Hard drive collection - Spin up/down of over 70 hard drives from 40MB to 4TB !

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  • I made an updated video in April 2023, 189 drives now, check it here : • Spin up/down of 189 ha...
    20 Minutes of hard drives spinning up and down. . The first 6 drives are opened ones, then the rest of the drives are sorted by capacity (The smaller capacity drives are earlier in the video).
    Note : Some of the older drives need a controller to do their seektest. For those I plugged them in my Pentium III PC. I cut the recording to remove the waiting time for my motherboard to POST.
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  • @Ervytron
    @Ervytron 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    1:28 I love this sound. Sounds like a music

    • @deftrascal1626
      @deftrascal1626 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      2:13 is my favorite 4 the same reason

  • @stepa22
    @stepa22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    9:22 the HDD opening a bottle of wine: Oh, not again!

    • @Techno-Universal
      @Techno-Universal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The wine also corrupts and destroys more sectors every time! :)

  • @Fogolol
    @Fogolol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    there's asmr then there's these beauties humming like angels

  • @ErikS-
    @ErikS- ปีที่แล้ว +11

    10:28 - Love this one!
    Sounds like a jet engine powering up!

  • @RedstoneMiner18
    @RedstoneMiner18 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:41 i like how the drive is 1 WHOLE MEGABYTE larger than the previous 40mb drive

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ ปีที่แล้ว +17

    5:58 i love that "horn" sound, like a warning before engine start 🙂
    I had that drive in my first PC 386dx 40MHz in 1993. 😍

    • @kirbyyasha
      @kirbyyasha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yaknow. Before the clip even came I knew which HDD brand you were referring to and I agree with the horn sound. I loved it.

  • @mr.choice86
    @mr.choice86 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Amazing how many different memories and feelings I get by just hearing these drives spin up or seek. 8:48 seeking of this drive takes me back to my childhood. Love this video!

  • @mr.bright684
    @mr.bright684 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    4:46 I will buy that hard drive! Fkng beautiful 😍❤️

    • @ananas1006
      @ananas1006 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah for one photo

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good luck
      You would need it

  • @Choochinc
    @Choochinc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    19:43 The Seagate U5 was the hard drive I had in my first computer back in the 2000s. I had the 10GB model. The sound of that seek test is so nostalgic to me, I recognized it immediately despite looking away from the video.

  • @muhammadsyamsudinalie3111
    @muhammadsyamsudinalie3111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    beautiful retro sound... i love them all

  • @thegeforce6625
    @thegeforce6625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    There's something oddly calming about the Quantum Viking II 9.1GB (13:51) quitely spinning up and initalising.

    • @mr.choice86
      @mr.choice86 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now I had to watch the whole video to find out which one..

    • @carlwheezerofsouls3273
      @carlwheezerofsouls3273 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mr.choice86 and ill have to do the same! can someone link a timestamp for this thing?!

    • @mr.choice86
      @mr.choice86 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carlwheezerofsouls3273 I dont remember but I liked the initializing of 8:48 even more

  • @garyceriotti850
    @garyceriotti850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for showing the reverse side of these drives also! Fascinating !

  • @4dxl
    @4dxl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some of these are gold, thanks for sharing

  • @soaebhasankhokon9521
    @soaebhasankhokon9521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Very helpful video to Know the history of the old to new Hard drive (1990-2021).. thanks bro ❤️❤️

  • @RowanBird779
    @RowanBird779 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Spinning platters covered in magnet dust is something that can never replicated, from the spinning, clicking, and odd gradual sector failure
    I also have a 1TB WD Caviar black, I never remembered what it sounded like (Was always masked by everything else, specially those stupid front case fans), failed a long time ago, still never found out what's wrong with it

  • @wiher7472
    @wiher7472 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a hdd in my new pc bought about 7 months ago. It has also a all in one water cooler and this whole time i thought that the pump was faulty making this noise. Now that ive watched this vid im convinced to drop my hdd from a building. Thank you!

  • @cdos9186
    @cdos9186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I’ve heard those early Samsung drives like the one at 4:00 were some of the most delicate drives ever, if you were rough with them in any sort of way like place them down hard, they would have damage occur. Never heard one of those, I really do love the sound it makes.

    • @enterchannelname7568
      @enterchannelname7568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Got a bunch of these old drives (many were already dead), and can confirm that they are extremely sensitive.

    • @cdos9186
      @cdos9186 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@enterchannelname7568 Interesting! Can you make a video of them? What is the failure mode on them?

