how reliable is an Old Hardrive thats never been used?
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The Original Ralph
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if the bearings are lubed like on mechanical watches, the best lubricants are dried out in 7-8 years -
if you can get to the bearings with a syringe with some thin oil, and i mean thin as water, and get a small small drop of a thin synthetic oil into the bearing, it's worth a shot
i've saved 4 old electric motors, (one was a $400 furnace blower motor) that way
fwiw
if you can get to the bearings with a syringe with some thin oil, and i mean thin as water, and get a small small drop of a thin synthetic oil into the bearing, it's worth a shot
i've saved 4 old electric motors, (one was a $400 furnace blower motor) that way
fwiw
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Well, there are a few things to consider with an old hard drive like that. Spindle speed is one, corrupt discs can lead to a slow drive. The interface can be slow. I'd use something like HD Tune Pro to check it. That's just my favorite program to check a HDD. You can also use Crystal Disk Info, to get the smart information off of it, and Crystal Mark Test to see how fast it's actually running at. A drive with that low of hours should be good to go for a while, but at that age I can't see it being a very large disk, or very fast. Even if it was when it came out, things have changed so much in the last decade that against a newer HDD it'll probably lag noticeably behind.
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