Reply 52420 of 52976, by Vynix
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Bought a Seagate ST-296N for much cheaper than they usually go for... Only for it to arrive completely trashed.
First signs of troubles came up when I powered the drive up (horrible screaching noise), so I popped the cover up and sure enough, the uppermost platter's heads got sheared off the actuator arm!
When I received the package, the box was torn apart, and the drive wrapped in a thick layer of bubble wrap... I suppose that had to play a part.
Oh well, I mainly wanted one of these for the noise... Interestingly, even though it has two missing heads it seems to be still passing the seek test, maybe this drive isn't quite ready to call it quits?
Proud owner of a Shuttle HOT-555A 430VX motherboard and two wonderful retro laptops, namely a Compaq Armada 1700 [nonfunctional] and a HP Omnibook XE3-GC [fully working :p]