    • @enterchannelname7568
      @enterchannelname7568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cdos9186 Unfortunately I don't have them anymore (sorry if I made it seem that way in the comment), but most of the drives suffered from heads clicking repeatedly and others had pretty bad scraping sounds. I'm not really an expert and didn't know too much about them. A family member owned a small internet provider in the late 90s and early 2000s. They didn't clean out a warehouse that had a bunch of old computers from their office until years after closing. It seems that they bought many of these drives for their PCs.
      Edit: yeah they still used pretty old hardware in some of their PCs. I remember the brand because I didn't know samsung made hard drives until then.

    • @cdos9186
      @cdos9186 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@enterchannelname7568 That sucks because those Samsung drives are fairly rare now. Better yet I've never heard one fail but that sounds pretty bad. Would've been nice if you still had them to see the inside of one.

  • @mackjsm7105
    @mackjsm7105 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wow dude... this was a LOT of work.. ty

  • @mima85
    @mima85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That's the type of content the Internet is for, at least for us geeks/nerds :-D

  • @jondixon9094
    @jondixon9094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now this is something I’ve been looking for.

  • @spontanvideok246
    @spontanvideok246 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wooow. This amazing Video. Very wonderful Old HDD sounds my Childhood😍. I love spinning up and heads detected sounds.😍👌👍👍❤❤Please more more more video.

  • @ryonbrand7885
    @ryonbrand7885 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I put a WD Blue 4TB in my PC a while back, it makes a decently nice noise on startup, for a new hard drive, although I wish it was a bit louder.

  • @Raveseeker
    @Raveseeker ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vintage Nerd ASMR. Open it up, be transported back to the heady days of Eternal September.

  • @Techno-Universal
    @Techno-Universal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:46
    This would be the hard drives that they were possibly using in the computers within the Wonders Of Life pavilion in EPCOT! :)

  • @strikdevroblox9079
    @strikdevroblox9079 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every hard drive sound is satisfyingly

  • @samihsantos908
    @samihsantos908 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, this is awesome

  • @yourbigfan1777
    @yourbigfan1777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    8:42 and thats where the 1GB disks history began!

  • @aleksandarlenhart2078
    @aleksandarlenhart2078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:28 that sg jammin

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fact
      Then there's that western Digital boi that beats seagate with 1 megabyte of more capacity

  • @Stay_alert
    @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:45
    Sounds like a go-kart

  • @nicolabonazzi3305
    @nicolabonazzi3305 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The foking noise of the quantum fireball keep me company for 10y

  • @ErikS-
    @ErikS- ปีที่แล้ว +1

    14:38 - Let's call the controllerboard "FISH'N M16"

  • @hariranormal5584
    @hariranormal5584 ปีที่แล้ว

    some sounds like jet engine startup's. really beautiful and nostalgic anyhow

  • @doomer37
    @doomer37 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a very nice collection bro!

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @doomer37 After seeing a couple of your videos including a hard drive collection video, I wanted to ask you how you use your SCSI drives. I can't seem to find anything anywhere. I have Serial attached SCSI (SAS), and 60-pin SCSI. (60-pin looks exactly like 80-pin, but smaller. It's also called Ultra-3 SCSI) If you were to be able to help me out, I need to get one for a hard drive collection video I'm gonna do.

    • @doomer37
      @doomer37 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stay_alert Well firstly SAS is a completely different standard than SCSI. I don't have a controller for that. I do have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI card for PCI. So far it's been able to interface with every SCSI drive I own. You can even boot from it.

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@doomer37 Okay, where can I get one? Also, are you sure it's 60-pin?

    • @doomer37
      @doomer37 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stay_alert There's no 60 pin, there is 68 pin though. it has a 50 and 68 connector, I use an adapter to use 80 pin SCSI. I'd recommend ebay.

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@doomer37 Okay. I know you said you don't have any of the other SCSI, but can you help me find something for that too?
      PS: Thanks for the advice. I'm kinda new to this stuff. ' '^

  • @randomyt666
    @randomyt666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That 6gb caviar drive has an almost identical seektest to the WD1600JS. It's so similar

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ ปีที่แล้ว

    such a memories from the past 😍

  • @precisionxt
    @precisionxt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Lo-fi sounds to seek to”

  • @VladAspida
    @VladAspida 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting hobby buddy.😁

  • @Sebiohazard
    @Sebiohazard 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastique merci !!!

  • @footballuniverse4768
    @footballuniverse4768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first regular drive had a meow at the end

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:47 it stats like a racing cars or F1

  • @matthewsvideos8235
    @matthewsvideos8235 ปีที่แล้ว

    Worst thing is Thai have had most of these drives at some point. I still have the early stepper 3.5 Seagate. Didn’t have the 5.25 Miniscribe.

  • @daniel5074
    @daniel5074 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love it

  • @HexagonalPrism19
    @HexagonalPrism19 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    19:11 Seagate U4

  • @razorkill8522
    @razorkill8522 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi. nice collection.
    I have a question.
    what can cause bad sectors?

