Quantum 2040 8" Hard Drive First Power up.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2014
- First start up of an old 8" Quantum Hard drive. Skip to 5:30 for startup.
Spindle motor runs off of 115v AC.
The Controller board is missing, so there's no chance of connecting this to a computer of any kind.
Date stamped on the name plate says 1981. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Imagine how many terabytes they could cram into a drive of those dimensions today.
That would be awesome. Probably several hundred terabytes.
+Devin2277 It's an order of magnitude more if they can use flash. A 16 TB SSD in 2.5 inch form factor exists. Those drives are up to ~10 mm thick; giving it a volume of up to ~70 000 mm^3.
I would say the drive you have looks to be about 9 inches wide (8 inch drive = 8 inch platter), 5 inches tall and 12 inches deep. That fits 126 of those drives, or 2 petabytes. Stacking 2.5 inch drives waste space; you can probably double that if you just stack PCBs full of flash.
+Jerkwad152 just wondered myself, why the feck no one does that
Jerkwad152 a Peta byte
Oh, I know, the amount of storage on a drive like this would be unbelievable.
Power up starts at 5:30, you're welcome.
Thanks?
Turn this thing on in a library!
Yes XD
"Just using my portable hard drive"
No.
It has BELT-DRIVEN platters! OMG. It looks like some of the old VCR mechanisms!
5.25 inch HDD drives were the first to use a BLDC spindle hard drive starting in 1980. At the time they were way faster than floppies and make a cool spool up sound. They draw about 24 watts continuous and 36 watts peak.
Brings me back. I had a friend who worked at Quantum doing final QA... he'd occasionally mark a unit as scrap, rework it, and sell it to us. When these were new, they retailed for about three grand each. I had dual 40(ish)MB RLL drives in my 286 system, and ran them for years. I'll never forget that sound...
The bearings often need oil when it gets this old which it definitely sounds like it now!
I used to work on submarines. both the fire control system and sonar systems used hard drives that seem similar to this one. I think ours were slightly bigger and maybe around 20 lbs. subs were still using them around 2001.
110V 1A
Damn. And it sure sounds like it too!
I was thinking like 40:1 leaded gasoline and oil mix..it's not the computer you fire up past your bedtime trying to keep quiet so your parents don't find out that you're looking at porn... 1981 A.D. is when the Excalibur movie came out.
@@brentfisher902 my dad said that he used to wrap his floppy drive in his duvet when he played games at night so that his parents wouldn't hear
Those were cool but the hard drive that makes the best sound were the 5.25 inch hard drives that use stepper motor heads and a direct drive BLDC platter.
@@davidperry4013 Just realized the motor has a rating of 1/37HP. LOL
That thing is gigantic! that transparent plastic on top is cool. It would be neat to see hard drives use that now.
Right! That would be cool to have, since a lot of cases have side windows, and then to have a hard drive that you could see the inside would be awesome.
But everything is going to SSD's now, so no moving parts to look at.
Tr3vor42532 The raptor drives from a few years ago had glass tops
Slot1Gamer Yeah I miss those bad.
Is that transparent plastic a part of the original hard drive or added by somebody else? Pretty cool if its original and the manufacturer added it there for trouble shooting.
I think there were a few newer harddrives that had a window.
That is...beautiful.
I'm a bit of a hard drive enthusiast, and I'm one of the weird guys who enjoys the spindle motor sound. That kind of sound is the only reason I haven't replaced the Quantum Fireball Plus in my Pentium III. Of course...it's not quite that loud lol.
And check out that glass frame... Woah.
That was the Jurassic era of comouters.
The PCB plug poking out of the top of the Hard Drive is for a circuit board edge plug which has cables which run directly to the "full length" dedicated controller circuit board. The HD controller board required no additional drivers as it booted up with the motherboard and worked though the ISA M/B sockets.
Ahh! Cool! Thanks for the info.
Imagine going into a petabytes server back in the 80's that full of that loud creepy hard drive sounds
It sounds like those old air raid alarms
totally does
Old and crusty just how I like em
Sounds like the belt is a bit loose. The motor spools up before the disc is fully wound up. Even if you had the controller for it, you'd probably get data errors. I have a 1982 Xerox 820-II with a Shugart 8" 10mb. MFM drive and it's also belt drive, but the belt is still in pretty good shape. It runs CP-M 2.2 and still works well.😉
wow! that is so cool! that must have been one computer to use!
having a data center run 100,000 of those would be insane
Think of the electric bill just for the air conditioning alone.
That's amazing! I think my grinder makes less noise when I grind through 8 inches of steel :-)
5:31. Is that an... Airbus A380?!?
+Rithik Kumar Nope! Just the engine from one.
