That really is a shame on this one, these are really nice drives when they work and are fast. I was not expecting to see that damage to the platters, but I guess it was hinted at when the drive struggled to spin up. The heads were creating a drag and not allowing the motor to properly start. I believe you could very well be right about the excessive contact start-stop cycles, but also it almost appears that the heads were dragging when they spun down, eventually sticking to the platters, and ruining them. Every time heads drag when the drive spins down, depending how bad it is, it will eventually damage the platters, ruin the heads, cause a crash, or all of the above as we see here. I believe a very probably cause is that the actual coating they used on the platters that prevents the heads from sticking began to break down, which lead to the failure of this drive. As far as I know there isn't anything you can do when that coating breaks down, since it will just get worse over time and eventually lead to what is seen in the video. Shame because these are already difficult to find, sad to see it had to go that way but thank you for uploading this video, it also sheds answers as to what can fail on specific models or what goes wrong due to time as well.
That really is a shame on this one, these are really nice drives when they work and are fast. I was not expecting to see that damage to the platters, but I guess it was hinted at when the drive struggled to spin up. The heads were creating a drag and not allowing the motor to properly start. I believe you could very well be right about the excessive contact start-stop cycles, but also it almost appears that the heads were dragging when they spun down, eventually sticking to the platters, and ruining them. Every time heads drag when the drive spins down, depending how bad it is, it will eventually damage the platters, ruin the heads, cause a crash, or all of the above as we see here. I believe a very probably cause is that the actual coating they used on the platters that prevents the heads from sticking began to break down, which lead to the failure of this drive. As far as I know there isn't anything you can do when that coating breaks down, since it will just get worse over time and eventually lead to what is seen in the video. Shame because these are already difficult to find, sad to see it had to go that way but thank you for uploading this video, it also sheds answers as to what can fail on specific models or what goes wrong due to time as well.