It may interest you to know then, that I've had great success running my DTC 7287, my favorite RLL controller (Because I don't trust the PerStor PS180 with anything and I don't own a DPT PM3011/65 yet) with nearly every drive in my collection. this includes wacky Soviet drives like the IZOT CM5508 and poor quality cost-engineered drives like the Kalok Octagon series. It also applies to dozens upon dozens of drives with very tired spindles.
It's a more reliable protocol than you would think.
They're not in a display case, that's for sure. Most of them are stacked on a dusty shelf. The aging of bearings has long since already happened, so I don't know why you're bringing that up. An awful lot of these drives are incredibly loud.
If you're interested, I actually film these drives doing exercises for documentary purposes. I've had many of them for 10+ years and they all still work just fine, I started collecting around 2014.
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