Quantum Bigfoot CY 3240AT 3.2GB (1997)

Quantum Bigfoot CY 3240AT 3.2GB (1997) - Hard Drive Sounds

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2 жыл бұрын

This guy is one sick puppy: i.imgur.com/HBe6bq8.png
I picked this one up from a second hand store several months ago for about €3 (if I recall). It's not in phenomenal health and consistently gives the click of death if you try to access any bad sectors. I didn't format the drive in this video due to that, neither did I run anything too intensive. The benchmark was only a small 16mb sequential read/write test. I was afraid anything more intense would push this over the edge to a painful death...
It's more of a collection piece at this point, since due to its poor health I have no real use for it in any vintage machine. The ol' Bigfoot. Truly an inspiring piece of hard drive art.
Thanks for checking out the video.
Recorded with a Shure SM58. Gain is +20dB, 5cm recording distance.

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@maxtornogood 2 жыл бұрын

It has a phaser-like sound at startup just like the Western Digital Caviar series!

@bigbluebananabread 2 жыл бұрын

It sounds real cool I agree! Thanks a ton for watching! :)

@alexanderwhite8320 Жыл бұрын

I love these anti-sealing stickers! Warranty void if seal broken.

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Really cool vibe on these, Quantum really nailed the look :)

@marcse7en 10 ай бұрын

I've been into computers since 1996. My first PC was an Olivetti Envision, with an 850 MB Hard Disk. I remember some of my drives were really whiney sounding! Fast forward to 2023, and I have my first 5TB 2.5" USB powered HDD. Today's HDDs are almost silent. I also have a 2TB USB SSD, which allows me to carry around ALL the data I've ever created in 27 years, plus the Betamax Home Movies I made almost 40 years ago! ... What a time to be alive?

@crocoland6330 Ай бұрын

One of the most goofy ahh drives made by quantum!

@DrFreeeman Жыл бұрын

I have a 4GB version. When I got it it had probably been sitting for a good 15 years or so. During the initial wipe it had some weak sectors which caused the voice coil to emit a very loud buzzing noise. Once I confirmed that nothing was mechanically failing I simply let it "battle it out" with the weak sectors. It took a few hours but there were no bad sectors afterwards and I zero filled it a few more times to make sure. That was a couple of years ago and the drive is still fine and writes to those sectors no problem. I power it twice a year or so and just fill the drive several times and read back.

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

Super glad to hear yours is still doing good! I wish this one could recover so cleanly, but I'm afraid the more I use it, the more it cooks itself. Oh well. Very much amazing drives to have though, the footprint of these is nuts, so I'm definitely quite jealous of the model you have that's still plodding along all these years later :)

@DrFreeeman Жыл бұрын

@@bigbluebananabread I happened to also get lucky with an 8 GB TS. It looks somewhat beat up on the outside but only has about 4.9k hours along with 5.2k starts/stops which is high for the hour count it has. Whoever used it was probably letting their machine sleep or hibernate way too often unfortunately. Luckily though it gave zero trouble since I got it. Takes over 20 seconds to spin down which is pretty neat too. I imagine the 3 platter variant probably takes a good 30.

@PROSTO4Tabal Ай бұрын

Gordon don't need to hear all of this. He is highly trained professional

@NelsonBigGunP200Fan Жыл бұрын

Made a short video of a Fireball Plus/AS 60gb out of a old gateway with a p4 and Rambus RAM. It spins and seeks and is recognized but has bad sectors and the PC it was in locks up alot. So I wasn't able to do much with it

@NelsonBigGunP200Fan 9 ай бұрын

One thing about quantums and samsungs drives that i thought was cool was the HDD activity light they had on the PCB that lit up during access. My ex girlfriends mom had a 433 mhz celeron HP with a 30GB LCT quantum inside. I always rememeber the spin up and the light blinking during loading of Win98SE. And the Klunk whirrrr when spinning down. I sort of miss quantum and maxtor. They were both bought out by seagate and maxtor.my favorite drives were the plus AS and the D740x

@Dan-TechAndMusic Жыл бұрын

I got the 4.3GB 4335AT model of the CY today, so far it got through a format and SMART only reports three reallocated sectors, hoping it stays that way. My 4.3GB 4320AT TX is still in perfect health, guess the thing about TXs being more solid than CYs rings true here, even if only by three sectors!

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

Amazing! I hope they both hold up well for you, sounds like they're both doing great all things considered. Very jealous of that TX! Awesome!

@OpenGL4.6 2 жыл бұрын

these ones are very interesting, too bad it has poor health.

@bigbluebananabread 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, they're very fun drives! Sadly, it seems to be all too common with the CY line. Thanks for stopping by!

@OpenGL4.6 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigbluebananabread you're welcome, i'm a hard drive collector too.

@bigbluebananabread 2 жыл бұрын

@@OpenGL4.6 Always a pleasure to meet another collector!

@scalamasterelectros3204 Жыл бұрын

Also a collector here i alredy have 4stucks off them

@NelsonBigGunP200Fan Жыл бұрын

I had a TX 4.0 gb bigfoot in my HP 233 mhz pavilion, but sadly it didnt last. died one day to the klunk of death. I also had a couple CY's back then as well.

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

Ah, that's quite a shame about the TX. I don't have much hands-on experience with these, but everyone I've heard has had a terrible time with the CY's at the very least. They seem to be pretty terrible compared to the other ones, at least with longevity. It's a shame, they're pretty fun.

@NelsonBigGunP200Fan Жыл бұрын

It's cool how they changed the seek test from the first Bigfoot which barely had a seek test to the TX which had the same seek test as say a LCT fireball. I might have had one of the early Bigfoot drives way back when and always wondered why they barely made any noise when seek testing. Then when I got my hp 233 mhz it had a 4gb TX, and the noise made from seeking or reading data was much different, more pronounced I should say. But it might have been due to the big HP full tower case that it was mounted in amplifying the seek noise.

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

@@NelsonBigGunP200Fan I must admit, I do quite like the LCT's, they're pretty good drives. The TX joins that of course, the sounds those make do seem quite interesting!

@pierrepaj2367 Жыл бұрын

Un bruit a l'air libre ,beaucoup moins en charge dans mon AMIGA monté en Tour . Récupéré le mien dans un PC Mini Tour équipé d'un processeur CYRIX a l'époque . Tourne toujours impeccablement malgré l'age . Combien de GO aujourd'hui sur une surface de disque de 5 pouces 1/4 ?

@douro20 16 күн бұрын

I don't think these drives were particularly unreliable, just slow. They made some 5400rpm models as well.

@titotech Жыл бұрын

Can you please do an full testing video like the others? Speedsys, hd motion

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

I'll look into if that's possible with this drive! Unfortunately, this one is in really bad health and will likely not be able to complete speedsys or hdmotion, but I'll give it a try. I have a feeling it might end up dying before those tests complete, but I'll edit this comment once I've been able to look into that! Thanks for the interest!

@thegeforce6625 Жыл бұрын

how many platters does it have?

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

This one has 2 platters and 3 heads, the density is around 2.2GB per platter, I believe.

@TheDragonFire123 Жыл бұрын

@@bigbluebananabread Quite amazing when you think we can go way beyond this in mere 3.5" today,

@jjohnson71958 Жыл бұрын

love these 5.25 quantium bigfoot hdd's mines just under 4gb in size

@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын

Ah that's awesome! These are really fun drives, I totally agree. This is the only one I have and it's in pretty bad shape, but they're really cool anyway. Thanks a bunch for checking out the vid!