Failing Western Digital Enterprise WD5003ABYX Inside View

Описание: Health: FAILING / Not Usable
Manufacture Date: August 20th, 2013.
Capacity: 500GB
RPM: 7200RPM
Cache: 64MB
Platters: 1
Heads: 2

This one still sort of works, but cannot be formatted without error. The first few sectors of the drive are completely bad, which has resulted in the drive still somehow seeking normally, but being unusable to the system when trying to create a partition since track 0 is bad as well. Not sure what caused this, since after the bad area the drive is fine. If you are curious as to the S.M.A.R.T status of this drive, I was able to grab a screenshot of it although the drive often locks up for a long time.

After opening the drive, there is no visible damage. Maybe there is damage to the underside platter, but I could not see anything on the top platter that was alarming to indicate why the start of the drive is bad for the first few spots. Regardless, it is rather unfortunate if the hours this has is the true hours and the drive has failed so soon. Quite the typical design, and of course the drive kind of wants to work with the cover off but also does not act normally since the cover on these helps to allow the heads to presumably read and fly at the correct height over the platters.

Not really too interesting of a drive, but it is incredible to see the precision and care that went into the making of this drive from 2013. Simple, yet extremely complex and beautiful in its own way.

S.M.A.R.T Health, Scan, & Pictures of this drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...