WTB: 4 SATA spinners from that drawer

honegod

honegod

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I got 2 x 4in3 drive cages and I want to stuff them full with 4 seriously cheap SATA drives to see if mine are going to fry their drives, as reviews indicate is possible, while keeping my new (8 x 14tb) in their shipping boxes.

3.5" don't care what size.
 
I have 4x 250 GB velociraptors. Make an offer. I have a few other oddball size is too. Just shoot me a message if you’re interested.
 
Mr34727 said:
Use HWMonitor to monitor temps instead?
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I am happy with my cooling solution, what I vant is to test is if the backplane is gonna literally burst into flames.
I already spotted a solder bridge on one of the drive connectors, fixed that.

But what did I miss, dunno, need to know.
 
peanuthead said:
I have 4x 250 GB velociraptors. Make an offer. I have a few other oddball size is too. Just shoot me a message if you’re interested.
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velociraptors are what I really wanted when I bought newly released 250gb western digital drives.

They just feel way too cool to use as sacrificial throwaways.

I was thinking along the lines of 5400 rpm, 80 tb, really useless yet fully functional.
 
I have the following 4 sata drives:
wd 150 gb
wd 60 gb
seagate 200gb
samsung 40 gb
They were all working when I pulled them out of a pc.

The weight of the 4 drives is about 6 lbs with protective packing.
My zip is 06492

Pay the cost of shipping, and add $5 for my time.
My zip is 06492

Heatware: 273-0-0
https://www.heatware.com/u/2948/to
 
I think I have an 80GB, 160GB, and 2 320GB 7200 RPM drives I can muster up. PM me if you're interested.
 
The 4 drives from Ray06492 just arrived. Brilliantly packaged.
Well sized box, plenty of room for shock absorbing Tightly wadded newspaper. Fresh newspaper, so free reading material. Each drive in its own little shipping bubble wrap envelope held shut with a broad rubber band.
No drive clanking against the others.
Drives all totally isolated from the box by the newspaper 0 contact drive to box anywhere. Lots of tight little balls.
Well Done.

Cons of packaging = 1 the envelopes are lined with normal plastic bubbles, not antistatic.
2 the drives were packed together into one lump so each envelope was in direct contact with all the others allowing them to bump into each other.

Excellent for this purpose, but inadequate for new 16tb drives.

Functionality test next.

4.9998 Eggs !

Thank you all :)
 
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