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Ah, yes, that ribbon cable connecting the PCBA to the spindle motor. I tried to get the mechanical engineering guy to do a spring finger contact but he thought they weren't reliable.

The Conner drive during this time used the microprocessor to turn on and off the MOSFET drivers which were powering the brushless motor.

Muy difícil capacidado por calle dijo muy difícil muy días

It's what I was born in my time 98

The head on mine is so silent, can't tell if it's doing anything or not

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I just found one in a website in turkiye for 600₺(its around 20$)

The startup sound of these is so so incredibly good. I picked up one of these a couple of years ago, but sadly it's fried. I really like spinning it up now and again though just for that wonderful startup! Really nice to hear this one :)

Drive at 2:40 is a tandon drive. WDC bought Tandon.

I kinda like how the older Seagate and Miniscribe HDDs make a loud harmony. I could recreate that harmony by just hearing the notes.

That Conner Filepro Advantage (CFA170A) doesn't sound too healthy with that overspinning...

Everything is newer than my oldest Western Digital drives. Mine is the model based on the Tandon design with a stepper motor and inferior clip securement before WD went full voice coil and a proper gasket with screws.

That's a nice collection of old drives! Thank you for mentioning me in the description.

Quite a few 1999 - 2001 drives produced late for their size when drives twice or more of their capacity were common.

why did i laugh at the stepper motor fading in then fading out

6:26 How are they constructed to sound like that? They turn on and off and then they turn on with a whining noise and then the "nitro" kicks in.

Sounds like a revving car

Awesome audio quality!

That’s a nice collection you got there! That Caviar 140 appears to be the earliest produced unit I have seen yet. Also I really like the graphics you added in the side to match the drives!

Love those old Conners

Ah windows 98 - age of empires

What makes this a stingray?

This is one of the only Quantum drives that are still reliable in modern day. All the other series from Quantum are prone to dying.

Can you do the sounds of SSD drives?!

1:27 I love how this one literally sounds like it semi truck 😂

Cool collection! I really like the drives that sound a little hollow and airy like the Seagate ST351A/X at 7:45

2:43 : This HDD sound maybe can be used to test the Woofer driver 😅

I have a pretty sizeable collection of older WD, Conner, Seagate and Quantum drives but never owned any new. Were they always noisy like this or is it compounded by age of the bearings and other internal parts? These sound amazing by the way.

Wasn't the WD93044-A the first IDE hard disk? The 8245SA can't find track 0. It needs to be low-level formatted.

Sounds like it has a pancake servo rather than a stepper, like some NEC drives do.

It was an expensive drive. We paid over $200 for ours back in 1995 if I remember right.

I thought these drives were strange the first time I saw them. The first ones were made for them by Olivetti in Italy.

I used to have a good working one. I sold it a couple of months ago along with the controller since I no longer needed it (an ST-4096 with a WDXT-GEN2 translating controller is in its place).

You didn't show it parking during spindown. It uses the inertia in the platters to generate electricity to park the heads.

I burned my finger with a Seagate U series the same way, it got around 10000 degrees while spinning up and apart from a nasty blister i dropped it and it seized, later i found that i could unf*** it by dropping it on the opposite side

I love hdd sounds

Sounds so good!

When it spins up it’s almost like it has to catch it self, like… It can’t decide what speed it wants to spin up to LOL

Probably the worst Caviar bearings I have heard, they are shot!

These Caviar drives have a clean look to them and sound nice! 😀

Nice video, this was really fun to watch. I'm wondering, do these drives actually work properly? Can you write to them and read from them without issues?

Finally, a collector who has an IBM 171MB disk, which I had with an Amiga 500 computer (with an additional external HDD controller). It was a really loud disk, with an additional sound effect - depending on which cylinders the heads were operating on, but perhaps the second problem with this additional noise is was the fault of a specific example. In any case, the drive performed well and was resold 3 years later. A year before the sale, it was replaced by WD Caviar 850MB, which I have kept to this day and is also featured in this film. As a former seller/servicer, I say that you should treat an HDD like an egg. How durable it will be depends on what micro-injuries and stronger impacts it will be exposed to before installation (on the way from the distributor to installation in the housing).

I had one of these. Randomly it would work, other times it would bang the head around during it's seek test.

its alive?

Aliens inside ! Take them out !

I love listening to these drives spin up and down. Thanks for uploading !

I'll never make it through perfect or unbeatable, i made it through the rest but i'll never hear unbeatable

Love the seek test sound, reminds me of the old Acorn A5000 computer I had with this drive 👍

I've had many of these, and I've seen some die to faulty firmware, bricking it. Also seen some with bad sectors.

"Accept only the finest..." ...you mean the finest in those worn out balls inside the bearing?