Hard drive collection- spin up & down of 103 drives, 40MB-3TB, 1991-2014, ASMR sounds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- This is my full collection of hard drives, 103 in total, spinning up and down. First are the working ones, then the broken ones are at the end. They are arranged in order of capacity, and therefore rough chronological order due to increasing areal density. They are mainly vintage(I find them more interesting), but there's a few modern drives later on. This video was a lot of work. Apologies in advance if I made a mistake, it was a lot of data to keep track of. I hope you enjoy listening to the soothing sounds of these hard drives(Except for maybe the few with extremely loud bearings). Chapters with timestamps are below.
Chapters:
Introduction: 00:03
Working drives:
Early 90's(40MB-180MB): 00:20
Mid 90's(180MB-1300MB): 03:26
Late 90's(1300MB-7GB): 08:25
Early 00's(7GB-80GB): 14:12
Mid 00s & onwards(80GB+): 18:16
Broken drives: (Same capacities as above)
Early 90's (Broken): 23:31
Mid 90's (Broken): 24:46
Late 90's (Broken): 26:46
Early 00's (Broken): 29:11
No broken over 80GB :)
Recording setup:
Drives are placed on left palmrest of 2021 14" MacBook Pro, then powered on and recorded with Audacity. There is a little background noise in some of the recordings, but decent audio quality I would say.
If you have a suggestion, or notice an error, please comment down below!
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Thanks for watching!
*Corrections:*
-19:27 Interface is SATA, not IDE
-20:56 Interface is SATA, not IDE
-21:56 Model number is actually ST3750330SV, not the one listed
-27:07 DOM should be late 90's
*Updates:*
The MK0200MAT at 24:47 is now working after the rubber bumper was taped over.(albeit with a head crash) I just uploaded the inside view as a Short.
Our first family PC had a Quantum Fireball ST in it. Hearing that spin up sound was very nostalgic, thanks for the upload
Of course! The Fireball is a classic, one of the most iconic seektests!
My Quantum Fireball ST has a completely different bearing sound and it oddly sounds nice to listen to.
They may have used a different vendor for the spindle motor. Or perhaps it was just made in a different year. Fireball's sound pretty awesome, I will agree!
Wow. These hard drives really make for some cool sound effects. It reminds me of 2009~ I had an old xp computer. Super cool
That's a nice collection you've got there! Most of us don't have many early laptop drives, but you have quite a few, nice!
As for the bad drives, the Toshibas apparently have a rubber bumper in them too that's why they are getting stuck. Any reason for not using the PCB of the 280 that spins and put it on the other one? (Maybe you've tried that before and it still didn't work I guess?)
I appreciate it! I find laptop drives very interesting, and I buy a lot of laptops so I end up with a lot. They're also a lot easier to store. I had heard mixed accounts of whether the Toshiba's had rubber bumpers, but someone in the server just said the bumper was the problem in theirs and they were able to fix it so I'm looking into that. May post an update if I'm able to get those fixed. As for the 280's, you guessed right. When the working PCB was installed the no spin 280 would spin up, but once it hit rotational speed, it would immediately shut off and an error light would blink. I guess it makes sense, the boards look completely different. They had different model numbers too, -32 on the older one, and -32S on the new one. I didn't think such a radically different variant would have such a similar model number.
OOooooooooooh man.... gigitty... the sound... the clicks.... i just got teleported to the 80s and 90s
Missed opportunity to mark the no-spin drives as 0 RPM lol. Very cool collection though
Thanks! I totally didn’t think of that haha
The Quantum drive in 27:08 doesn't suffer from inconsistent speed. Quantum drives speed up a little to try freeing heads when they can't read the platter correctly
Interesting to hear! Thanks for letting me know.
The drive labeled FWB was probably a branded upgrade drive. The company sold high-end RAID enclosures under the name "Sledgehammer".
Yes I figured that. I couldn’t really find much info about this side of FWB’s business. I know there were other companies that sold these Toshiba drives too. I’m guessing they sold the drive to the user, and they would upgrade the computer at home or through a dealer.
21:56 A slight correction - the SV35.3's model is ST3750330SV, not the one you listed. The ST31000340AS corresponds to a standard Barracuda/Barracuda ES.2 1TB drive. I happen to know this since I have two ST31000340NS, which are based from the AS versions.
Thanks for letting me know! I guess I mixed it up with another one I had, because it's obviously visible on the label.