  • @thegeforce6625
    @thegeforce6625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Also really like the sounds of the Samsung SHA-3062A. (would it be possible to make a extended spindle motor sound video of that drive?)

  • @greensheen8759
    @greensheen8759 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting, I've got some of the 2013 era HGSTs too and I'd always waited 10 seconds after shutdown to pull them out of the dock. Now I know it's more like 15 seconds for them to spin down fully

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah those HGST take a long time to spin down, they have 5 platters in them

  • @mr.steven1923
    @mr.steven1923 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can say what you want but the miniscribe 4:45 and the Maxtor 7850av 8:26 are the best bieutiful peaceful start up! And the seagate 2:12 !

  • @toddb930
    @toddb930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just think how many hard drive companies are left.

    • @lonely.toaster
      @lonely.toaster 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only three AFAIK. Seagate, WD, and Toshiba.

  • @Calisota
    @Calisota 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:37 More bass than any Trap music... Did not expect that but also Im not disappointed

  • @Zeddify
    @Zeddify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    15:13 hard drive go æEeEeEe.

  • @rnicoles9355
    @rnicoles9355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like these HDDs

  • @Stay_alert
    @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    11:20
    By far the weirdest drive you've got. XD

  • @theredytper
    @theredytper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The drive at 0:53 is a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV.

  • @grxninesix
    @grxninesix 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Toujours ton légendaire Seagate en début de vidéo ^^

    • @iSnarkTV
      @iSnarkTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tiens un français 🙂🙂

  • @miketech1024
    @miketech1024 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is music to me!

  • @patrickbateman3490
    @patrickbateman3490 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh yeah, the immortal Maxtor 7440AV :)
    Unfortunately most of the Maxtor that followed were of opostive quality :p
    Special mention to the bigfoot, with derouting no classic seek sequence.... And oh, luck boy, you've a CHAMP hdd :)

  • @ErictheRN
    @ErictheRN ปีที่แล้ว

    Nostalgic!!!!!!

  • @OpenGL4.6
    @OpenGL4.6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:20 Yes, failing heads.

    • @XLGaming
      @XLGaming ปีที่แล้ว

      could also be a degrading platter. those Malaysia Western Digital drives are known for being pretty terrible in general, so it could be a combination of both!

    • @OpenGL4.6
      @OpenGL4.6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XLGaming The Malaysia ones always ran too hot, resulting in head failures, PCB failures and media degradation.

  • @MyComputerStudios_
    @MyComputerStudios_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:00 this hdd was manufactured on 24th of May 1993

  • @Nintendo3D5
    @Nintendo3D5 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have similar 2009 Seagate drive, (w/ windows 7), except it has 192GB capacity, not 160

  • @volvotech7404
    @volvotech7404 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    17:28 i have that same WD500AAKX 500gb still in my pc with wd500 ssd. i have lot of those same older and new hdds

    • @imnotbeluga007
      @imnotbeluga007 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here. My ludicrously fragmented and slow boot drive. But it's more masked by the fan noise...

  • @retrotech486
    @retrotech486 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    that Seagate's ST-157 series was i think the last seagate's with stepper motor ;)

    • @HexagonalPrism19
      @HexagonalPrism19 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually that medal goes to the Seagate ST-351A/X at 1:25 :)

  • @HikikomoriDev
    @HikikomoriDev 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    These reports have a lot of detail to them...

  • @ATGM_Ace_n.e.e.t
    @ATGM_Ace_n.e.e.t ปีที่แล้ว

    old hard disks💟

  • @TheRagingSound
    @TheRagingSound ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @ACompExp
    @ACompExp 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did you make that transparent enclosure for the opened drives? Maybe some cut pieces of plastic taped together?

    • @randomyt666
      @randomyt666 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's cling wrap. I can't see any lines indicating tape.

    • @HexagonalPrism19
      @HexagonalPrism19 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@randomyt666 He uses clear DVD cases I believe he said that in a comment on one of his newer videos.

  • @smartguy9765
    @smartguy9765 ปีที่แล้ว

    No velociraptor?

  • @BluePikmin10422
    @BluePikmin10422 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:13 my dad had 2 of those running

  • @flozon5240
    @flozon5240 ปีที่แล้ว

    15:13 i have that exact same hard drive

  • @adinnugroho6544
    @adinnugroho6544 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:37 : It has some Bass Sound. I feel like listening Diesel Engine sound 😂

  • @fra93ilgrande
    @fra93ilgrande ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OMG I still have the Quantum Fireball 1GB 😂 has lots of bad sectors but still working and I could install Windows 95 again! 🤣

  • @Fisjjj
    @Fisjjj ปีที่แล้ว

    15:45 i have almost the same hard drive but with 26A at end instead 22A

  • @Null42x86
    @Null42x86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have you tried to do the backups of the drivers?

