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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!

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.