Devin2277 xD
sounds closer to a JT8D :p
+Devin2277 inside of rotor that moves plates is totally rusted
+smutkovski you know this?
Now that's a hard drive.
Thats not a hard drive, now this is a hard drive lol
No....its a motorcycle
I wonder how much the drive would have costed when it was brand new... Wow. First time I've ever seen a belt driven hard drive, as well as a hard drive that is fan cooled!! Damn that thing is so unique!!!
A lot!! I'm thinking it cost more than most people's houses did at the time.
If I remember I'll get you some part numbers off of mine, since it still has it's controller
even though you gave me the skip to run time I simply couldn't what you had to say was far to fascinating it was cool seeing that old quantum and it's computer case to I never get to see inside the case.
Haha, boy, that really makes you appreciate the BDC motors and everything else in the bearings that make today's hard disk drives so quiet, doesn't it?
Oh Crap! What a HardDrive! awsome!
5:12 "I'm hoping nothing will blow up" - This makes me sad :(, the very least I would have done iks cleaned the terminals on that power supply and used bucketloads of contact cleaner on it, and powered it up without a vintage HDD plugged into it D:
Glad to see it somehow survived though.
Ah such a soothing sound. 😴
So is a dentists drill.
The 14-inch Fujistu disk drives on the minicomputer I was working on in 1984 were quieter.
OMG, i wish i could here that lovely harsh sound in person. well that and here the reader head going to town.
It's quite the dominating sound. It definitely makes itself known while it's running.
Crap! I accidentally deleted your comment.
But yes, I've had a couple of Bigfoot drives. But they weren't very reliable and stopped working.
HAH, so i guss im not the only one then.at the same time i have has a 20gb maxtor drive that is been super reliable. no bad sectors and over 7 years of power on time. i use it for keeping my music.
for there times thay are, but these days you better off with a low end sata. i you want the modern day equivalent get somthing like a Seagate cheetah Hard drive. if you need hard drive benchmark software i recommend "hard drive tune pro".
its been a while is i poked around with them. if you wanna truly know. compare them to your similar ide drives in different benchmarks. in hd tune pro i like the random access benchmark. more operations a second, the better the reader head is at finding files scatted in the drive.
I have same hard drive but with data port now just wish i knew what this connector is
From 1981, like me. So huge then !
Man it has a start /run cap like on an ac unit ..
Cool HDD!
Omg that sound!
Maybe it can be retrofitted to cut material?
The perfect hard drive for you laptop or notebook.
Where do you want to find the controller board?
thats badass...i woukd totaly wait to boot from that....slik
it would be perfect for storing files onto
Living room pc Hdd ? Taht Sound is really nice
Does that 1981 hard drive still work? True or False
belt driven hard drive
Thats a big motor.
that as I can get a device like this I would like to have one as well as the one in the video
does this take 11,000V to power up? Sounds like a lift motor haha
Where do the hamsters go that power it?
can it run crysis?
My dad has one of these..... We recently recovered data off it slow very slow
I paid $1,700 for a 40 MEG drive, when PCs first came out.
How old is it? Early 80s? late 70s?
A VERY good question. Without the circuit board with chips on it, there are no date codes to see. However, 1981 is stamped in very tiny numbers on the spec label. So there ya go. 1981.
I believe the Q2020 was actually 20mb.
Buy the controler broad and plug it in a window 8 pc
what you rigged it too?
What is the voltage input on this drive? I read that it's 24V AC, but the motor can says 115V AC
Ryan Ashford The motor is 115v AC, yes. There is no controller board, so no other voltages are required here.
@@kaiyoshi2243 So even if you have the controller board with it, you still run 115V AC to the connector?
Ryan Ashford There would be two connectors, one for the DC voltage for the controller and one for the AC to the spindle motor.
@@kaiyoshi2243 Thanks!
Did you put out your back trying to carry that?
Nope. It only weighs about 40lbs
@@kaiyoshi2243 interesting
SMOKE TEST! damn used to be standard in 8088 or 8086? like 4.73Mhz at the time.. damn times have changed!
Not even that, PC XT 8086 era computers used 5" and 3.5" HDDs
wow big. i have seen much biger at computer store few years ago it was so large
That's what she said.
ps4 pro : finally a worthy opponent
Are you sure that this beast is only 38MB? In 1981 there was a 5" Drives about 5MB and 10MB,so this monster could be at least 300MB or 3GB
According to the model number, it's a 38mb drive.
@@kaiyoshi2243 this is just crazy :D
good use for nes games
What is its capacity? Any idea what year it was manufactured? That thing is huge.
40mb capacity, the 2020 model was 20mb. My work used these 1983/84. Put loads of these in the junk skip, wish i'd kept a few.
the 2040 is 40mb capacity, I would guess from 1985
1981 was the year
Oi. Is that a hard drive, or a popcorn maker?
