every spinning hard drive has air filter and goes out through hole, the original purpose to manage air pressure inside hard drive and other cases if hard drive exposed and dust falling in, air filter will trap dust in there

something was living in it and immediately died and vaporized once he opened the drive

The filter traps any small particulates that might be left on the drive platters after manufacture. Even modern magnetic hard drives have them, they're just a lot smaller 😊

Air is needed so that a thin air cushion can develop itself between the heads and the platters when they're spinning at full speed. Is that air cushion that prevents the heads touching the platters while the drive is running, making the heads literally flying over the platters' surfaces. An internal air filter is needed to keep the atmosphere inside the disk's chamber as clean as possible, and on a lot of drives you can see a very little hole on the cover to allow the internal air pressure to equalize itself to the external environment's one. Hard drives aren't under vacuum, this is a common misconception, and the fact that they need air to work is one of the reasons for which hard drives can't be used in satellites, space probes, etc.

Modern hard drives as well, just smaller

The wonderfull sound of a crashed read/write head... :-)

@@thiesenf I have the slightest impression we are defining "wonderful" in a slightly different way :D

@@ferrari2k Oooooh... my sarcastic skills are increasing I think... hehehehehehe

You mean, "Imagine manually kickstarting pc components"

@@olimpather yes

Amiga kickstart moment

It'd be wilder if that were the case and they would have a kickstarter hanging out instead of having to open the thing first

Thanks for sharing!

Me too

Came from the story that bedirhan arı suggested to watch ibm hard drive and saw you again, hello

@@ally4n Gang

Not a mainframe drive at all

It's not rated for 10MB, it's probably a 5MB platter with 2.5MB per side, but that is with the MFM format. RLL would give you 50% increase in storage to 15MB. Modern encoding probably wouldn't work with the thickness of the disk and with the coercivity of the material.

@@AiOinc1 daymmnn

I thought it would be fun so I did that. Here's a link to the new video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aKeFZtF1qdarYYE.html

@@tombilan dead hard disk. crash head

@@tombilan Oh YEAH

Yeah

Yeah, he toasted the drive with whatever he did.

I swear I've been doing this too long, I was about to ask how you got a Conner SCSI disk working on a PS4

Nevermind. It's an IMI. I recognize it now.

It's an International Memories Inc. model 5012H. I guess it has the same geometry as an ST-412 so it's essentially a clone of the ST-412.

Probably still data on it definitely does not work you can hear the head crash

Thats because it is

No, Seagate. Not WD. :-) (I’m kidding of course. The controller probably is by WD.)

@@nickwallette6201 you don't know what WD40 is 😂

@@nickwallette6201 not a Seagate either lol, it's an IMI

You’ve really got an obsession with Apple, don’t you? You just go around commenting this on every old tech video you watch. Maybe just don’t use one and move on with your life?

@@nickwallette6201 How about you stop sponsoring a company that holds back technology and jacks up prices on not only Apple products but also everything else. Then I'll stop.

Sponsoring? OK. Look, your one-man campaign against the dastardly evil of a company that dares to turn a profit in a world of razor thin margins.. it’s not saving humanity. It’s not clever. It’s just obnoxious. There are actual problems in the real world. Why do you need to pick a fight with a tech company for .... I dunno... existing? Every tech video, whether it has any relevance or not, has some yahoo with the “hur hur Apple hur hur” nonsense. It’s just ridiculous. Can you imagine if someone just randomly blanketed the comments section with “I hope you’re not wearing Nike shoes because .. they cost a lot and therefore everybody should be chided for not hating them.” Grow up.

@@nickwallette6201 couldn’t say it better myself

Uhhh... what does that have to do with hard drives? While I may not like apple products I don't need to go in every youtube comment section just to insult the people that like their products.