ST3000DM001

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Post by userbinator » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 4:43 AM UTC

ST3000DM001
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#2

Post by rektide » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 4:49 AM UTC

I could have sworn it was a similar 1.5TB drive that most infamous. Ah well.

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Post by shric » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:01 AM UTC

Yeah, I bought 8 of these back in the day for two RAID servers. I have one left that I haven't had to replace since.

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Post by LeoPanthera » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:01 AM UTC

I also remember the IBM Deskstar 75GXP, which was so unreliable it earned the nickname "Deathstar".

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Post by qbasic_forever » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:04 AM UTC

rektide wrote: post #2

I could have sworn it was a similar 1.5TB drive that most infamous. Ah well.

The IBM Deskstar drives from the early 2000's are the most infamous to me. I remember having to put one in the freezer for a bit in a last ditch attempt to get one more boot out of it and copy data off before it was lost for good. Early 2000's computer hardware in general was a total nightmare at times.

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Post by keanebean86 » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:06 AM UTC

I like to think the flood was a cover for some government buying a mind boggling quantity of hard drives. All for some massive spying operation. Obviously I have zero proof or even the tiniest bit of evidence. Just my personal conspiracy theory.

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Post by Justin_K » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:10 AM UTC

I still have my Amazon receipt for two of these where one failed within 2-3 years.

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Post by geocrasher » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:13 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #4

I also remember the IBM Deskstar 75GXP, which was so unreliable it earned the nickname "Deathstar".

I worked at a small web hosting company back then, and we used a bunch of IBM Deathstar's. They certainly lived up to their name! I disassembled one just to see what went wrong, and I found the cause (of that drive's failure, at least).

Here's a list of terms for reference: http://data-recovery-tips.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/h...

At some point, the bearing that serves as the pivot that the actuator arm and actuator attach to, is attached to the chassis of the hard drive with a bolt on the bottom of the drive. At that time, most drives also had a bolt that went through the cover. The Deathstar did not. It was only attached to the chassis. Which was fine, and that's the method commonly used since then. This particular drive had no thread lock on the bolt, and it had come loose, leading to a catastrophic head crash.

I don't know if other Deathstar's suffered the same fate for the same reason. The Wikipedia article on the subject says it was due to the magnetic coating of the platters coming off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar

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Post by Koiwai » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:14 AM UTC

Damn, I have a 12 disk RAID-Z2 with that, almost all of them failed in about 1~2 years, luckily because of Z2, I didn't lose any data.

I'll never buy seagate again.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 07, 2021, 5:14 AM UTC

keanebean86 wrote: post #6

I like to think the flood was a cover for some government buying a mind boggling quantity of hard drives. All for some massive spying operation. Obviously I have zero proof or even the tiniest bit of evidence. Just my personal conspiracy theory.

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