I am so glad you were able to get most of these drives going again! The 5.25" Rodime R05125S is incredible! It just sounds so cool initializing and booting. The Q250 that kept freezing is crazy you got it going enough to even boot, that is the most amount of bad sectors on a drive that still boots I have seen! So glad you got this lot and glad you got many working drives out of it, it still is a shame about the 3.5" Rodime drives and the RO652 but at least you have the one with the repaired band that works for now. The video was entertaining to watch and see the results of all the drives! Also I do wonder if it would be possible if the band did break on the repaired RO652 if it would be possible to swap the band from the now dead RO652?
Well you haven’t seen some of the drives in my collection, I have drives that are even worse than that Q250 that I still managed to have boot windows ahah. Yes I think the band from the now dead one could be swapped in alongside the stepper motor it’s attached to, but it would be a difficult process that I’m really not sure I would succeed at. So far this drive will stay like it is, and hopefully the super glue holds for a while. The heads should be rotating freely so I guess there’s not that much force on that bond, hopefully it can hold.
@@arnlol That is crazy how many drives you can get to boot that shouldn't be able to wow. Would be interesting to see if you really could swap in the band and the stepper motor successfully! I'm sure with enough practice it could be done though, just won't be easy I can agree. Imagine the super glue just holds forever : ))
Man I miss these noises. Reminds me of being little again. I got a 10,000RPM 500GB Velociraptor to put fan games/old emus and mp3 on to try and get a bit of performance and nostalgia at the same time. It sounds cool and nostalgic, but these you have sound better and remind me of going to visit my Grandmother at work and hearing that noise coming from the "advanced" computers in the factory. Good times.
Voliciraptors are probably quite loud but yeah really old drives like this just don't sound the same. I never got to hear drives as old as those when I was young, what I heard was stuff from the mid 90s onwards, which is probably why most of my collection is drives from that era, from a few 100s megs to a few GBs.
Ahah I think the first one was worse as far as volume of the bang, but the second one was more spectacular with visible sparks etc. I was quite worried when I plugged it back in after that… mind you before I powered the drive on I checked if there was a short to ground, and there wasn’t, the caps decided to fail as soon as power was applied.
That first rodime drive made an impressive BANG. If you want an example of a faulty rodime just look at Connors computer camp's video on it. I highly doubt those rodimes will last for long
Just read up on what happened to Rodime and they now a betting company lol Also I’d like to see a benchmark on that miniscribe, the steeper motor sounds awesome on it
@@JankPods0201 Yes they are amazing, sadly they often aren’t easy to get due to the insane prices people want for them. I’m glad I could get this lot and it went decently well.
@@arnlol Yeah, Except for the Rodimes that went Bang. Glad you got some of them working. I'm wanting to start a collection just like you have, But I would quickly run out of space in my room, lol.
@@JankPods0201 well drives don’t take that much space but of course space probably isn’t the only concern I assume. Also you can make a collection of a few drives only, maybe ones that you really like, maybe some you can get for cheap, your choice, it doesn’t have to get as large as mine is now.
@@arnlol Yeah you're right. Why would I even own 300+ drives anyways? Finding drives that I like the most is a good decision, But the collection may expand if I have the time, money and space. It may start off as a collection of 10, But it could get bigger.
Do the Q250s really run that hot? The second one may have some bearing wear. I had an 8425SA in my Macintosh SE. It was first an external drive, then I drilled the bottom of the floppy disk drive bracket so I could put it inside the computer itself. They would have been great drives if it wasn't for the mechanical problems associated with the rack and pinion mechanism; they have extensive built-in diagnostics and are even self-parking.
No the Q250s don’t seem to really run hotter than the other 5.25 drives I have experienced so far. As far as I know the 8425SA was very commonly used in MACs (well the A at the end might actually indicate that it’s an apple approved drive or something like that?). I don’t really know what’s the implications of the rack and pinion construction aside from that supposedly being slower than a band, I guess maybe they wore out? Despite the nasty squeal when I first started the drive up it works great so far with just a single bad sector.
@@arnlol they were commonly used in the macintosh SE before apple signed a contract with quantum, thats why the fireballs also have SCSI versions. Idk what happened but it seems when steve jobs returned to apple he ended the contract
Pas mal tous ça mais ouvrir les disques sur pour les réparé ça ne crain pas peux ? Je suis étonné que le disque dur explosif aille fonctionné avec 2 résistances en moins
Sur les disques aussi ancien les tolérances sont plus importantes, donc c'est possible d'essayer de les réparer, de toute façon il faut mieux ça qu'un disque qui ne fonctionne pas du tout, mais oui ce n'est pas recommandé et je n'ouvre pas les disques qui fonctionnent correctement bien sur.
