Inside of Hard Drive

March 12th, 2010

Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. - Model: Quantum Bigfoot BF 1.2 GB Internal hard drive - 5.25″ x 1/4H - 3600 rpm - 16.6 mbps - EIDE/ATA-2 - General MPN: QM51280BF-AR Device Type: Hard drive - internal Width: 14.6 cm Depth: 20.3 cm Height: 1.9 cm Weight: 0.7 kg - Hard drive Form Factor: 5.25″ x 1/4H Capacity: 1.2 GB Interface Type: EIDE/ATA-2 Buffer Size: 128 KB Compliant Standards: SMART, 160-bit Reed Solomon ECC - Performance Drive Transfer Rate: 16.6 mbps (external) / 10.5 mbps (internal) Seek Time: 15.5 ms (average) / 30 ms (max) Track-to-Track Seek Time: 3.5 ms Average Latency: 8.3 ms Spindle Speed: 3600 rpm - Configuration Bytes per Sector: 512 - Reliability MTBF: 300000 hour(s) Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14 Start / Stop Cycles: 20000 - Expansion / connectivity Connections: 1 x storage - EIDE/ATA-2 - 40 PIN IDC Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 5.25″ x 1/4H - Environmental parameters Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C Humidity Range Operating: 5 - 85% Shock Tolerance: 10 g @ 11ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 70 g @ 11ms half-sine pulse (non-operating) Sound Emission: 34 dba Max Altitude Operating: 3 km ATTENTION: This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky.

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11 Responses to “Inside of Hard Drive”

  1. christiancapella1 on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    Deleting many folders i the startup of the drive moron!!!

  2. 30GB on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    that make one cool flywheel for my engines

  3. arnlol on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    your copy/paste look like clik of death :p

  4. joshuamarius on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    Thanks for posting a video response to my Inside of Hard Drive. I would suggest however that you change the title and also many of the words in the description…it’s pretty clear you copy/pasted off mine.

  5. desertman123 on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    LAWL that gave me a nice laugh.

  6. hmong337 on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    very cool video! 5 stars for taking the time to show us how this shit works.

  7. montzigner on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    That was cool now that I know how hard it works I wont leave my computer on all night ;)

  8. TheGreatestInsults on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    Wow. That 1.2gb harddrive is MASSIVE!

  9. MrPancakez on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    Cool. :)

  10. TheJustOneOnlyOne on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    Thanks man. I always wanted to see what’s going on inside :D

  11. WillP999 on March 12th, 2010 12:49 pm

    Always wondered what that looked like. Cool :)

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