I’m actually impressed by some of these drives seektests. I always thought modern drives as being quite boring because they are so silent but some of these sound quite interesting
Ever heard the Caviars of that era? They sounded great. Favourite ones are WD1600AAJS (Pinclite variant) WD2500AAKX WD10EADS But yes, the new ones are too quiet. My 500GB Blue drive is so quiet
@@gregdaweson4657I have a WD black “gaming” 6TB drive that is actually louder than a lot of older drives when doing work. It also has a nice long spin up and seek test if you like that. It looks and sounds exactly like the 6TB red pro at 10:46. I believe the sizes for black drives other than 4TB and 6TB are different platforms though.
Modern SATA Drives are as interesting as old IDE Drives. Many of these drives make really interesting and unique sounds. Good video and great recordings!
3:00 I like sound of “Samsung SpinPoint 1TB” From iMac 2010 “27” 0:01 sound of “Western Digital Caviar 320GB Blue” seems like a my old AMD Athlon 64 X2 PC 4:36 My favorite sound HDD ever “Seagate Skyhawk 2TB” Used from 2020 I7-9700F Gaming PC
I got a 4TB WD My Passport, and though it's not very loud, I could listen to it starting up and clicking away all day long. So much more personality than SSDs
Im actually impressed to see the seagate barracuda es.2 340NS model here I remember that some of them had a rom bug that caused the hdd to have a fault too soon in its life. Had to fix a few until they could be replaced fun times.
It's interesting to hear what the WD6003FFBX-68MU3N0 sound like; these are rebadged HGST Vela drives. In contrast, Western Digital started taking the same HDAs and using their own firmware and heads in them, similar to what Toshiba had been doing for their DT02 series. Those are codenamed Avalon CR (6 TB 5,640 RPM), Avalon C5 (8 TB 5,640 RPM) or Avalon C (7,200 RPM). I have one of those, a WD80EAZZ-00BKLB0. The spinup sounds (except the start) somewhat the same, but the seek test is identical to that of an Apollo CR, which is a bit anticlimatic.
Yeah WD now uses their own technology in HGST HDAs for some drives. I thought that too, when I saw a WD Red WD60EFZX (Avalon C5). It has WD style SMART attributes and PCB number.
I also have a small collection of drives starting from an U5 30GB (My first drive back when I was a kid). I love your contents and it is truly encouraging to see a lot of history in your videos.
The WD40PURZ-85AKKY0 is an ApolloCR platform based HDD with a 64MB cache in which I have the WD Red Plus WD40EFZX (ApolloCR) with a 128MB cache and does a similar shutdown behavior as the WD40EFRX (Apollo) only when the drive enters into sleep mode (e.g. heads park then automatic shutdown). The screeching noise on these ApolloCR only happen at hard shutoff (e.g. drive unplugged or manually powered off). The funny thing is with a WD blue 4TB WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 (Venice) HDD in my PC does the screeching noises in all aspects of shutdown. Just an FYI the screeching sounds are the normal sounds of the head locking mechanism while the drive powers off.
Ye, the ApolloCR is a quite new family. I read somewhere that many HDDs turn the kinetic energy of the spindle into electric energy to park the heads when shutdown suddenly. If you unsolder a specific coil on the PCB, the HDD will die on the next sudden shutdown with stucked heads on the platters. How is the performance of the WD40EZAZ drive, since it's a SMR one?
@@Struukbessen it works fine! The performance of that drive is just like my WD20SDZW My passport external HDD when rewriting files because of it also being SMR. Im used to SMR performance although this drive may not be the best but works perfectly fine and efficiently when dumping and reading files!
Interestingly enough, it seems the drive itself reports 128 MB cache! At least, according to Victoria for my own WD20PURZ-85AKKY0. I would love to see if this is true or not.
Thank you so much you so much i know how ironic this sounds but i just built a brand new gaming pc and i tought my psu is failing, but it was just my hdd
Yes, it is - visually it appears to be from Seagate's Lombard family, which suggests that it was originally an ST4000DM000 or something very similar. The mention of "Product of Malaysia" is almost certainly wrong - most likely China or Thailand is correct.
The -1ER16X Series of the Seagate HDDs are a lot more reliable than the older -1CH16X or the -9YN16X series because I have the ST2000DM001-1ER164 HDD and has been working for almost 10 years!!
I also have a WD2003FYYS, but mine says the capacity on the label. They must have added that in a newer revision of this drive, because mine was manufactured in 2012.
The WD2003FYYS had an IBM OEM label in that area, normally the capacity is shown in that revision, too. The Samsung HD501LJ is in good condition. It has 7 reallocated sectors and 63400 power on hours. A full erase and sector scan didn't increase the number of reallocated sectors.
@@Struukbessen good to hear, my HD321KJ doesnt have a single reallocated sector, but a scan with Victoria Disk Manager showed 2 slow, 600ms sectors. I managed to speed the sectors up by writing to them a few times, which magnetized them enough so they're only 50ms sectors.
