This is a Seagate Barracudea 7200 1TB drive. About 5 years old now. Never been dropped, just safely sitting in the bottom of my PC that never gets moved. Never gave any symptoms of trouble, but one day it decided to give up on life. Luckily it had nothing important on it but I wanted to learn a little bit about drives so figured I'd attempt a repair if possible.
So here's what it's doing...
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxKBNvx ... e=youtu.beIn this photo you can see a ring near the center of the top platter. From what little I know this would indicate a scratch from contact with the head, but again considering this drive hasn't moved an inch in probably the last 2 years I'm curious as to how this could happen. Also you can see a little dust has managed to get in and lay on the outer edge of the platter.
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