@@jjohnson71958 Well I use a lot of different tools. Here I used hdmotion to quickly see if the drives were "decent" or not, that’s no meant to be a dignostic tool though it just makes the drives seek in interesting patterns. When I actually test drives I often use MHDD to do a surface scan on them, version 3.0 if the drive only supports CHS addressing. MHDD isn’t great for very low capacity SCSI drives like these though, it will show a small number of blocks and will just say they are all slow. Here I just scanned them with scandisk and ndd (Norton disk doctor) to mark the sectors as bad. Victoria also is a great tool to scan drives, it runs under Windows so it can be used with USB stuff too.
@@arnlol Calibrate is a very good utility for ST506 interface drives. The pattern testing feature will find media defects most software won't- and it's non-destructive.
@@arnlol Wish they were LOUD and much more interesting than now. Would be cool to hear some loud desktop class drives - so far the loudest one might be my DT01ACA050 and I can hear it inside my microtower with the cover closed.
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I am so glad you were able to get most of these drives going again! The 5.25" Rodime R05125S is incredible! It just sounds so cool initializing and booting. The Q250 that kept freezing is crazy you got it going enough to even boot, that is the most amount of bad sectors on a drive that still boots I have seen! So glad you got this lot and glad you got many working drives out of it, it still is a shame about the 3.5" Rodime drives and the RO652 but at least you have the one with the repaired band that works for now. The video was entertaining to watch and see the results of all the drives! Also I do wonder if it would be possible if the band did break on the repaired RO652 if it would be possible to swap the band from the now dead RO652?
Well you haven’t seen some of the drives in my collection, I have drives that are even worse than that Q250 that I still managed to have boot windows ahah.
Yes I think the band from the now dead one could be swapped in alongside the stepper motor it’s attached to, but it would be a difficult process that I’m really not sure I would succeed at. So far this drive will stay like it is, and hopefully the super glue holds for a while. The heads should be rotating freely so I guess there’s not that much force on that bond, hopefully it can hold.
@@arnlol That is crazy how many drives you can get to boot that shouldn't be able to wow. Would be interesting to see if you really could swap in the band and the stepper motor successfully! I'm sure with enough practice it could be done though, just won't be easy I can agree. Imagine the super glue just holds forever : ))
2:28 That Rodime drive for sure came out of chernobyl
Ah what? Nah, old tantalum capacitors just like to blow up, I've been lucky that it hasn't happened that often so far tbh
Cool old hard drives!
29:21 I really like the hard drive quantum q250.
Yeah the Q250 is a nice drive, I was kinda dismissing them at first but they sound great. Those were used in some early models of apple machines
Man I miss these noises. Reminds me of being little again. I got a 10,000RPM 500GB Velociraptor to put fan games/old emus and mp3 on to try and get a bit of performance and nostalgia at the same time. It sounds cool and nostalgic, but these you have sound better and remind me of going to visit my Grandmother at work and hearing that noise coming from the "advanced" computers in the factory. Good times.
Voliciraptors are probably quite loud but yeah really old drives like this just don't sound the same. I never got to hear drives as old as those when I was young, what I heard was stuff from the mid 90s onwards, which is probably why most of my collection is drives from that era, from a few 100s megs to a few GBs.
2:38 "OH MY GOD!!!" 😂😂😂😂
2:29 Jumpscare
2:37 Even worse jumpscare (oh my gud)
Ahah I think the first one was worse as far as volume of the bang, but the second one was more spectacular with visible sparks etc. I was quite worried when I plugged it back in after that… mind you before I powered the drive on I checked if there was a short to ground, and there wasn’t, the caps decided to fail as soon as power was applied.
@@arnlol Don't actually plug something back in after it exploded because it might explode a 2nd time
@@notsoseagatey Well I removed the caps that exploded but it was another cap that failed the second time. I hope that there wont be more in the future
@@arnlol Well ive never heard of tantalum capacitors blowing up unless it has a fault or defect. Mostly just electrolytic. Could be wrong though
oh man I love that miniscribe! that sound it makes is truly golden
Yes stepper based miniscribes are obnoxiously loud but I actually love it they sound great!
@@arnlolsounds like a floppy lol
I love old hard drives.
i got a lot of 10 untested hard drive and got pretty lucky since all of them worked. most of them were western digitals from the mid 90s
That first rodime drive made an impressive BANG. If you want an example of a faulty rodime just look at Connors computer camp's video on it. I highly doubt those rodimes will last for long
Well the two voice coil ones similar to his were both bad (which was annoying but what can you do...). I hope one day i'll find one of those that work
Just read up on what happened to Rodime and they now a betting company lol
Also I’d like to see a benchmark on that miniscribe, the steeper motor sounds awesome on it
Yep. Sounds like a floppy and is pretty nice.
