I have four (4) IBM Ultrastar 18.2GB 68-pin "Ultra3" SCSI drives, 7200RPM, 3.5" 1/3-height form-factor.
Unlike the memory I posted a couple weeks ago, these are actually ready to ship to anyone who wants them. I am asking for the buyer to cover shipping, only, and I prefer to send them all together.
All four drives were in a server RAID array, so they've seen pretty much 24/7 run time during their life. Each manufactured in Aug 2001, so they're almost exactly ten years old.
They are loud, as anyone who have worked with these drives will attest. I have wiped them with no problems, and run a surface scan which returned no errors. Even so, after a long time of reading and writing, they all tend to run what sounds like sporadic recalibrations.
I was concerned when I heard this on the first drive that it may have some problems, but every drive exhibited the same behavior at pretty much the same point in time during the wipe and scan processes.
I have a similar drive in my 4000D attached to my CS-MKIII, and it runs great. In my experience, these Ultrastars are remarkable drives. I have come across numerous servers running these drives in various capacities which are 10 years-old or older, including one of my own which has 12 year-old 9.1GB and 36.4GB drives of which none are reporting any problems -- even though they sound like table saws
I'm gonna give these until the end of the month when I make my electronics recycling run to the dump. I hate to take working technology to be scrapped, but I just can't continue to store stuff which *might* be useful one day.
I ship via UPS or FedEx and will take payment via PayPal.
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