These drives had Seagate's special low-impedance steppers; they were faster than any other stepper-based drive on the market. The drive is actually locating its alignment sectors at startup; these were some of the first Shugart interface drives to have internal logic for this. They are also self-parking, using the inertia in the discs to generate electricity to park the heads.
not to mention they are pretty reliable too. I have a 2 NOS st-225 's in boxes. One I opened and plan to use but the other is something i may just keep in the wrapper. At least for awhile anyway. Both of my new units are perfect drives no bad sectors. I tested the one but all I know about the other is that the label says its a perfect drive.
I remember hearing a noise like that on an old IBM compatable Tandy computer similar to this one, most notable the sound at 0:15 and it had the same exact style grille with the LED on the hard drive. It was older than yours and the screen was a monochrome green screen fed by a standard composite video signal and I played typing tutor on it. That game was on a 5.25 floppy disk. It ran DOS 4.25.
@themaritimeman There were some full-height IBM hard drives which made a "pin dropping" sound when the heads unparked. That is also unique, but this Seagate drive puts on a whole show!
@MrComputerfan The ST277R is the RLL-certified version of the ST251. The mechanics are the same, but the RLL version was made with higher quality control of the disk surface, allowing it to be safely formatted with 26 sectors per track instead of 17, giving it about 50% more capacity. MFM and RLL drives were sold side-by-side for many years, until the IDE standard took over.
Almost all of the bronze-colored arch-shaped Seagate ST2xx series started up with these stepper motor sounds. Some of the earliest ones also made a hollow knocking sound because there was no track 0 sensor; track 0 was seeked simply by slamming the head into the stop.
@uxwbill These drives also make a very strange "Jake Brake" noise when you turn them off. When power is removed, the spindle motor turns into a generator, and supplies enough current to activate the stepper motor and park the heads.
You should hear the 5.25" Quantum 40MB SCSI on the Apple IIgs. On shutdown it makes a loud clicking braking noise now. After 20 years of service, I'm still surprised it works.
that sound is a stepper motor, the same thing they used in floppy drives. they were used to move the read/write head in hard drives before magnetic arms became widely used.
@NJRoadfan Old Quantums are strange. I had a Quantum 240LPS IDE drive that would periodically "recalibrate" itself while it was running, with the same head seek test it does when you first turn it on. It started out doing this once every 30 seconds or so while it was cold, and then as it warmed up the calibrations would get less and less frequent. Data transfer would basically stop dead in its tracks while it was recalibrating. I've never heard any other drive do such a thing.
vwestlife HAHHAHA - didn't see that - just remember the noise. I could also tell you how to low-level format it (on most controllers), the number of heads, cylinders and sectors per track on them from memory. I still have nightmares about the ones that would arrive with a bad sector map 20+ entries long, and having to enter all the bad sectors manually when low-levelling them.
vwestlife It's not unusual at all for anyone that's been in the industry since the late 80's to early 90's. In fact, it was one of the most common sounds computers made back then because the Seagate drives were the most common drive. Miniscribe was second, and I can tell the sound of one of those a mile away too.
@vwestlife The 120MB Quantum 2.5" SCSI drive in the Powerbook 165 I revived does that. Its a sign that the drive is near its end. This was after I had to slam it against the floor a few times to get it going again from striction after 10 years of hibernation. Nothing like good ol' percussive maintenance to wake up old computer parts.
Old harddrives where pretty horrible in terms of sound, i remember back in the late 90's i had a harddrive that had a loud pitch sound when it was on, and when it loaded it sounded like someone was grinding gravel inside the computer.
It sounds like a floppy drive, my guess it sounds like that because a lot of the old hard drives were very similar to Floppy Drives. They both use stepper motors back then just one spins and reads faster.
That's funny, because I have a Seagate ST96812AS notebook hard drive that is almost silent! Of course, is was from six years ago instead of twenty. It's crazy how much technology has advanced.
These drives had Seagate's special low-impedance steppers; they were faster than any other stepper-based drive on the market. The drive is actually locating its alignment sectors at startup; these were some of the first Shugart interface drives to have internal logic for this. They are also self-parking, using the inertia in the discs to generate electricity to park the heads.
self parking?
man i need one of those...
