Fujitsu MBA3300RC 300GB (2009) - Hard Drive Sounds

The series containing the MBA3300RC is Fujitsu's very last 3.5" line-up ever produced. The "MBA" series as a whole was available in several capacities, with this model being the highest capacity variant, all spinning at 15k RPM. This particular example was manufactured after Toshiba's agreement finalisation occurred with Fujitsu, with intent to acquire their hard drive business. Notably, the label states "Toshiba Corporation" on the right-hand side.

It's absolutely quite a neat drive, with exceptionally loud random seeking. Makes you think how Fujitsu's history would have gone, had they remained in the 3.5" consumer market...
Need I mention this example has 70k+ hours? Standard expectations from an enterprise SAS unit. It's in perfect health still nonetheless, fortunately.

Controller: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9264-8i

As usual, I went into more detail about this drive on my site post, which you can find here (with pictures): https://bananahdd.nl/index.php/2023/0...

Drive Attributes
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Fujitsu MBA3300RC
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Capacity 300GB
Mfc Date 2009-12
Format 3.5"
Interface SAS
Platters 4
Heads 8
Cache 16MB
RPM 15000
Protocol SAS-1/300
Origin Philippines (FCPP)
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Thanks for checking out the video.

Chapters:
0:00 Startup & Spin-down
0:39 Windows 2008 Server R2 Demonstration
2:26 Random Seek Test
3:44 File Access/Transfer
3:57 Spin-down (final)

Recorded with a Shure SM58. Gain is +20dB, 5cm recording distance.
Recording procedure: https://bananahdd.nl/index.php/about/
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Date of recording: 2023-07-01