My Vintage Hard Drive Collection - The Sounds of 50+ Hard Drives in 20 Minutes

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My Vintage Hard Drive Collection - The Sounds of 50+ Hard Drives in 20 Minutes

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Smart Bonnie

Күн бұрын

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@SmartBonnieYT Жыл бұрын

CORRECTION: The Maxtor Atlas 10K IV is 36GB, not 32.

@MrZorbatron 3 ай бұрын

Always thought that drive had a really strange calibration sound. Your example is perfectly healthy. The best sounding Atlas drive is the Quantum Atlas 10K II. It has an unusually low note for a 10,000 RPM drive, almost a resonance to it, but is very, very smooth, no buzz at all to it. I have a machine with 16 of them, 25 years old now.

@thegeforce6625 2 ай бұрын

@@MrZorbatron16?! Wtf is it? A old rack mount server or disk shelf?

@piotrbbbb1264 8 ай бұрын

Finally, a collector who has an IBM 171MB disk, which I had with an Amiga 500 computer (with an additional external HDD controller). It was a really loud disk, with an additional sound effect - depending on which cylinders the heads were operating on, but perhaps the second problem with this additional noise is was the fault of a specific example. In any case, the drive performed well and was resold 3 years later. A year before the sale, it was replaced by WD Caviar 850MB, which I have kept to this day and is also featured in this film. As a former seller/servicer, I say that you should treat an HDD like an egg. How durable it will be depends on what micro-injuries and stronger impacts it will be exposed to before installation (on the way from the distributor to installation in the housing).

@Pulverrostmannen 11 ай бұрын

19:31 LOL The helicopter has taken off!!

@Nathan15038 6 ай бұрын

1:27 I love how this one literally sounds like it semi truck 😂

@adinnugroho6544 7 ай бұрын

2:43 : This HDD sound maybe can be used to test the Woofer driver 😅

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

You seriously have a lovely collection, so many interesting drives. Nicely varied too, huge kudos :) Definitely very hard to pick a favourite!

@CRR__ 9 ай бұрын

I love listening to these drives spin up and down. Thanks for uploading !

@ScottieNiven Жыл бұрын

Love it! If I tried to make a video of all my drives it would be 6+ hours long 🤣

@thegeforce6625 Жыл бұрын

I’d gladly watch all 6 hours of it lol

@XL-Tech 11 ай бұрын

I would still watch it. Hard drives are just that interesting.

@Struukbessen 3 ай бұрын

That's a nice collection of old drives! Thank you for mentioning me in the description.

@christopherbartleson8918 Жыл бұрын

I have to say, my favorite sounding one is the Quantum Bigfoot, I'm not even sure why.

@Pulverrostmannen 11 ай бұрын

Quantum bigfoot is actually one of my favorite drives of all times and I been using them since the 90:s and still today and they are big and awesome, have many left that still works, But I always liked Quantum Fireball too, very durable drives, it is however aging problems with pretty much all Pro Drive versions because of rubber rotting internally making the heads get stuck on them now sadly enough

@matthewsvideos8235 3 ай бұрын

Quite a few 1999 - 2001 drives produced late for their size when drives twice or more of their capacity were common.

@neorandy 10 ай бұрын

Flashbacks! I handled, installed, the vast majority of these.

@Avra_64 5 ай бұрын

Love those old Conners

@Lorondos Жыл бұрын

The Toshiba MK4026GAX has an estimated release of 04 January 2006 🙂

@gg_beaa 6 ай бұрын

Cool collection! I really like the drives that sound a little hollow and airy like the Seagate ST351A/X at 7:45

@RedOnYT3950 3 ай бұрын

I kinda like how the older Seagate and Miniscribe HDDs make a loud harmony. I could recreate that harmony by just hearing the notes.

@codingbeast6927 Жыл бұрын

Good video, subbed!

@cdos9186 Жыл бұрын

Amazing job on the video! Although I will say, a few of the drives sound like they have issues initializing, for example the Quantum ProDrive 105S sounds like it has a sticking rubber bumper which is a known issue on those brick style one's as well. Also the Piranha 4200 sounds not normal since it just does two clicks, although those are so hard to come by it could be normal, I'm not sure! Also I absolutely LOVE those Seagate Medalist drives and the Medalist Pro you have! You have an incredible amount of great drives, thanks for sharing : ))

@MrZorbatron 3 ай бұрын

Drive at 2:40 is a tandon drive. WDC bought Tandon.

@douro20 7 ай бұрын

Wasn't the WD93044-A the first IDE hard disk? The 8245SA can't find track 0. It needs to be low-level formatted.

@mikixyz123 3 ай бұрын

That Conner Filepro Advantage (CFA170A) doesn't sound too healthy with that overspinning...

@razorkill8522 7 ай бұрын

I love hdd sounds

@Salatkopf-dschogy 4 ай бұрын

6:26 How are they constructed to sound like that? They turn on and off and then they turn on with a whining noise and then the "nitro" kicks in.

@user-ud1wx7ss2t 3 ай бұрын

Most likely, the disk is spinning up slowly to check that the disk is spinning normally, and then turn on the operating mode

@xmunki1389 8 ай бұрын

Nice video, this was really fun to watch. I'm wondering, do these drives actually work properly? Can you write to them and read from them without issues?

@adinnugroho6544 Жыл бұрын

Older, I mean Vintage HDD Sound, is almost like Engine 😅 I listen it with my earphone, though 😅

@precisionxt 7 ай бұрын

I have a pretty sizeable collection of older WD, Conner, Seagate and Quantum drives but never owned any new. Were they always noisy like this or is it compounded by age of the bearings and other internal parts? These sound amazing by the way.

@thegeforce6625 4 ай бұрын

They where a little noisy when new, but not as noisy compared to today after however many thousands of hours of runtime. (Especially counting the spindle motor bearings)

@matthewsvideos8235 3 ай бұрын

I have some of those 5.25 drives as of 2024 and they do grumble a bit taken out of storage for a bit then quiet down. Particularly the ST-412. Never heard a Bigfoot with a loud bearing and I have a few of them.