HDD startup sounds are just as cool as car engine startups in my opinion. The Hitachi Deskstar at 3:58 is especially awesome, it sounds like a UFO taking off!

The only thing I love about old Seagate drives is their epic spindle-start sounds.

Hard to believe that in a few more years, these sounds may never be heard again in real computers. I still remember the sound of my first hard drive -- an 85MB Maxtor. Talk about an epic startup sound! Every time you powered on the PC, you'd swear the case would explode at any second.

Love these sounds, brings nostalgia

if you notice some of the higher capacity drives take a bit longer to spin up before engaging the heads (possibly due to more platters)

Thanks for recording such clear sounds! It's been a while since I had a HDD, and the loud startup sound on my 2TB Barracuda scared me, but this video has reassured me. Guess my old HDD were all just smaller and had slower (and quieter) startups

Needle of a WD: *starts moving* Me: *How many Roentgen?*

I just made my first build not too long ago and i had a 2tb HDD for storage and was freaking out about these sounds, thinking I damaged them or something! now that I know its normal, ive come to really appreciate them, it just sounds so cool. Thanks for the vid! for giving me peace of mind and letting me hear all sorts of HDD startup sounds, great stuff

5:12 ST500DM002 got only 1 disk inside, that´s why it spins up so fast

This is very relaxing. I just loved the startup sound of hard drive especially the older one (even better when combined with a floppy drive seek sound). The amount of engineering goes into making hard drives always amazes me. Please make more videos, cheers!

I have 3 of those Seagate drives in my PC, they are great drives.

you take very good care of your hard drives, I have a wd blue drive being held in with 1 screw holding down for dear life all these years and it works, those engineers are really good at making storage

FranzJ presents

OMG, what a nostalgic sounds. Thank you so much. It brings so many memories :)

I like this genre of music

Very nice collection you have there. Love the Hitachi drives long startup

That Maxtor drive and the 2009ish 1 TB WD Green drive are both very nostalgic sounds for me. My first two computers that I ever did much with had those drives in them. :)

the satisfaction guarenteed on Maxtor hard drive is just like a guaranteed freshness label on a chips bag that has been packaged in a nuclear reactor

That's a very nice collection! Thank you!

That's a lot of hard drives not gonna lie.

The Sergate Baracuda 7200.9 have a epic startup Sound.

I just want you to know, the sounds of your hard drives are now immortalized in multiple films.... I shall not name which ones.

I love hard drives starting up... so calm sounding lol

interesting to hear the varied sounds.. even more interesting to see the careers and status of these drives.. trusty veterans

I remember the hard drive in my first laptop at school, it sounded so unique. So very loud, with a lovely grown as the heads moved. She took about 30 seconds to spin down again

beach house dabs!!!!

Playing the audio of this video over a muted CustomGrow420 video is one of the funniest things I have ever experienced

Finally a youtube video that worth watching

Man, i recently changed my hhd for a m.2 (it had the o.s. on it) and im gonna tell you, i already miss all the buzzing it made. It gave my pc a sense of "old school" or something like that, after all, all my old desktops had an hdd on them, so i got used to the noise, and the slowness. I still have a 1tb hdd tho, so i didnt lose everything.

5:23 I love the sound of maxtor out of nostalgia, it's the same as our PC in 2006

This is the asmr all pc builders love

Ahh, the good old Hitachi Deathstar.

5:34 the Maxtor 7L250S0 250gb I also got that drive in 2006 from a Sony Vaio Machine it's been an absolute trooper No bad sectors yet this drive has out lasted most of my other drives and I use the drive almost daily today

3:59 Preparing UFO for startup

I love the sound! You have too many hard drives man.

As an owner of many old WD and Segate drives that I bought along time ago, I could confirm 2 things. One they sound good and two that they were expensive because I got the higher capacity.

Wow, these are some great recordings! What mic did you use to pick up such soft sounds?

하드디스크 스핀업 동작음 제가 기대 했던 영상이 바로 여기 있네요! ㅎㅎ

HDD: Car with a combustion engine SSD: Tesla

Awesome Video! I was looking for the noise level of a WD hard drive because I wanted one. I got the WD Blue WD10EZEX and other than the airflow noise, I can’t even tell that it’s there!

