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Audio/Video: normal work or malfunction

Audio and video fragments presented below will help you to define whether your hard drive sounds good or bad indicating possible severe situation. Launch appropriated video! See inside the drive and be involved and impressed.

HDD normal initialisation:

Seagate ST3630A	Quantum FB ST

Sound only:	Sound only:
Download video (MPEG, 877 Kb); audio (MP3, 194 Kb)	Download video (MPEG, 895 Kb); audio (MP3, 193 Kb)

If heads of your drive run bad:

Quantum FB ST	IBM WD-L42

Sound only:	Sound only:
Download video (MPEG, 925 Kb); audio (MP3, 204 Kb)	Download video (MPEG, 789 Kb); audio (MP3, 203 Kb)

Notice: Any attempt to open HDD cover in unclean athmosphere may lead to the serious malfunction due to the dust presence and possible unrecoverable damaging of major of drive dust sensitive components. These video fragments were recorded in our clean room where our guys like 'open-heart-operation-surgeons' work with open drives.