My Vintage Hard Drive Collection - The Sounds of 50+ Hard Drives in 20 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2023
- I am now at the point where I can say that my collection is in its final state. This video showcases the result of collecting for one year. There will also be drives in this video that have not yet been featured in this channel.
Shout-outs:
Huge thanks to @arnlol, @Struukbessen, and others for inspiring me to start this collection back in 2022.
Another huge thanks to @bigbluebananabread, @cdos9186, @XL-Tech, and many others in the HDD community for stopping by to enjoy my HDD videos. :)
Equipment I Used:
Audio recorded with a TASCAM DR-07X
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CORRECTION: The Maxtor Atlas 10K IV is 36GB, not 32.
Always thought that drive had a really strange calibration sound. Your example is perfectly healthy. The best sounding Atlas drive is the Quantum Atlas 10K II. It has an unusually low note for a 10,000 RPM drive, almost a resonance to it, but is very, very smooth, no buzz at all to it. I have a machine with 16 of them, 25 years old now.
@@MrZorbatron16?! Wtf is it? A old rack mount server or disk shelf?
19:31 LOL The helicopter has taken off!!
1:27 I love how this one literally sounds like it semi truck 😂
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).
2:43 : This HDD sound maybe can be used to test the Woofer driver 😅
Love it!
If I tried to make a video of all my drives it would be 6+ hours long 🤣
I’d gladly watch all 6 hours of it lol
I would still watch it. Hard drives are just that interesting.
I kinda like how the older Seagate and Miniscribe HDDs make a loud harmony. I could recreate that harmony by just hearing the notes.
Quite a few 1999 - 2001 drives produced late for their size when drives twice or more of their capacity were common.
I have to say, my favorite sounding one is the Quantum Bigfoot, I'm not even sure why.
Quantum bigfoot is actually one of my favorite drives of all times and I been using them since the 90:s and still today and they are big and awesome, have many left that still works, But I always liked Quantum Fireball too, very durable drives, it is however aging problems with pretty much all Pro Drive versions because of rubber rotting internally making the heads get stuck on them now sadly enough
You seriously have a lovely collection, so many interesting drives. Nicely varied too, huge kudos :)
Definitely very hard to pick a favourite!
I love listening to these drives spin up and down. Thanks for uploading !
That's a nice collection of old drives!
Thank you for mentioning me in the description.
Love those old Conners
Flashbacks! I handled, installed, the vast majority of these.
Good video, subbed!
Cool collection! I really like the drives that sound a little hollow and airy like the Seagate ST351A/X at 7:45
The Toshiba MK4026GAX has an estimated release of 04 January 2006 🙂
Amazing job on the video! Although I will say, a few of the drives sound like they have issues initializing, for example the Quantum ProDrive 105S sounds like it has a sticking rubber bumper which is a known issue on those brick style one's as well. Also the Piranha 4200 sounds not normal since it just does two clicks, although those are so hard to come by it could be normal, I'm not sure! Also I absolutely LOVE those Seagate Medalist drives and the Medalist Pro you have! You have an incredible amount of great drives, thanks for sharing : ))
I love hdd sounds
Wasn't the WD93044-A the first IDE hard disk?
The 8245SA can't find track 0. It needs to be low-level formatted.
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?
Drive at 2:40 is a tandon drive. WDC bought Tandon.
That Conner Filepro Advantage (CFA170A) doesn't sound too healthy with that overspinning...
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.
Most likely, the disk is spinning up slowly to check that the disk is spinning normally, and then turn on the operating mode
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.
They where a little noisy when new, but not as noisy compared to today after however many thousands of hours of runtime. (Especially counting the spindle motor bearings)
I have some of those 5.25 drives as of 2024 and they do grumble a bit taken out of storage for a bit then quiet down. Particularly the ST-412. Never heard a Bigfoot with a loud bearing and I have a few of them.
Older, I mean Vintage HDD Sound, is almost like Engine 😅
I listen it with my earphone, though 😅
Can you do the sounds of SSD drives?!
Troll-clown
ssd is not mechanical.
has nand flash so no noise
Do any of these overheat?
Aside from the Fireball ST, which has a thermally defective IC, I don't think so.
@@SmartBonnieYT I almost forgot about that IC issue. My 4320AT also has that issue. What a shame, those drives are very reliable mechanically. Kind of sketchy knowing that the chip may or may not explode on power up.