Any experience with Toshiba MK6026GAX

[rkawakami]

Picked up 5 Toshiba MK6026GAX drives off of eBay recently and was wondering if anybody has had any long-term experience with this drive. I had two of them running the read/write diagnostic in PC Doctor for the last two days and they passed fine. Sure they got a little warm but I'd expect that. The other three were tested using the quicker read-only test. I am planning on putting at least two of them through the entire fixed disk diag (linear scan, funnel, random access, etc.) tomorrow.

Anything I should be looking (listening?) for when using these drives? Are there any reliability figures or stories (good and bad) that you can share? Thanks!

[AlphaKilo470]

There are one or two horror stories and a romor or two floating around concerning Toshiba hard drives on this forum and in my experience with an MK4026GAX in a 600E, the drive would always get hot, sometimes overheating, but for the most part ran fine and that same hard drive now runs fine in a Vaio I sold a friend earlier this sumer. However, I've had nothing but positive experience with Toshiba's vintage drives made in the 90s.