Next step: self driving
not to mention they are pretty reliable too. I have a 2 NOS st-225 's in boxes. One I opened and plan to use but the other is something i may just keep in the wrapper. At least for awhile anyway. Both of my new units are perfect drives no bad sectors. I tested the one but all I know about the other is that the label says its a perfect drive.
It's like it's a fucking bomb.
@
0:00 - 0:08 = jet engine start up
0:09 - 0:14 = missile lock warning
0:15 - 0:21 = plane wing stress warning
Are you communicating with extraterrestrial beings again?
@@kyria_kous Once again, it looks like we live in a small world.
Sounds like an MRI scanner
MMID303 so true
I remember hearing a noise like that on an old IBM compatable Tandy computer similar to this one, most notable the sound at 0:15 and it had the same exact style grille with the LED on the hard drive. It was older than yours and the screen was a monochrome green screen fed by a standard composite video signal and I played typing tutor on it. That game was on a 5.25 floppy disk. It ran DOS 4.25.
The 40MB variant of that drive sounded like that as well.
Darude sandstorm remix
@themaritimeman There were some full-height IBM hard drives which made a "pin dropping" sound when the heads unparked. That is also unique, but this Seagate drive puts on a whole show!
@MrComputerfan The ST277R is the RLL-certified version of the ST251. The mechanics are the same, but the RLL version was made with higher quality control of the disk surface, allowing it to be safely formatted with 26 sectors per track instead of 17, giving it about 50% more capacity. MFM and RLL drives were sold side-by-side for many years, until the IDE standard took over.
You would almost be forgiven for thinking that it was like an Apple startup tone made by the hard drive that sound.
Almost all of the bronze-colored arch-shaped Seagate ST2xx series started up with these stepper motor sounds. Some of the earliest ones also made a hollow knocking sound because there was no track 0 sensor; track 0 was seeked simply by slamming the head into the stop.
that startup sound is awesome!
Ooh what a sweet sound.. I remember an IBM XT 80186 we had at my elementary school made quite similar hard drive sounds, but probably shorter
@uxwbill These drives also make a very strange "Jake Brake" noise when you turn them off. When power is removed, the spindle motor turns into a generator, and supplies enough current to activate the stepper motor and park the heads.
I find this to be a distinct and relaxing sound!
You should hear the 5.25" Quantum 40MB SCSI on the Apple IIgs. On shutdown it makes a loud clicking braking noise now. After 20 years of service, I'm still surprised it works.
i had a 286 with a seagate st-254 or so it used to make the same lovely noise
My ST251 produced this sound when one pin of the cable was destroyed.
After using a new cable, the sound was without that beeping.
LOL!!! I remember cash registers used to sound like that back in the 80's!!!
0:09 wait a minute, I´m countin´ ya megabytes !
that sound is a stepper motor, the same thing they used in floppy drives. they were used to move the read/write head in hard drives before magnetic arms became widely used.
0:09 Commander, the alien ship is sending a cryptic code.
Users now: nooooo I only use SSDs but my power supply is making an unbearable noise!!! the pain!!!
Users in 1980: haha its thinking beep boop
sounds like a fighter cockpit!!! after the beeps i was waiting for ''S.A.M missiles!!, DROP FLARES, Deploy chaff""
idk why i love this sound
So much clever engineering in those days...
The sound and the cover ist identical to my old ST251 40 MB HD. It was MFM with ESDI Interface. This HDD was the tuning kit for my IBM PC XT 80286-12
I had a hard drive like that in a old 386 I had years ago. It always seems to remind of a air plan taking off.
Oh wow that is a strange hard drive start up noise. Never heard that before.
hard drive dubstep
@NJRoadfan Old Quantums are strange. I had a Quantum 240LPS IDE drive that would periodically "recalibrate" itself while it was running, with the same head seek test it does when you first turn it on. It started out doing this once every 30 seconds or so while it was cold, and then as it warmed up the calibrations would get less and less frequent. Data transfer would basically stop dead in its tracks while it was recalibrating. I've never heard any other drive do such a thing.
Gotta love those stepper motor drives.
You must be young.... That used to be quite normal...
its gonna blow
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@MixerVM MFM and RLL drives use a 34-pin control cable and a 20-pin data cable.
when someone is tailing you on a P996 Lazer with an Opressor MK2
sounds like a dial up modem dialling a number.
not really
Not even close, in fact...
Thought this was a joke and 90s rave music was about to play XD
The original dub step.
