Lovely set of drives! I'll never get tired of hearing a Deskstar.

17:28 Correction: The model number is actually HUA722050CLA330, I misread it at first because of the damaged label. Also that drive is now dead after more tests.

The ST3500413AS was manufactured in June of 2011. 2 of mine were manufactured in February of 2012. The DOM is next to the HDD Mfg by Seagate Technology LLC

Lovely drives! the Samsung HD753LJ sounds just like my HD103UJ 1TB version! it has a lot of data saved in so the seektest takes such a long time now lol the health is good but it kind of suffers from seektest. like it tries to do it and sometimes it tests without issues sometimes it takes longer to start the test. edit: seektest is like from HD502HJ but longer

You got a Maxtor DM 17! That is SATA, nice!

For Seagate you can look at Date code or DOM on some drive, usually the first 2 number of date code is year of manufacturing

5:02 the date code 11502 with the decoder means the drive was manufactured on 6/12/2011

1:01 the date code 07095 on the drive using a decoder means it was manufactured on 9/3/2006

I had this drive many years ago in my childhood but i destroyed it so badly back then 😔 5:41

I have That exact same maxtor 6E040T0 with pcb protection shield that is very rare to find these models with shields 4:13

5:55 I believe I see the code 11386 which means 3/24/2011

1:54 I wonder why Samsung was using pattern-based pulsing on their spindle motor on this one. Still sounds cool though!

Really u had use pipe meme sound in the end 🤣

6:31 the date code says 06111 which corresponds to 9/12/2005

6:30 This seagate drive is from 9-12-2005 according fron the date code

10:16 the ticking noises are normal, its the head unparking. my wd800 (same model as this one but two disks) also has the same exact ticking

5:51 i have lots of those Seagate ST31000523AS

7:51 the mfg is at the bottom of the drive and it says dec 18 2013

9:15 *wow* those are the worst bearings I’ve ever heard in a IC35 series drive

I had this Samsung drive 1:40 160gb version it was running so good and Solid for some reason after a while when i tried to run the drive the drive spin up in a weird way it does spin up but doesn't stop when it reaches at 7200rpm it Goes more than that like reaching to 10k+ rpm and doesn't seek test just keeps running and running and does nothing and. Never detects in pc Obviously it had problem with the pcb i tried to peek its components and end up burning motor ic by pressing the motor connectors (rest in peace 🕊️) At least drive must be ok mechanically but im curious for it bios swap cuz its in its main ic(if it is ok or not) it doesn't have 8 pin bios rom chip