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"the smell, very very special". I love the smell of old electronics. Excellent new intro. :)

The sound of that drive starting up brought back so many memories.

This brings back memories, for sure. I bought my first hard drive (a Seagate ST-138R) in 1988. I purchased it from Hard Drives International, from an ad in Computer Shopper. Just about all of the companies advertising in that magazine -- and there were hundreds -- are as dead as the dodo now.

Love that sound! So many memories. Debug g=C800:5....getting the right interleave to get that extra few KB per second. Aaahhh...those were the days!

I also had a luggable with a ST225 drive, which had no need to park, as the drive controller was written so that every time the heads were moved to a track, and after a half second of inactivity, the drive would automatically park them again. Did mean that it spent a lot of the time waiting for the head stack to get to a track and then do the sector work, probably a 50% speed penalty on the drive access, especially with lots of small file work, as the 80186 processor it used was less than speedy, though it did come with the whole 640k of memory soldered to the main board. Got it very cheap, as it was extremely obsolete, and finally the screen finished off dying, as the EL backlight faded away. But was able to run it a long time, and even upgraded it to MSDOS 5.0 as well, though there were not many things around that would run fast on it.

Ahh ST225 - My first hard drive... 😊 I still remember ordering mine by phone from a Computer Shopper magazine. Those Seagate's sure were a special combination of expensive and unreliable. Some things never change.

Thanks for putting the microphone by the drive, the sounds brought back floods of nostalgia! My first IBM compatible was a 286 machine with an EGA display, 640kb of RAM and a 30MB Seagate RLL drive installed with Achter DOS, it looked a lot like this ST225 so I imagine it was essentially the same mechanism. The sound of it starting up is very distinctive! A couple of years later I upgraded the motherboard to a 386 one and in the process I somehow damaged the drive or the RLL controller and it never worked again... Fortunately I had everything of importance backed up to floppy disks but I could only afford to buy a 20Mb "hard card" to replace the drive at the time! About a year later I upgraded that to a new-fangled 3.5" Western Digital (caviar?) IDE drive with an size of 170Mb which at the time seemed impossibly huge! The hard card remained installed as a backup device, a job it served at for many years until I bought a CD writer.

I used with my 286 years ago MFM version of that harddrive, I still remember sound of that hdd.

Boy, this video brought back some memories! old stepper actuated MFM drives...dot matrix "tractor feed" paper... having to run a program to change data in the BIOS info... having to MANUALLY enter the head/cyl/sector info...parking drives before you shutdown. man, those were the days. Thanks for this video!

The original software which was in the original partition you can download in the description 😉

11 years old me getting the very first hard disk, super expensive birthday gift at the time. That brings memories. And now I'm typing this message on the phone with 256Gb of internal storage and 1Tb microSD that costs a lot less than 40Mb HDD back then.

I've always enjoyed the sound of the st-255. Easy sound effect that has been used in many movies.

The first hard drive I ever owned was 11MB, in my good old 286. This 20MB drive was huge back in the days 🙃

That sound brings back so many good memories of my childhood playing Port of Calls, Civilization 1, railroad Tycoon etc on my 12,5 MHz 80286 4MB ram, 42MB hard drive, 256 color VGA graphics and Sound Blaster Pro equipped Sanyo. Don’t dare to even imagine what my parents paid for it.

I like smell of the new/old electronics at the morning. xD

Damn park.exe this give me memories.

02:20 - you should have saved that air coming out of the bag, it would have been very clean air from back in the 1980's!

I installed so many of those, back when I worked at a computer store in the mid 1980s. Good times.

Your voice lowers my blood pressure and pulse rate by 10%. Take it as a compliment, please.

Great review! I liked very much when you said "Now the heads are getting crazy" when the test was running :))

I remember in 1991 seeing a friend's Commodore Amiga A600 with a 20MB hard drive attached, and thinking that was HUGE. At the time I was using floppies on other friends Atari ST and I still had an old Amstrad CPC464 with cassette!