And the Quantum fireball ST has a very funny sound effect, I used to have a WD caviar 2340 but unfortunately I don't have it anymore, it was the first hard drive with my first computer in 1994 with Win 3.1
I would have let the 80GB DiamondMax Plus 9 go through its extended seek test. Many of the DiamondMax Plus drives will do this.
Didn’t know that, I’ll check if mine does it. Could possibly upload it as a Short.
Quantum fireball st is a pretty good hard drive that can last for years, I still have two of them, 5.1 and 8.4 GB with Win 98 and ME, I also have the WD caviar 2850 red which is one of the best WD drives over the years and it really has a very funny sound effect, I think everyone liked the caviar 2850! if someone like me has it, let them know that they are very lucky!!!
Good collection!!!
13:18 I really like the caviar 36400, it's a pity that it is in very bad condition.
Thank you! Yeah I was sad about that one too. It was in a lot of drives packed with no protection. I actually made a video about that lot. If the lot was packed properly it would’ve been a very nice drive. It’s actually quite rare too.
i love the sound of the ST351A/X because it sounds pretty interesting. the toshiba drives are a bit uninteresting. the 3 platter WDC31200 is pretty interesting though, i think its rare. the samsung voyager drives have the crazy seektest that also sounds interesting too lol
I love the ST351A/X as well, it's also my only drive with a stepper motor. It has such a cool seektest. I can see why you think the Toshibas are uninteresting, they are pretty similar. I personally like them a lot, but to each their own. I get a lot of them in laptops I have purchased. The 31200 is actually pretty common, there's one on eBay for a good price right now. When I first heard the Voyager seektest, I was pretty shocked too, it's beautifully complex.
The drives at 19:27 and 20:56 are listed as IDE when the labels state SATA and the controller board for both drives definitely have a SATA connector. Minor nitpick in the grand scheme of things given how many you tested
I knew they were SATA, just forgot to change the text(I was using a placeholder) I looked over this video a lot, and caught a lot of mistakes. Unfortunately I missed this one. Like you said, it is a lot of drives to keep track of. Thanks for letting me know!
that second Caviar 22400 doesn't have a strange seektest, some 00LA drives just sound like that. 1997 WDs have a lot of variation in the sound they make.
I thought it was strange that it sounded different from the identical drive that was produced just 2 days earlier. But yeah it is just minor variation. 1997 sure was a wild time for WD.
Wow, that was cool😎
There are "fixes" for most of them.
True! A lot of the Toshibas have a bumper that gets the heads stuck, just repaired the MK0200MAT and it works now.
Is that first Conner from a PowerBook? I heard the unmistakable chime.
EDIT: I'm hearing a lot of Mac chimes, so either I'm right or you're using a spare Mac to power on the drives.
Yes lol. The drives with the Mac chimes are all 40-pin SCSI. The only way to power them is to have them connected to a computer(in this case a PowerBook 145). They all were pulled from PowerBooks too.
@@antequated.archive Nice. Out of all of the 2.5" SCSI drives, those early to mid 90s IBM's will likely last forever. They're built like tanks and their quality blows Conner and Quantum out of the water.
@@redleader6442 Totally agree. It's actually insane just how much more reliable they are compared to the other brands Apple used. They practically all still work! It's kinda ironic, considering the Deskstar fiasco.
@@antequated.archive The Deskstar 75GXP was IBM's failed first attempt at glass platters, I believe. Flawed magnetic coating. The series before it was quite reliable. I have a 12GB Deskstar from '98, original to my Power Mac G3, and a '97 4.3GB Ultrastar SCSI drive in my Dell WorkStation 400. Both still work quite well.
i have a lil question: i recently got a IBM Model DYKA-22160, is it rare?
It doesn’t seem common, there’s only a few on eBay. But it appears to have been used as an Apple OEM drive, so it’s not going to be super rare. Looks cool tho!
Disappointed. I was ready to hear hundreds of drives spin up and down simultaneously
That would probably crash my editing software lol
9:11 this bad boy is sitting in my collection of mid 2000 to mid 2020’s drives…
The 21600 is an awesome drive and is quite reliable as well. Hope you enjoy it!
im high as shit and this is the best video ive ever seen
Lmao
7:04 i have 4 of that drive and they all work
That's one of my favorites! Unfortunately, they are a little failure prone. How did you get so many?
17:51 i got that one too