Seagate hard drives always have three wires connecting the PCB to the motor, the other manufacturers use four wires. Maybe it's because of this different design.
@@H53. not intentional, but an accident due to the change of the motor speed during startup, it uses more torque for a split second to get the disk moving, then goes to a lower power mode, making it kinda go BRR-rrrrrrrrrr
12:34 that actually sounds quite impressive.
Its a sound effect from Star Wars :-)
I’m actually impressed by some of these drives seektests. I always thought modern drives as being quite boring because they are so silent but some of these sound quite interesting
Ever heard the Caviars of that era? They sounded great. Favourite ones are
WD1600AAJS (Pinclite variant)
WD2500AAKX
WD10EADS
But yes, the new ones are too quiet. My 500GB Blue drive is so quiet
@@randomyt666 any new ones that make noise?
I like seagate barracuda 7200.11-7200.12 seektest sounds
And Constellation ES
@@gregdaweson4657I have a WD black “gaming” 6TB drive that is actually louder than a lot of older drives when doing work. It also has a nice long spin up and seek test if you like that. It looks and sounds exactly like the 6TB red pro at 10:46. I believe the sizes for black drives other than 4TB and 6TB are different platforms though.
Modern SATA Drives are as interesting as old IDE Drives. Many of these drives make really interesting and unique sounds. Good video and great recordings!
I got a 12TB barracuda pro and it sounds identical to the seagate ironwolf drive shown in the video. I love the sound of loud crunchy hard drives
0:36 now I realized that at least I have an old disk. These sounds are normal for him.
Those WDAV-GP drives run super hot. That's why in DirecTV receivers they are clamped to a heatsink.
So when I was younger, and I touched the DIRECTV unit. It was pretty warm and that is why?
@@hanks-dances-stuffyou’d be correct.
3:00 I like sound of “Samsung SpinPoint 1TB” From iMac 2010 “27”
0:01 sound of “Western Digital Caviar 320GB Blue” seems like a my old AMD Athlon 64 X2 PC
4:36 My favorite sound HDD ever “Seagate Skyhawk 2TB” Used from 2020 I7-9700F Gaming PC
I have the same seagate drive as at 1:44 in my pc, I love the startup and shut down sound of it
Me too, I have a different Seagate model, it's actually db35.3 and it's 300gb. Also it's ST3300820SCE
I got a 4TB WD My Passport, and though it's not very loud, I could listen to it starting up and clicking away all day long. So much more personality than SSDs
one thing hard drives will always have over ssds for me: the noises
that ironwolf drive at the end has a very interesting seektest! That sounds better than a lot of old drives!
Im actually impressed to see the seagate barracuda es.2 340NS model here I remember that some of them had a rom bug that caused the hdd to have a fault too soon in its life. Had to fix a few until they could be replaced fun times.
It's interesting to hear what the WD6003FFBX-68MU3N0 sound like; these are rebadged HGST Vela drives. In contrast, Western Digital started taking the same HDAs and using their own firmware and heads in them, similar to what Toshiba had been doing for their DT02 series. Those are codenamed Avalon CR (6 TB 5,640 RPM), Avalon C5 (8 TB 5,640 RPM) or Avalon C (7,200 RPM). I have one of those, a WD80EAZZ-00BKLB0. The spinup sounds (except the start) somewhat the same, but the seek test is identical to that of an Apollo CR, which is a bit anticlimatic.
Yeah WD now uses their own technology in HGST HDAs for some drives.
I thought that too, when I saw a WD Red WD60EFZX (Avalon C5). It has WD style SMART attributes and PCB number.
I also have a small collection of drives starting from an U5 30GB (My first drive back when I was a kid). I love your contents and it is truly encouraging to see a lot of history in your videos.
0:36 sounds just like my 2009 barracuda 1tb!
I love the Maxtor HDDs.. 😁
I have a IBM deskstar pata. Very distinct startup. Nice video!
3:01 THAT IS the Weirdest hdd startup i have ever heard
im suprised at all of the late 2000s and early 2010s hdds which surpass 1tb and top 4tb
8:34 That is a newer version of the WD40EFRX
3:31 i had this one and it was very loud, also it made the whole case rattle when it read stuff
I actually have one of the first drive you showed in this video which came out of an early 2009 iMac
0:52 Now, isn't that the sound the machine in Pony Island makes, when you start it up?
12TB, holy sheit 😍🔝
When I start my Seagate 1000 TB my neighbours fall out of bed ! ^^
1:40 didn't initialize. Clicked twice while trying to load service area
The screeching noise that most modern WD drives make when it is shutting down is normal.