I built my first PC in the late 1980s with a Seagate 20MB SCSI drive and I think it was this exact model. I also used the ST01 adapter then later moved up to an Adaptec controller. My motherboard had an AMI BIOS, actually the motherboard itself was made my AMI and I used a 20 MHz 386, snapping in the 64k cache RAM DIP chips and the 4 MB RAM was fun back then. Oddly the company we got this drive from, Treasure Chest Computers, also sent us a 60 MB drive we did not order. We asked from them to prepay the shipping back but they wouldn't do it so we just kept it. So this was my introduction to the "IBM compatible" scene and dealing with weird companies. I enjoyed the video!

My first HDD was a 52MB Seagate SCSI on an ST01 controller. Nice video, brings back memories!

I remember everyone pronounced SCSI as "skuzzie" back in the late '90s / early '00s.

Great video! I had no idea there was a SCSI version of the ST-225. The regular '225 is probably the worst hard drive I've ever encountered. If it didn't sieze up altogether due to "stiction", it would develop read errors when the alignment drifted. Back in the day, I used to do "data recovery" by holding it it one hand, whacking the side while turning on the power to get it spinning, and then twisting the frame in various ways to nudge the alignment until all the files could be copied. Yes, this is terrible, but I made a lot of people very happy this way.

I love your videos. Keep up your good work !

I love this channel. Brings back so many memories. Why are there not more subscribers. Great channel!

I always ran my MFM drives with RLL controllers to get the extra space.

Huffing SCSI is rare these days. Good work!

You bring back good memories, I think. Thanks for your hard work to bring these videos to us!

Thanks for the nostalgia throwback. 😉👍

WOW! Never seen an ST225N with a SCSI interface!

Thank you for a nice video review of this beautiful hard drive, it brings me a lot of memories

That gigantic 5-1/4" full-height drive having 20MB -- it's hard to believe that 5 years after that I had a PC with a 3-1/2" 245MB hard drive, and about 3 years after that I had a gigabyte.

Easily one of my favorite channels man!

Back to memory lane. Installed so many of them. With novel netware on them. Wow, so long ago already. Very nice. Thank you.

I love the intoxicating smell of fresh out of the pack electronics.

These things cost a fortune at the time! I never understand how new old stock even exists for such valuable items! Crazy!

Love your content. Would be interested in a video about the last series of Super Socket 7 CPUs and how AMD arguably kept the platform relevant beyond it's prime with dirt cheap, 550MHz K6-2s and 3s. For a student with no money, those things were a game changer back in the day.

My goodness, you have me reminiscing something wonderful.... as soon as I saw the drive in the packet I thought ST506/MFM and then my controller, to format # debug go c800...., such great times.... thanks, your a legend!

That sound is lovely

Love the sound of those old drives. I've just been testing MFM & RLL controllers and drives before selling them on eBay. One of your German compatriots bought 3 controllers off me, 2 MFM & an Adaptec RLL one. The testing took me right back to my 1st days working with PC's, using sstor etc to low level format the drives and mark defects.

Awesome find!

Awesome... Simply awesome!!! Your videos are so cool...

I love the sound the heads make.

Amazing what we used to accomplish using such meagre resources... Recently a 20-something colleague of mine received a freebie USB thumb drive and tossed it aside in disgust because it was "only 1GB" and therefore "useless".

I bought that exact drive in early 90's from a local paper advert. It was out of a company server or something. Got it up and running on my amiga - after making a 25 to 50 pin cable.

