I found a centronix cable in an old parts box while searching for something else in my garage couple of days ago. That box had couple IDE ribbon cables too 
HGST 4TB SAS hard drives $60
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Me too! Is tape somehow designed to have less magnetic and mechanical degradation compared to hdd? Unless there is a cheap optical media with at least 100GB capacity per disc and as cheap or cheaper than 25GB bd-r right now, I just don't see how i could move away from using hdd as storage and backup. Seems like nothing is as easy and efficient and cost effective. BD-R cost used to be cheaper but not anymore.I also was interested in that question @Filez for a while back, but came to the conclusion that just using HDDs for storage is much cheaper for me at least.
But i am interested to hear if there are any inexpensive used products can be had for tape drive storage as well
Dell PowerVault 114X LTO5, LTO6, LTO7, LTO8 Tape Rack Enclosure | eBay
and a corresponding drive. I read that tape drives can last upto 25 years.
win10 even works with parallel ports
I found that sentence very funny for some reason : Windows 10 + Parallel Port
The problem is that back in the day, the parallel port was used with a driver to make it essentially into a scsi or ide controller connected via the parallel port. This was all done by the driver software, which I don't think would have continuing development.I found a centronix cable in an old parts box while searching for something else in my garage couple of days ago. That box had couple IDE ribbon cables too
That being said, the centronics port on your drive may actually be scsi, not parallel so be careful or you could end up shorting something out.
Did you just contact someone on the site before ordering? The code doesn't seem to work anymore and I am getting ready to buy some of the same drives.
Any word on how yours look?
Mine should be here this wk. takes a little time to go from west coast to east. msg him if code doesn't work anymore. maybe he ll reactivate it
The problem is that back in the day, the parallel port was used with a driver to make it essentially into a scsi or ide controller connected via the parallel port. This was all done by the driver software, which I don't think would have continuing development.
That being said, the centronics port on your drive may actually be scsi, not parallel so be careful or you could end up shorting something out.
My sparq drive powered on but was not detected plugged into the parallel port on the win10 computer even after reboot ;(. also it made a high pitch screeching noise when i loaded a disk ;(
9 are good with no read or write errors. 1 has a few bad sectors and seller is sending a replacement.
There are a few with a fair amount of read/write at around 400TB but they have no read or write error. so i guess we will see about 3 yr from now how they are...lol..
There are a few with a fair amount of read/write at around 400TB but they have no read or write error. so i guess we will see about 3 yr from now how they are...lol..
Glad these appeared to have worked out for you.
2015 Year of Manufacture is pretty solid for these at $34 a piece.
If you managed to get all May 2015 or later than March 2015, they should still be under manufacture's warranty too!
Did you burn in the drives or just read smart data?
2015 Year of Manufacture is pretty solid for these at $34 a piece.
If you managed to get all May 2015 or later than March 2015, they should still be under manufacture's warranty too!
Did you burn in the drives or just read smart data?
I ran surface write and read back once on each drive. It's hard to believe how some of them have like several hundred TB of write and read....lol... I do have to say some of they are actually from 2013.
The one that have 12 bad sectors is from 2015 with only 4TB write and 7TB read. and that included my 4TB write and read test....lol... Se drive with 9X5X serial number
I got 6 drives from this deal. Here is smart data from couple of them. First one as you can see has quite a lot of writes.
Anyone knows more about the ECC errors, is there any significance to them?
Anyone knows more about the ECC errors, is there any significance to them?
Code:
Manufactured in week 18 of year 2015
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 47
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 827
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 39864870379716608
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 346765 23 0 346788 1314992 556493.415 0
write: 0 0 0 0 2923391 1093192.290 0
verify: 46 0 0 46 767 6.328 0
Non-medium error count: 0
Code:
Manufactured in week 20 of year 2015
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 33
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 832
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 2292538283130880
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 635111 332 0 635443 434366 249677.323 0
write: 0 0 0 0 51946 56232.333 0
verify: 1460 6 0 1466 19551 3.425 0
Non-medium error count: 0
Code:
Manufactured in week 22 of year 2014
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 59
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 1206
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 1995930442137600
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 18170 44 0 18214 5394 18889.039 0
write: 0 0 0 0 18108 23123.770 0
verify: 26940 2701 0 29641 175524 361.775 0
Non-medium error count: 0