Maxtor Atlas 10K V 8J300S0 300GB (2006) - Hard Drive Sounds

Описание: The Atlas 10K V's are pretty famous for their crazy initialisation sequence, so here's the full-capacity 300GB option from 2006. It features four platters & eight heads, the seek-test length correlates with the total head-count present. It's not that loud when in-operation, aside from random seeking (which enterprise units are consistently ultra loud with).

This one has over 60k hours on the clock, but it still works fine. One of the inductors is totally smashed on the board, so usually it requires a restart before my controller detects it. It works fine after that, requiring power applied for a period of about 10-15 seconds before it drifts into a ready state. In its current condition, it's limping along marginally. I'll fix it one day...

Controller: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9264-8i

As usual, I went into more detail about this drive on my site post, which you can find here (with pictures): https://bananahdd.nl/index.php/2023/0...

Drive Attributes
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Maxtor Atlas 10K V 8J300S0
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Capacity 300GB
Mfc Date 2006-09-04
Format 3.5"
Interface SAS
Platters 4
Heads 8
Cache 16MB
RPM 10000
Protocol SAS-1/300
Origin Singapore (MXT)
Codename Genesis
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Thanks for checking out the video.

Chapters:
0:00 Startup & Spin-down
0:36 Windows Server 2008 R2 Demonstration
2:34 Random Seek Test
3:46 File Access/Transfer
4:06 Spin-down (final)

Recorded with a Shure SM58. Gain is +20dB, 5cm recording distance.
Recording procedure: https://bananahdd.nl/index.php/about/
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Date of recording: 2023-07-02