Hello @morenow. This was a major undertaking to perform inside maintenance on your hard drive. By showing the before and after photos, it was apparent this may have been the source of your problems. I've never performed any maintenance, so I can only guess at the accumulation of dirt inside.
Thanks for sharing. It's good you didn't have to hire someone. Take care.
Ufff, I imagine how that team will be inside, although it is possible that this very clean too, there are cases where the customer spends years without maintenance and when I bring the team does not need to clean anything, it's amazing but it usually happens.
Maybe your case is somewhat similar, although you have not done any maintenance, you are lucky to have clean equipment XD.
Thanks for stopping by, greetings.