Shame about the 1 bad cl though
5:17 half-life sound, lol
Drives fron the late 80s and the early 90s will always be my favourite.
@@JankPods0201 Yes they are amazing, sadly they often aren’t easy to get due to the insane prices people want for them. I’m glad I could get this lot and it went decently well.
@@arnlol Yeah, Except for the Rodimes that went Bang. Glad you got some of them working. I'm wanting to start a collection just like you have, But I would quickly run out of space in my room, lol.
@@JankPods0201 well drives don’t take that much space but of course space probably isn’t the only concern I assume. Also you can make a collection of a few drives only, maybe ones that you really like, maybe some you can get for cheap, your choice, it doesn’t have to get as large as mine is now.
@@arnlol Yeah you're right. Why would I even own 300+ drives anyways? Finding drives that I like the most is a good decision, But the collection may expand if I have the time, money and space. It may start off as a collection of 10, But it could get bigger.
Do the Q250s really run that hot? The second one may have some bearing wear.
I had an 8425SA in my Macintosh SE. It was first an external drive, then I drilled the bottom of the floppy disk drive bracket so I could put it inside the computer itself. They would have been great drives if it wasn't for the mechanical problems associated with the rack and pinion mechanism; they have extensive built-in diagnostics and are even self-parking.
No the Q250s don’t seem to really run hotter than the other 5.25 drives I have experienced so far.
As far as I know the 8425SA was very commonly used in MACs (well the A at the end might actually indicate that it’s an apple approved drive or something like that?). I don’t really know what’s the implications of the rack and pinion construction aside from that supposedly being slower than a band, I guess maybe they wore out? Despite the nasty squeal when I first started the drive up it works great so far with just a single bad sector.
@@arnlol they were commonly used in the macintosh SE before apple signed a contract with quantum, thats why the fireballs also have SCSI versions. Idk what happened but it seems when steve jobs returned to apple he ended the contract
(joke)
There is no difference between a cat and the RO652 hard drive. Both are noisy, both need energy, and both purr, lol
How much was the shipping and duties?
The lot was 150€, shipping 11€, site fee 6€ (on leboncoin it’s the buyers that pay the site fees not the sellers like on eBay), for a total of 167€
how do you cut the dvd cases for the drive cover? i cant do it. cool video as always
Well I reused one from one of the clear covered drives that failed, but when I did cut those I think I just used a utility knife
@@arnlol oh well, i don't have skills to do that so i'll probably order acryllic pieces then
@@arnlol which drive? the maxtor dm+9?
@@Mathmos252 no i think it was the newer seagate (newer than both st3491a and ata iv)
@@notsoseagatey i see, it was already dead before he clear covered it btw
Pas mal tous ça mais ouvrir les disques sur pour les réparé ça ne crain pas peux ? Je suis étonné que le disque dur explosif aille fonctionné avec 2 résistances en moins
Sur les disques aussi ancien les tolérances sont plus importantes, donc c'est possible d'essayer de les réparer, de toute façon il faut mieux ça qu'un disque qui ne fonctionne pas du tout, mais oui ce n'est pas recommandé et je n'ouvre pas les disques qui fonctionnent correctement bien sur.
whats the name of the drive checking softwre that you use
@@jjohnson71958 Well I use a lot of different tools. Here I used hdmotion to quickly see if the drives were "decent" or not, that’s no meant to be a dignostic tool though it just makes the drives seek in interesting patterns. When I actually test drives I often use MHDD to do a surface scan on them, version 3.0 if the drive only supports CHS addressing. MHDD isn’t great for very low capacity SCSI drives like these though, it will show a small number of blocks and will just say they are all slow. Here I just scanned them with scandisk and ndd (Norton disk doctor) to mark the sectors as bad. Victoria also is a great tool to scan drives, it runs under Windows so it can be used with USB stuff too.
Scandisk, if you have dos and speedsys
@@arnlol Calibrate is a very good utility for ST506 interface drives. The pattern testing feature will find media defects most software won't- and it's non-destructive.
@@hatsumi_rou_ where can i download speedsys
miniscribe sounds like a floppy lmao
Man hard drives just arent as cool as they used to be.
Yeah, they store a LOT more data, but otherwise are pretty boring compared to the old stuff
@@arnlol Wish they were LOUD and much more interesting than now. Would be cool to hear some loud desktop class drives - so far the loudest one might be my DT01ACA050 and I can hear it inside my microtower with the cover closed.