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Conner CFS420A Hard drive sounds (Remade)
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Күн бұрынFirst appearing in 1994, the CFS420A was Conner's 3,600RPM "420MB" entry and competed with similar offerings from Maxtor with the 7420AV, Western Digital with the Caviar 2420, Seagate with the Medalist 425xe (ST3491A), and Quantum with the ProDrive LPS 420AT, among others.
According to the March 15, 1994 issue of PC Magazine, MegaHaus was selling this drive for $329 ($668 in 2023 dollars).
DRIVE VITALS:
Interface: IDE
Form factor: 3.5" slimline
Capacity: 406.55MiB
Platters: 2, Heads: 4
RPM: 3,600
Cache buffer: 64KiB
Date: November 1994 (44th week)
My example is not very healthy. Its myriad of many reallocated or bad sectors caused many failed Windows install attempts.
Windows install notes:
It would take several attempts to get any version of Windows successfully installed on this drive. I would format the drive and copy the install files from the Windows disc before each attempt. The Windows 98 SE setup process would freeze either with a hard drive-related error or freeze with 7 minutes of estimated setup time remaining. A trial run of installing Windows 95 OSR2 would be successful. However, in the two failed attempts I recorded, it froze just after the license agreement screen both times. That made me think that somewhere a bad sector (or multiple) was causing the freezes. So, I decided to try Windows 98 RTM (which takes less space than 98 SE), and after a successful trial install, I recorded what would be another successful install (and the one you see in this video). It took a whopping 46 minutes between the time I pressed ENTER to start Setup and the time the system rebooted the second time (signifying the end of Setup). As part of the issues the drive had to deal with, it took 16 minutes to advance the "Estimated time remaining" from 7 minutes to 6 (which I cut out of the video). This is why I also believe an MHDD scan doesn't tell the full story on the health of this drive. Some of the long pauses were left in so you can see and hear what the drive was doing when dealing with its bad sectors.
Other Conner CFS420A videos:
@steeviebops Conner CFS420A video: • Conner Peripherals CFS...
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0:00 Drive startup
0:10 HDmotion run
2:15 Speedsys run
3:59 Windows 98 RTM Install
34:04 Drive shutdown
@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын
Always liked this era of Conner's, particularly with both these and the smaller counterpart CFS210A's. It's a shame to hear this one isn't in the happiest of shape's though, I think they sound really great! Certainly an unwieldly amount of time spent installing 98, hopefully the drive hangs-on for the long-term. Curious issues, that's for sure!
@its_chaudev Жыл бұрын
Good Bro! i love old hard drive
@XLGaming Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite drives. This is the larger version of the CFS210A, which i have used. Great drives, though this one isnt doing so great apparently. These are very slow drives for the time. Hell, my caviar 140 is comparable in speed and its from 1991
@Geforcefly Жыл бұрын
I remember the WD Caviars always being at or near the top in their class in regards to performance, regardless of spindle speed and cache buffer size. That's why the first two drives I ever bought were the 1210 and 2540 because of how fast they were versus the competition.
@XLGaming Жыл бұрын
@@Geforcefly caviars might have been rewlly fast, but these conners were pretty slow for their time (the cfs210a and cfs420a at least)
@NSHG 6 ай бұрын
I have a CFA270A here. Have you ever had one of those CFA's write protect themselves? The one I have will complain about being write protected for some reason.
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