quality than a mid 2000's 160gb drive was.

you can use the drive you have as a shelf backup drive. better to have it saving SOMETHING than nothing at all

Yeah, I agree. I might use this one for backup, or maybe a backup of my backup xD

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