Some battle scars remain, but a V1 is still a V1 even knee deep in the dead and a TNT is still a TNT under a foot of rubble. Today I took my sweet time and I've returned these two beauties to their original glory! I kept the PCB, the screws, the magnets and the rest went into the trash.Ĭase closed! I'm not keeping broken pieces of hardware and especially broken HDDs.ģdfx Voodoo 1 - Diamond Monster 3D PCI 4MB & Creative Labs Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT - CT6710 - 16MB AGP - IN THE HOUSE!!! The owner maybe didnt check the PCB or he tried to spin it by hand.etc etc etc. This was the motive that it looked strange with the removed metalic cover. I removed the PCB and after I saw burn marks I knew for sure it was done. I hooked it to a PSU and when I saw that the motor was not working I knew it was kind of done for. Seagate Medalist ST38420A - the situation wasnt pretty at all. I also ran Atto, and Roadkil's Disk Speed tests on Win 98SE. Look how nicely the read graph goes down and remember how it looked before. Next I took the HDD and I put it in the rack from the PIII-550 build and I ran three passes of HDD Regenerator. I ran a HDD Regenerator test on Win 10 to see the real state of the HDD. The files on the HDD were from 1999/2000 and they were ERADICATED! These delays were consistent and I was pretty sure that the years it stood in storage, a bad PSU, inadequate storage and other factors have made the HDD to not function properly. HDDScan has shown some sectors with delays.
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The most important fact is that it has no reallocated sectors and the motor works well.įirst, the HDD was put through several cycles of ERASE and VERIFY in HDD Tune, followed by another set of ERASE and VERIFY cycles in HDDScan 3.3 - on Windows 10. The tests were made using an Abit Serillel adapter, AT PSU, ExpressCard - eSATA card, on my Acer Aspire 5315 laptop. The read /write graphs in HDD Tune were kind of bad. Initial testing revealed some problems with the Quantum. Quantum TRAILBLAZER TRB850A is working fine but not all was smooth sailing. * Quantum TRAILBLAZER TRB850A / 840AT 850MB P/N TR84A011 Rev. If it wont work then we know why it looks like this.
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Seagate Medalist ST38420A - 8.6 GB - This is a case of an extremely curious individual or an uninformed one. Now I have TWO Quantum Trailblazers.special event for sure
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02-D - funny thing that when you want something, it comes when you least expect it, from someone you least expect it and sometimes in pairs.
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Quantum TRAILBLAZER 840AT - P/N TR84A011 Rev. The Quantum looks MINT and if it works as good as it looks, it will take the place of the other Quantum Trailblazer from the 5x86 build, as the latter has seen several hundred thousands of miles of usage and I want to protect it. I applied ORAFOL Film to temporary protect the platters and I also used a hair dryer to separate the metallic cover from the specifications sticker. Observe the pine tree and the read-write head reflection in the platter. That certain someone also removed the platter protectiom sticker. Someone separated the metallic glued top and now it was glued to the specifications sticker. When I saw the Seagate I said WTH! happened here. When I saw the HDDs in the flesh, I found out that one was a Quantum Trailblazer 850MB my first HDD, and the other was a Seagate Medalist ST38420A - 8.6 GB. When I heard the name of the first HDD I was about to receive, I was like this: Quantum (This sounds about right (raised eyebrow)), Trail.(WAIT, IT CANNOT BE!). But wait, there is a catch to this, apparently innocuous event! He He. Nothing to write home about, right? This is also exactly what I was thinking.