The WD40PURZ-85AKKY0 is an ApolloCR platform based HDD with a 64MB cache in which I have the WD Red Plus WD40EFZX (ApolloCR) with a 128MB cache and does a similar shutdown behavior as the WD40EFRX (Apollo) only when the drive enters into sleep mode (e.g. heads park then automatic shutdown). The screeching noise on these ApolloCR only happen at hard shutoff (e.g. drive unplugged or manually powered off). The funny thing is with a WD blue 4TB WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 (Venice) HDD in my PC does the screeching noises in all aspects of shutdown. Just an FYI the screeching sounds are the normal sounds of the head locking mechanism while the drive powers off.
Ye, the ApolloCR is a quite new family. I read somewhere that many HDDs turn the kinetic energy of the spindle into electric energy to park the heads when shutdown suddenly. If you unsolder a specific coil on the PCB, the HDD will die on the next sudden shutdown with stucked heads on the platters.
How is the performance of the WD40EZAZ drive, since it's a SMR one?
@@Struukbessen it works fine! The performance of that drive is just like my WD20SDZW My passport external HDD when rewriting files because of it also being SMR. Im used to SMR performance although this drive may not be the best but works perfectly fine and efficiently when dumping and reading files!
Interestingly enough, it seems the drive itself reports 128 MB cache! At least, according to Victoria for my own WD20PURZ-85AKKY0. I would love to see if this is true or not.
Thank you so much you so much i know how ironic this sounds but i just built a brand new gaming pc and i tought my psu is failing, but it was just my hdd
7:44 Is this a rebranded Seagate drive?
Yes, it is - visually it appears to be from Seagate's Lombard family, which suggests that it was originally an ST4000DM000 or something very similar. The mention of "Product of Malaysia" is almost certainly wrong - most likely China or Thailand is correct.
@@aprilkolwey4779 Okay, but when I heard the spinup of the drive, I was very confused. But thanks for helping me.
Yes, refurbished and rebranded. Same as 'Mediamax' for refurbished WD drives. Cheap HDDs with higher chances to fail again.
I hear these drives have a higher tendency of failing than the ironwolf 4tb which spins up much faster than the rebranded st4000dm000!
09:49 is a rebadged HGST drive, they can be quite loud if in use.
I have three of these in use.
I bet its a nice orchestra
3:28 the very first Hitachi UltraStar to use LG's Direct Drive technology
Very cool! Modern drives are underrated. What I am curious is what drive do I keep hearing ticking away in the background?
That noise is a power supply of a LiPo charger, I didn't even hear it when filming
yt recommed | fascinating
Heh I used to use WD greens, then reds and now SSDs. My last HDD was WD black 4TB.
The -1ER16X Series of the Seagate HDDs are a lot more reliable than the older -1CH16X or the -9YN16X series because I have the ST2000DM001-1ER164 HDD and has been working for almost 10 years!!
Cool Video!
Nice video
I have the 160gb version of the first hard drive
I also have a WD2003FYYS, but mine says the capacity on the label. They must have added that in a newer revision of this drive, because mine was manufactured in 2012.
The WD2003FYYS had an IBM OEM label in that area, normally the capacity is shown in that revision, too.
The Samsung HD501LJ is in good condition. It has 7 reallocated sectors and 63400 power on hours. A full erase and sector scan didn't increase the number of reallocated sectors.
@@Struukbessen good to hear, my HD321KJ doesnt have a single reallocated sector, but a scan with Victoria Disk Manager showed 2 slow, 600ms sectors. I managed to speed the sectors up by writing to them a few times, which magnetized them enough so they're only 50ms sectors.
Are all of these working? The difference in sounds is interesting to hear thx for sharing
yes, all were working at the time of recording. some drives are sold now
Not a bad collection, do you only collect voice coil stuff?
sounds like most of them already failed or close to failure
4:00 I thought it would make a 13000 RPM Hard Drive but ok
(Read label)
Why are the 10 and 12 TB Ironwolf hard drives so noisy?
6:21 Isn’t that the drive Seagate made that was unreliable?
It's one of them (Grenada family), yes. I've had okay luck with later-production ones like the one in the video.
What do you mean unreliable? I have one in my PC
0:41 that sound is my problem how can I fix it?
Anyone knows why seagate seems to have specific sound on the very start?
Seagate hard drives always have three wires connecting the PCB to the motor, the other manufacturers use four wires. Maybe it's because of this different design.
@@Struukbessen thanks
Are the sounds normal for the wd's harddrive...they sound as if they broken or damaged
Yes, I used have one and one of them sounded like a gieger counter
My wd3200aajs bad sector☹️ 00:01
I'm from Indonesia
That's sad. But these drives have become very cheap.
@@Struukbessen ok
Are some of these hdd broken
Nope! these are what they’re supposed to sound like, some of them make a little start-up chime, like a little robot “Hello!”
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Intentional to sound like 'Hello'?
@@H53. not intentional, but an accident due to the change of the motor speed during startup, it uses more torque for a split second to get the disk moving, then goes to a lower power mode, making it kinda go BRR-rrrrrrrrrr
Is this normal??....
12:00 knock knock