Design flaw or planned obsolescence? Quantum Go Drive 120MB
679Over the weekend, I went to a scrapyard with the mission to find some interesting retro hardware. And although I did find some interesting motherboards, CPUs, video and sound cards, today's video will feature an IDE hard drive: a 2.5 inch Quantum 120AT with 120MB!
This drive was buried in a pile of other SATA and IDE hard drives. Let's find out if this drive still works!
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▬▬▬▬ *Timestamps* ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 Intro
00:40 Scrapyard loot
01:12 Quantum GoDrive 120AT
01:34 Damaged flexible connector cable
02:05 PCBWay
02:35 Fixing flexible connector cable
05:00 Testing the drive
05:30 Looking for answers
06:29 Removing the cover
06:54 Let's listen to the drive
08:09 Disassembling the drive
08:36 The culprit
10:00 Conclusion