Western Digital Caviar collection - Spin up/down of 19 vintage hard drives

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Spin up & down of the 19 vintage Western Digital Caviar hard drives in my collection.
Dates: Jun 14, 1992 - Mar 13, 1998

Drives featured:
(in order from smallest to largest capacity)
Caviar 280
Caviar 1210
Caviar 2340 (x2)
Caviar 1365
Caviar 2420
Caviar 2540
Caviar 2700
Caviar 2850
Caviar 11000
Caviar 21000
Caviar 31200 (x2)
Caviar 21600
Caviar 22400 (x2)
Caviar 32500
Caviar 33100
Caviar 34300

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All Comments (15)

@antequated.archive 6 months ago

UPDATE: My Caviar 1365 died last night (1/28/24) and now has the click of death. RIP
@NSHG 2 months ago

Ah, the 2850. Finally found mine, has someone's 95 + DOS 6.22 install w/ Ontrack installed and IIRC, Volkov Commander as well. Funny fact: mine was refurbed from a 2700 apparently... I peeled the 2850 sticker and a crossed out 2700 sticker was underneath lol Speaking of old drives, one of the Quantum drives (a 635AT that came out of a Compaq, according to the stickers on it) I featured as having issues in my "HDD Collection" video kinda healed itself somewhat. HD Sentinel now reports 85% health, and it can access past 310MB without issues. A few sectors were relocated (yea, this thing supports SMART. Quite the surprise!) but nothing too bad. On the other hand, a Conner CFA270A has taken its "death" place. That thing has zero accessible sectors, despite completing seektest.
@XL-Tech 6 months ago

Caviars are some of my favorite drives. They sound great.
@windisk1112 6 months ago

Nice collection though!
@zUltraXO 2 months ago

I oddly enjoy these hard drives that have 2 "gears" like in a MT car
@cdos9186 6 months ago

Great video! I forgot the Caviar 22400 was even a model haha. All of these sound pretty great except for the 31200 that sounds like it is ready to blow the bearings apart and lock up, that is the worst I've seen almost like some pieces in the motor are misaligned. Another one of my favorites was the Caviar 11000, I've been trying to get one myself for awhile now with no luck. Really like that you showed the broken drives as well, nice job! All of these are in really nice physical shape too externally. Also that Caviar 22400 made on August 15th, looks like quality control was slacking quite a bit for part of the color on the stripe to run out and they still shipped it out lol.
@maxtornogood 4 months ago

I do like the style & seektest of these mid-90's Caviars!
@KliaTech 2 months ago

I had a caviar 33100 but it had a head failure. The disk had no bad sectors and no slow sectors.
@onfire4664 2 months ago

1:48 that sounds like my Toshiba 2.5 4200 rpm 1998 hard drive
@Mayst_e 5 months ago

31200 sounds like it's been used as a fryer for fries
@thegeforce6625 3 months ago

I like the sounds of the non-working 31200’s bearings, has a lot “deeper” sound than the other working one, maybe it’s been dropped and the bearing’s balls have dents on them?
@user-kito-bunbunkitofriend 6 months ago

My favorite drives are: 2:25 11000-1 Status: Good Problems: 0/100% Has a clock motor: Yes 3:39 22400-1 Status: Mediumly good Problems: 25.6/100% Has a clock motor: No 3:54 22400-2 Status: Good Problems: 0.1/100% Has a clock motor:No 4:39 33100-1 Status: Dangerous Problems: 80.0/100% Has a clock motor: Yes
@arnlol 6 months ago

That’s a pretty nice caviar collection! Hopefully you’ll be able to fix that 280, it’s a nice drive. The "bad" 31200 is mind blowing, how can the bearings be that bad but the drive still manages to spin and passes its seektest…
@windisk1112 6 months ago

Your 34300 has a PCB fault or stuck heads, not media failure.