I was worried that my hdd sounded like thay when y started my pc, but it sounds exactly like this!! great sound

Both of my first PCs had WDs, memories

5:23 I used to have one of these in an external enclosure, until my 10-year old brother kindly threw it down the stairs >:/

I felt it when it did the BRRRRRRRRRT.

Thank you for this

Looking at all these drives working perfectly makes me feel really well into investing into HDDs instead of going full SSD. I've got 10TB worth of drives in my personal rig and I'm planning on purchasing 80TB more over the next couple years.

2:27 I had a 750GB Barracuda with that same exact startup sound!!! I remember it like it was yesterday! It was an old drive, 3 platters at 250GB each, ran hot, and only SATA gen 2... or 3 gbps. I think the DoM was sometime back in 2007... I forget, drive has been scrapped for over 2 years by now. Wasn't a bad drive, but sadly I can confirm Seagate's reputation for faulty models. That Barracuda failed on me with a horrific head crash. Was using PC normally, wasn't even doing intensive work on the drive itself. I was playing a video game (installed on a separate SSD, btw). Next thing I know a HORRIFIC noise comes from the tower and computer freezes up from I/O errors. That's all I clearly remember from that day, unfortunately.

3:58 was the best!

FranzJ brought me here

I still have an HDD from 2006 from my old family PC and it sounds like a printer when reading/writing.

At 5:13, the reason why the drive starts up really fast is because the drive has only 1 platter.

These are all much newer than anything I have in my collection, but very cool nonetheless

2:27 = I still have mine in good conditions. Actually, I have two GNU/Linux partitions that I often use for avoid to pulls out life cycles instead of use my Windows partition.

Thank you for sharing this. I have a new computer which has an optical hard drive and wanted to make sure the start up sound was normal.

Its so satifying

6:11 I have that same drive in my old desktop and the startup sound is the same.

Hitachi Desktar sounds like a 52x CD Drive!

1000th like, awesome

I need more

Western Digital is perfect. Change my mind

had the exact same deskstar. careful with that one. the platters are stupid heavy compared to most drives and even the slighted twerk while on will cause issues.

5:12 sounds similar to the WD Blue WD10EZEX HDD

3:58 sounds just like a laptop CD/DVD drive

cyberpunk sounds :)

Do you still check the comments? If you do, could we get a video of the WD20EFRX in action?

Oh those caviar green 1tb are the most reliable drive I’ve seen so far. Bought them new 2010 been used in my main pc up until a few months ago. Both are still in perfect status

Miss the sound of stepper motors in hard disks.

i was hoping to hear a broken one when i read "Status"

I have same drive in 1:31 that starts exactly same like that

Electric car startup videos in the future.

Too bad you didn't include the legendary Quantum Bigfoot. Those things sound awesome!!

i have a st3500630as and its very loud while seeking

I use more HDD 5400 rpm because they do not heat up and it sounds quieter especially WD Purple

Its like im living on an aircraft carrier

can you do a sound of a WD Blue 500GB drive pls

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Can we get the startup sounds of a NVME next? ;-)

Can you do another video with all of your hard drives that you’ve collected?

5:48 Was My Fav Omg Soo Soothing 🤤

5:16 hey! You should be in my pc!

hdd spin ASMR

What is the sound at 1:43 to 1:45??

These recordings completely destroy my phone. I’ve also got that 1tb hitachi and your recording sounds light years better!

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4:44

I have literally an 8 year old Seagate as an external for my PS4 (PS5 External storage soon)

6:11 I have a Seagate 320GB HDD that sounds like that startup

franzj

HDD is just an old technology, that every HDD is very affordable.

0:43 and 3:59 sound like a jet engine starting up.

is there a way to prevent these sounds?

Was kinda scared of the noises it made when I first booted my pc but knowing it's normal took a weight off my shoulders

what is the sound at 0:09? and is that normal?

What about my Westren Digital Blue 1TB SSD(I think) that I use in my acer desktop. Sounds quiet with some little noises.

Who is watching this in 2022?

3:58 HDD in my pc Compaq Presario

I haven't heard a hdd start up in a long time, I have all SSD storage rn. Waiting for the SMR scandal to blow off before I buy a HDD.

3:58 до каких оборотов разгоняется?

Porque hacia tanto quilombo el hitachi jjajjajaj 40000rpm (?

I hate that humm bassy sound... UGH