The biggest reason these 5146H drives are less common is because Quantum sued NEC over their use of a glass optical encoder (Quantum sued anyone that used an optical encoder for positioning).
@@leecremeans5446 Quantum probably didn't want to sue a potential major customer for their products, however primary producers of hard drives (like NEC, PTI, CMI, Rodime, Sony and others) were fair game.
Thanks! I'm tired of rain and thunder sounds. This is now my sleep music.
@@25RAD interesting use case, glad you enjoy
I have two of these. One fails the seek test with the stepper rapidly slamming to the end. My second one is the boot drive on my 286.
@@matthewsvideos8235 it's an optical servo, but yeah one of mine slammed the heads against the out stop and never spun up again.
Good stepper motor there
@@proyasin1504 it's an optical servo
The biggest reason these 5146H drives are less common is because Quantum sued NEC over their use of a glass optical encoder (Quantum sued anyone that used an optical encoder for positioning).
Interestingly, I don't think they sued Apple over the Widget drive, which also used an optical encoder.
@@leecremeans5446 Quantum probably didn't want to sue a potential major customer for their products, however primary producers of hard drives (like NEC, PTI, CMI, Rodime, Sony and others) were fair game.
@@bobjoe2827 Did they sue NEC? The D5126H, D5127H, D5147H, D3122, D3142, D3146 all use the same optical servo motor.
@@leecremeans5446 I know they sued Sony and were a bit litigious but I'm not sure what all they did.
@@bobjoe2827did they actually sue CMI and PTI?