6:36 it is so loud although it only runs at 2900 or 3500 rpm...
it sounds like a old washing machine:DDD
please more RGB led on this
Warp 9 Mr Scott!
That's impossible. She can't go that fast.
Warp Ten. Warp eleven! It just wont stop!
Sounds like gyros running on an INS
hi! could you list the original MSRP prices?
I'm not sure if there is such a thing. This hard drive would have been part of a custom mainframe build. If I had to guess though, probably around $10 to 20 grand.
@@kaiyoshi2243 20K?????????????????
bearings
PSC motors were very reliable
a resonance cascade! xD
Hmm, I wonder why the controller board came up missing.
Not sure, cause the platters and heads look fine on this drive.
@@kaiyoshi2243: Yeah, you're right.
I was expecting a diesel engine cold start sound... 🤣
Man, that would've been SOO ANNOYING to hear all the time of using the computer! I remember when many hard drives had that loud sort of spindle motor sound. But why would a motor that size have to be that loud instead of just sounding like, or even being, an induction motor? There's no way they could've made the disk spin fast enough with even a brushless AC motor?
Well this is a 14 inch drive, so it would have been inside a mainframe in it's own room. But imagine about 10 of these things going. lol
@@kaiyoshi2243: A mainframe in "IT IS own room"? I'm confused. How can it _be_ its own room? Or were you actually trying to say "in ITS own room"? Because if so, then my response to that is: Oh, OK, good! I'm glad people didn't have to hear that all the time while operating. But yeah, a room with 10 those disk drives running at the same time would be quite noisy!
Sounds like my laptop.
To anyone thinking this is gigantic: search for "IBM 3380 head disk assembly".
it sounds like an old elevator engine
Damn it man what is with the circuitry missing for all these hard drives I keep trying to find all these really awesome hard drive videos and 90% of them are like yeah but the circuit tree for it to make it work is gone so goddamn disappointing
I hear ya! Well most of these huge hard drives were designed to run on MainFrame computers which most have been shoveled off to the dumps. Only the smaller pieces like these hard drives are left. So there's just nothing to connect them to. They were never designed to connect to an x86 PC.
@@kaiyoshi2243 perhaps someone like mr. Carlson's lab and create some circuitry or re-engineer something it would be a total waste not to ever see one of these work again they are too beautiful pieces of equipment and deserve to be preserved in some way there has to be a way
@@kaiyoshi2243 are you a furry to
@@ethanspaziani5269 I dabble in lots of different hobbies. Furries is just one of them.
@@kaiyoshi2243 hayy im a furry to in tx !
Like in doom3 sound )))
Nuclear Siren
How much memory does it have ?
He says it in di video 😉
@@Jobsmines Yes you're right. I don't know why I didn't heard it the first time I watched it 🤔😅
Try to connect to pc!!!
Hardcore Drive
I've never seen a hard drive that desperately needs a motor oil tune-up from a car mechanic.
You can fit 3-5 Justin Bieber MP3s on that thing.
does it support NTFS ?
Why not, the file system does not metter. The HDD do no care about this :D
@@intel386DX I meant it doesn't have enough capacity for this file system
@@mathis6166 what is the smallest partition that NTFS support? I read here that the minimum partition size for NTFS is 8MB so, you can :D
www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22503454/The-minimum-size-of-NTFS-partition-Windows-NT.html
Yow what's di RPM on dat
At 6:34 you can see a shield on the motor. It makes 3500rpm :)
That would be about 3500 RPMs.
Hook it up to your windows 10 pc. I wonder what would happen Lol
"From ebay"? No ya didn't. Ebay doesn't sell anything except listing privileges, premium features, and product insurance packages.
I know! Right.
@@kaiyoshi2243: If you know that already, then it makes me wonder why you said "from" instead of "on" or "through."
can run windows xp on it ;)
This is a 38 megabyte hard drive. But maybe some day I'll try XP on it.
8 MB for a huge HDD this HDD can store lots of gigs in modern days
+Squinky Aventurierul Lots of terabytes dude, imagine making a drive of this size with the technology of today, probably 140TB
OMG 140 TB can store your brain data in it
***** Actually no, you need roughly 2.5 petabytes to do that, which equals over 3000 terabytes
Furrys and old hdd perfect lol
Also you know something is old when u have to add oil to something that's used 4 data
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Wtf that sounds like a vegans whine
My phone has more space than that
Your phone also wasn't from 1981
why.. what's wrong with your profile picture
You are the only person to seem to have a problem with the profile picture 😬
What does that even mean?? Lol🤣
so large hard disk have small size of memory
Where do you want to find the controller board?
I don't know
Devin2277 now I'm not saying you're a furry but your thumbnail makes me think of one