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think there isn't really nothing on there, bet most was formatted

  • @MyComputerStudios_
    @MyComputerStudios_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    16:13 One of my relative's old computer's hard disk sounded like this.

  • @yusufjaved9895
    @yusufjaved9895 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    cool

  • @YUMMIIIIIIIIIIIII
    @YUMMIIIIIIIIIIIII 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    how do i open up the round seagate drive

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not sure what drive you mean, but on most drives there's one or multiple screws hidden under the labels. Most drives use T8 torx screws to hold the cover in place (but not always, and sometimes the screws under the labels are using a different size bit)

  • @ACompExp
    @ACompExp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've heard that most Western Digital caviar hard drives from 1997 and 1998 are quite unreliable, as Western Digital was having some financial issues and they thought of making the hard drives for cheaper. So the Western Digital 22500 you have is known to slow like this, and it might die in a while. But except for that, there are barely any reliability issues for most Western Digital hard drives pre 1997 and post 1998, if they are taken care of properly.

    • @carlwheezerofsouls3273
      @carlwheezerofsouls3273 ปีที่แล้ว

      it seems like some of the most reliable hardrives are from either western digital, or seagate, at least when it comes to the more modern ones.

    • @razzledev
      @razzledev ปีที่แล้ว

      My 250GB WD drive has 31000 power on hours, still 0 failures or bad sectors.

  • @Kali_Krause
    @Kali_Krause 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never seen a Champ hard drive before. Did they only make them in parts of Europe?

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      some people say it's very rare to find one

    • @JeremyLevi
      @JeremyLevi ปีที่แล้ว

      I ran into one in the wild here in Canada, but only once.

    • @gshaw0
      @gshaw0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikixyz123 I've just been given a pile of them by a friend at a computer shop, very thin, half the height of a normal drive. Be interesting to see how many still work

  • @highwayautolife3155
    @highwayautolife3155 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Вся жизнь перед глазами прошла...

  • @Stefan_38
    @Stefan_38 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What are drive sectors?

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't really know how to explain well but every drive is split in sectors that each hold 512 bytes of data (4KB on some modern drives) and all have an unique adress. It's used to be able to find where the data is on the drive, when you store a file the file system records the adress of the sectors that file uses to be able to find it again.
      When I'm mentionning bad sectors it means that some sectors on the drive are not able to store data properly anymore.

  • @curiousnomadic
    @curiousnomadic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can't imagine the massive waste of money that went into all these.

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's just like any kind of hobby/collection. Is it worth it, probably not, do I enjoy messing with old drives and listening to their sounds? Yes I do, so I don't really care if it is not worth the money.

  • @stef_catalin_22
    @stef_catalin_22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:06

  • @getlingganyooger
    @getlingganyooger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:49 a floppy disk sound on background

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel like it adds authenticity.

    • @getlingganyooger
      @getlingganyooger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Stay_alert me too

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm pretty sure that happened on another drive, at 3:12.

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      4:15 as well.

    • @getlingganyooger
      @getlingganyooger 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stay_alert yeah i missed

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ ปีที่แล้ว

    0:21 what is, that black thing on the plate? wtf?

    • @sneugler
      @sneugler 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It uses the wind generated by the spinning platters to unlock the heads. Otherwise they can’t move in transit

    • @Radek__
      @Radek__ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sneugler I'm surprised.
      thanks

  • @micosstar
    @micosstar ปีที่แล้ว

    why so many? | yt recommend

  • @BimBims
    @BimBims 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gw punya 80 MB hdd 😂
    Itu rasanya kayak 8 TB saat ini 😂

  • @grady631
    @grady631 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It pisses me off that a hard drive from 2005 has more space than I do, fuck HP and their eMMC cost cutting.

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The amount of storage in some cheap laptops with eMMC is ridiculous, they are basically making brand new ewaste.

    • @grady631
      @grady631 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arnlol yeah, I'm gonna get an older used computer for cheaper than the laptop and have better specs than 2007 specs.

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  • @Sad_Bandy
    @Sad_Bandy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:15 is that miniscribe hard drive gay💀☠

  • @RealEpikCartfrenYT
    @RealEpikCartfrenYT ปีที่แล้ว

    Too many bad sectors

  • @razorkill8522
    @razorkill8522 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi. nice collection.
    I have a question.
    what can cause bad sectors?

    • @mathmos2526
      @mathmos2526 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hard drive sectors are planted with magnetic particles that flip when stimuled by the magnetic field of the heads, a bad Sector can be caused by old Age, phisical shock, too much use, boot Sector viruses, PBC issues and heat😊

    • @mathmos2526
      @mathmos2526 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And if you use your hard drive for very long periods at once , that can also cause bad sectors