Amazing !!!! Please continue with this channel , Pure vintage electronic porn!!!

that was very cool. thank you

Beautiful memories! :)

I remember how excited I was to find an MFM Type 1 drive from a DEC Rainbow machine. 10 megabytes! Double the height as yours but half the capacity! It was made a year before I was born, and ended up in a 286 from 1986 and sold on eBay, not before making a bunch of videos :D

Excellent video

I never had Much scsi but I do Remember 20 and 40 MB harddrives

Thanks for this video 👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻

This brings back memories of my first computer, an Atari PC3, which had a similar drive. I still remember the startup and shutdown sound. Also the seek sound from these stepper motor drives is much better than modern HDDs. I was 5 years old when my dad gave it to me to learn writing on a computer. (It was very old already then, this was most likely 2004 or 2005). The first words I could write were "C:\word\word" and "park C" for opening word and for parking the disk drive before powering down the machine. One day it did not boot anymore, just showing a flashing cursor. I bet the HDD was defective, it had bad sectors before already. But I did what all children would do: I took it apart to look what was inside. Of course, after that it never worked again. Too sad, today I could probably reinstall or restore it in a matter of hours. the only thing I kept for another few years was the amazing buckling spring keyboard from it. Eventually even that wore out and developed non-functioning keys.

God, I was 13 when this thing came out. I feel old now.

Woah. I had one of these in my first PC. A huge 286 with an Intel Above Board absolutely stacked with 2MB of RAM.

Very cool, never saw a SCSI version of that drive.

That head sound is just lovely.

Good old souvenirs. My second computer did have one of these ST225, the MFM version. I remember it did need violence to make bad sectors vanish. (When you have a bad sector on one of these, you know by the sound)

Oh my god! I dropped my 170MB IDE drive and had no money to replace. A friend offered a pair of the MFM version with with the MFM interface card. All he wated in return was one of the one blank faceplate that came out of my case. (The 2nd went in place of a 5 1/4" floppy) That, after running my 386 off floppy disks for months was one of the biggest upgrades of my life! :D

sehr-sehr gut, wie immer

I have install Windows 3.0 in Seagate 80 Megabytes in 1998, and it was amazing experience using Windows 3.0 that time. And installing Wibdows95 in new PC with fast HDD 600 MB Quantum Mavericks was a new experience that time.

I was about the age of 7 when my parents upgraded our dual floppy drive Amstrad to a 20mb hard drive, cost for them was around $700 AUD in around 1989. At that stage I don't think any of us had any idea you could fill a hard drive, I think we still just run most of our games and programs off the floppy disks.

Ahhhhh I found a seagate ST225 disk 2 months ago but with an MFM interface with its respective WD brand controller! It was very exciting to turn it on and start like the first day!

Wonderful!

Jebus. I don't know what I'm more shocked about. That Seagate has been around for that long, or that there was once a hard drive with only 20MB on it. I saw a 72MB over on EEVBlog's channel from the mid/late 70s and that thing was huge, both in storage but also physical dimensions and it required gas cooling which the drive had special ports on it. Crazy. The smallest hard drive I ever had was a 320MB drive for my Compaq 486 laptop. And to think, that SCSI drive works as new. Retro tech just lasted, unlike today's tech where the threat of a fart within 10 feet of it could break them.

love the sound of that drive never can bring myself to use cf adapter in retro builds, also remember scrapping a 225n many years ago the frame was turning to dust from oxidation but i kept the platters as trophy lol

My first HDD has 40MB (3/1.5in) but it was on "standard" IDE interface. Sound of spin that "old" hdd is amazing like starting jetplane.

I know that drive, it was the first drive I ever owned but it was an ST506 Drive which was in a custom box that looked like an IBM PC case custom modified with a Commodore 1571 to control the drive to make it usable with a Commodore 60 or 128. The unit was called a DATA Chief and it worked in an odd way by creating a bunch of partitions to emulate either 1541 or 1571 Disks but natively it would combine all those disks to appear as one big 20MB Partition but you could still access each partition to make it appear as a single disk or just use it as one big drive the thing did not care how you utilize it because it had both a bunch of directories or one large directory all at the same time. Yea weirdware but at the time very impressive.

I love that new hard drive smell. Thankfully it didn't change over the decades. :)

Apr 1989, I still remember those days as yesterday.

