Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB (2009) - Hard Drive Sounds

A 1TB Samsung unit I purchased new back in 2009, which ran alongside a similar 750GB unit. This one still works great to this day, being from a manufacturer now lost to time (and Seagate).

I ran Windows Vista on it for several years, past the point of Windows 7 being the most popular OS of the period, to this day I'm not sure why I never decided to upgrade. Although, Vista past RTM going into SP2 is a pretty good OS in my opinion.

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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Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ
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Capacity 1TB
Mfc Date 2009-03
Format 3.5"
Interface SATA
Platters 3
Heads 6
Cache 32MB
RPM 7200
Protocol Serial-ATA/300
Origin China (SAE-Magnetics)
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Thanks for checking out the video.

Chapters:
0:00 Startup & Spin-down
0:22 Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 Demonstration
1:53 Random Seek Test
2:52 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: 2023-04-26