Running drive opened

[Jakub Pelc]

Hi,

Is there any possibility of running old WD300 hard drive when it's open? Drive has the old type 40-pin connector.

[Crunchy Dragon]

It'll run, I can't say in what condition. It's open already, might as well give it a try.

[RollTime]

If you do it, film it and upload it please!

[Husky]

The platters will spin, the actuator arm will probably just click and click and click and click. Once a hard drive is opened, it is destroyed. I have opened drives in the past just to mess around and the longest I had one work under load while defragging random files was for 5 minutes until it froze and started clicking.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Husky said:

The platters will spin, the actuator arm will probably just click and click and click and click. Once a hard drive is opened, it is destroyed. I have opened drives in the past just to mess around and the longest I had one work under load while defragging random files was for 5 minutes until it froze and started clicking.

Hey, you can make your own floppotron with it though.

 

 

[Dujith]

7 minutes ago, Jakub Pelc said:

Drive has the old type 40-pin connector.

I feel so old now, my first thought was "what is so old about an IDE connection"  

And like Husky said, it will die fast if it even runs. A small amount of dust will kill the heads quickly

[Husky]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Hey, you can make your own floppotron with it though.

 

 

I love the Floppotron! I might just gather a bunch of old floppy drives and HDDs and try to make one, looks difficult to "compose" music for it though lol

[bcredeur97]

5 minutes ago, Husky said:

The platters will spin, the actuator arm will probably just click and click and click and click. Once a hard drive is opened, it is destroyed. I have opened drives in the past just to mess around and the longest I had one work under load while defragging random files was for 5 minutes until it froze and started clicking.

Not necessarily true.

I've actually opened a drive who's head didn't park correctly, quickly and carefully knocked it to the right place, and was able to continue using it for a while. though I was reluctant to put anything important on it after that.

[Husky]

Just now, bcredeur97 said:

Not necessarily true.

I've actually opened a drive who's head didn't park correctly, quickly and carefully knocked it to the right place, and was able to continue using it for a while. though I was reluctant to put anything important on it after that.

Yeah, you could actually fix drives temporarily by doing that, just need to be very careful not to disturb the dust in the air too much. It is just very risky and the chances of a dust particle landing on the platter surface is extremely high since there are millions of dust particles per square meter of air. I fixed a drive that had heads stuck once just by hitting it quite hard against a desk, didn't open it though.

[vanished]

You can do it but unless you have a high grade clean room like the driversavers video showed, expect it to fail when dust inevitably gets in the wrong place

 

[Canada EH]

TY for the post, I have never seen a HDD opened before, be cool to see what 7200rpm looks like.

[Jakub Pelc]

45 minutes ago, RollTime said:

If you do it, film it and upload it please!

Okay, I'll try

[FuzzyLogic]

4 minutes ago, Jakub Pelc said:

Okay, I'll try

I hope you're joking, opening up a hard drive is an easy way to destroy it forever.

[640-XIII]

To be honest it looks awesome to see a hdd open while working but this is also a good way to destroy the drive forever so i suggest that you close the drive as fast as possible.

[RollTime]

On 4/13/2018 at 3:11 PM, Jakub Pelc said:

Okay, I'll try

though if you don't want it do die, don't.