The sound of the hard drive reminds me to my 30MB Atari Megafile 30 (this was a RLL Drive - Seagate ST238R) - witch I bought in 1990 for 999.- DM (~ 7030 öS or 511 EUR)

Nice video, I have Seagate ST-4096 that works correctly only if it is mounted upside down 😀

Omg i remember using park before shutting down the computer... now it makes sense what it does

Awesome video and drive. In the states we call the interface "scuzzy".

Also Park.exe brings back memories of using an Amstrad PC1640

Drinking game : Drink a shot for every "very nice". :D

The spin up and head noise .... classic Seagate.

When that drive was new back in 1989 it had a price tag of 329USD. Imagine how much storage you can get today for that money :D

I'm really curious how a drive sits for over 30 years without even being opened, let alone used. Maybe the original owner bought it as a spare in case their first one broke? Although it would've been a very expensive drive back in the day, so it must have been a business if that were the case. Anyway, very cool to see it finally getting put to use!

The ASMR is strong here.

It was a jet among disks. Who remember 5,25" double bay MFM 5MB disks? When this baby starting all lights in room suddenly dims. And powerful PC with impossible 4,77MHz CPU clock. Good old times.

I still laugh when I think back to when I got one of those 10 Meg double bay monstrosities for my XT. 10 Meg! I remember thinking at the time that I couldn't possibly use all that storage, but it was awesome to have it. Lol, good times... As for the ST225, I think the one I had is still sitting in box somewhere at my parent's house, along with a few other bits and bobs from the old days. I remember coming across it a few years ago while moving some stuff around for my mom. Should go digging one day, see what all is still left.

ST-225 was my first HDD !!!

nice, my first hard drive was an IBM 10m full height full depth monster, but my second computer had the ST238R for a small but huge improvement.

You had me watching at the mention of ST225. It is a real shame that all the new helium filled spinning rust drives will instantly fail once enough helium leaks out (shortly after their 5 year warranty).

Oh, nice intro, it's better than the old

My A590 had that drive mounted inside! Cheers, M

Man the memories. I had a few regular ST225s, yes a few, I got them late for next to nothing when everybody already had hdds with hundreds of MBs. I was opening the computer case and switching them as if they were big floppy disks. I have an anecdote about the first ST225 I received, the guy who was selling it didn't bring a controller card, since one of the connector looked like a floppy one, we did what seemed obvious, connected the hard drive to the floppy controller. We even managed to low level format it as a 720k "floppy", don't ask how, I had no idea what I was doing, ran some commands I found in my dos manual to invoke low level formatting routines from the bios. It behaved like a very fast floppy and could boot msdos. In the end I got a controller and reformatted it to its proper capacity.

I remember seeing the prices of these in magazines back then, wow! They rose exponentially from lowest storage to highest - often the top few would have "TBA" as the prices were so volatile, probably to get customer's to phone up. Look at mechanical HDDs now, anything under a few TBs - practically junk!

I used to collect those Seagate 20M drives... but I never had a SCSI one.... they are so reliable... you could use them as a football and they'd still spin up.

I remember those drive sounds from the 65MB ST-277N drive on my Amiga 2000

ST-225 sounds. Its like auditory porn for nerds! Love it! I never knew Seagate made the ST-225 in SCSI. This is just freaking cool!

Good old memories. I had the ST225 MFM and remember that almost 150K/sec transfer rate.

I was given a brand new unused Seagate ST225 (MFM) about 15 years ago. Unfortunately, some dope in 1988 decided to unpack it, spin it up and then put it back in its case without parking the heads. The first 3 megabytes have tons of bad sectors and I got lucky it even formatted.

I’m sure @Seagate would get a kick out of this!

My first drives were ST-241, with the stiction problem. The interface on the ST-225 is ST-506 Interface. MFM is the encoding method on the media. RLL is an extension to MFM that gets you to 1.5x the space. N stands for Narrow (8 bit) SCSI.

This brings back the nightmares I had when I got my first computer. Del *.*. Are you sure?