This sounds like the ultimate Ace Combat reference.
My Dad had one of these types of drives. I always thought it sounded like a popcorn popper when starting and accessing data.
looks as an bus and truck and van noise engine at the final
lol
It's a Seagate....probably an ST-251 or 251-1 or ST-277R or 277R-1
SuperTech-IT Read the video description. ;-)
vwestlife HAHHAHA - didn't see that - just remember the noise. I could also tell you how to low-level format it (on most controllers), the number of heads, cylinders and sectors per track on them from memory. I still have nightmares about the ones that would arrive with a bad sector map 20+ entries long, and having to enter all the bad sectors manually when low-levelling them.
vwestlife It's not unusual at all for anyone that's been in the industry since the late 80's to early 90's. In fact, it was one of the most common sounds computers made back then because the Seagate drives were the most common drive. Miniscribe was second, and I can tell the sound of one of those a mile away too.
We'll assume you meant Miniscribe - they had a much different sound though.
I wish the news ones sounded like that.
@vwestlife The 120MB Quantum 2.5" SCSI drive in the Powerbook 165 I revived does that. Its a sign that the drive is near its end. This was after I had to slam it against the floor a few times to get it going again from striction after 10 years of hibernation. Nothing like good ol' percussive maintenance to wake up old computer parts.
A hard drive imitating the big wheel on The Price is Right. Well, that's what I thought of when I heard it spin up...
This is the most unique hard drive startup i have ever heard!
That noise at 0:09 sounds like Battlefield!!! Or some other game I don't remember but I remember hearing that sound in a game.
Sounds like one of my bad days on the toilet
i miss old hard drive sounds
@an65001 It is only "extra beepy" when the drive is cold. If it has been used within the past few hours, the seek test runs faster.
@MrComputerfan Yes, and yes!
"whoop whoop pull up!"
PC mating call
Cool! I'd wan't this drives like woot!
@Lachlant1984 Yes, I posted this as a response to that video.
Old harddrives where pretty horrible in terms of sound, i remember back in the late 90's i had a harddrive that had a loud pitch sound when it was on, and when it loaded it sounded like someone was grinding gravel inside the computer.
wonder what it would had been like if that was like that at schools lol
It sounds like a floppy drive, my guess it sounds like that because a lot of the old hard drives were very similar to Floppy Drives. They both use stepper motors back then just one spins and reads faster.
Sounds like some obscure NES game.
haha man that used to be normal. you seem quite young
@MrComputerfan Actually this one is RLL.
If it happened today with my Seagate Barracuda hard drive, I would freak the fuck out.
Sounds like the floppy drive of an Apple II
0:13
1.1i gasoline engine start
I own an ST-251, sounds almost exactly the same.
i was gonna say sounds like a st-251, which a 277 is the same just for rll
Ah, the glorious sounds of an MFM drive in the morning... ( :P )
@bamdadkhan Yes.
@matmroy Yes.
This Hard Drive is asking for a.. ROUND OF APPLAUSE. XD
the dundundundundundundun is so complicated
WOW! Does that System Still Boot
I would buy this computer set up if I could
You can tell it's a Seagate!
sounds like a bomb about to blow up
That's funny, because I have a Seagate ST96812AS notebook hard drive that is almost silent! Of course, is was from six years ago instead of twenty. It's crazy how much technology has advanced.
Like the USS Nostromo booting up.
This is probably brand new in ethiopia
that's some diesel ass noise it's making
Get out of there, it's gonna blow!
Nice dubstep
I have an ST-277R MLC-0 in my IBM 5150.
i need to get one for my compaq portable
an actual *self parking* drive
Cool shit
That is a bit unusual even for an old Seagate!
SEAGATE A GO-GO! LOL
HAHA kinda sounds like a Techno, trance, or Rave Song.. :-)
Watching in 2020
@79Datson minus all the wired noises :P
Its gonna explode!!!
Yeah, that's weird, a hard drive singing. :)
Why else would I call the video "The most unusual hard drive startup noise"?
Alot of voicecoil hard drives have auto parking heads.
well that's interesting.
haha u should listen to my GPU fan! *tick tick tick*
hard drive is going to meet the lord. or you can meet hard drives internal world!!!! (using a specialized screw driver
Know what you should do.. hehehe put it in FL studio and make a song out of it XD
like a crashing plane
Prepare for take off!