I may not be in the era of hard drives and their noisy ancestor the modem, but I love the odd sounds of computing. The whirrs, the grinding static, the beep boops; melodies to my auditory sensors.
Exactly. I understand SCSI2SD, or CF to IDE adapters, etc are really important, but it isn't the same without the loud bangs of the HDDs. Another reason I don't like modern hard drives, and prefer SSDs. If it doesnt make a goofy sound like a hamster trying his best to power a PC, then I'd rather take the speed.
Ahhh yes the classic school/library computer lab loud boot up noise with that spinning and crackling that would sometimes maybe even send shock down your spine. Not gonna lie. I kind of miss old, loud hard drive you could definitely tell they’re turning on. They always sound like they’re broken, but they’re not 😂
things in my life have been pretty rough as of late, but these videos calm me down for some reason thank you Arnold for posting videos of these awesome drives!
When I started growing the collection in 2021 it was after seeing GeeniDee's early seagate and WD video. Because of the opened ST3491A I was already fond of the seagates with that design and decided I would try to get as many different models of the "boat shape" seagates as I could. The ones I don’t have yet are the ST1057A, ST3057A, ST3123A and ST3291A, but I will probably never get them, they seem to be unobtainium, some of these don’t even have a single picture of them on google. As for the other seagates, some were cheap and others were in the lots I got. Seems like they were fairly common
Yep, anyone who used computers in the 80s/90s will remember the sounds of hard drives. It is part of the reason why I don't really get people that are putting solid state storage in their retro machines when the sound of the hard drive is part of the experience in my opinon.
@@woaln5213 I doubt there would be enough demand for someone to actually do something like this, I assume it wouldn't be easy to make, but yeah it would be nice for those who doesn't want to use actual drives over reliability concerns but are liking the sounds
6:56 The MiniScribe 3000 series! 5.25” half-height, VCM actuators, all quality-look at that top casting-nice to see… Hope you may have a 3053 and another MiniScribe favourite-the unusual patented moving magnet 8051A further along in the video :-)
I will consider it, but I need to finish the ones from the last "lot" video I made in which I said I would make videos of them, they already got delayed quite a bit by this collection video taking a lot of time to make
Well I have been into hard drive sounds since so long, but I just was listening to them on youtube until I decided to grow the collection in 2021. No regrets! I wish I had better luck though, drives with bad sectors or that arrive dead and sellers shipping with no protection is common sadly.
@@arnlol That's why I rarely buy drives nowadays.Too expensive and too faulty. I think for now my collection is finished. Not that I have all models I wanted ...
@@gennidee Yeah that's certainly a gamble that you have to take and finding good deals can be complicated, also the lower priced lots often end up poorly packaged as well. That's a hobby where you have to accept you'll have some loss when you get into it, and it's only going to get worse as time goes by. Bummer that you couldn't get all the models you wanted, but really not too surprizing at this point
Nice, this was a joy to watch. I got a question. For how long were these drives unpowered before you got them running for this video? I know I have a drive somewhere in my house (with quite important data) that I haven't powered on for around 7-8 years, and I'm utterly paranoid that it won't work when I finally find it and try to use it. Should I be worried about this?
Do you really think so? After all, there can only be so many people interested by the very niche thing that is old hard drive sounds. I feel like getting a few hundred, or even a few thousands views sometimes isn’t that bad considering the subject :)
I salvaged one seagate 1 TB SATA hdd from a retired office PC, they restored it using the built in recovery partition and gave it to me, in Hard Disk Sentinel shows as bad, 76 reallocated sectors and 30 days estimated lifetime remaining. Having a modern PC I set the UEFI to BIOS and my controllers to IDE mode so I can use MHDDl, in the first run it showed a >500ms block and a second run nothing abnormal, but I bumped the Caps Lock key and i discovered that toggling it it will cause a delay marking whatever sector it is reading as red l, so I guess hardware interrupts interfere with the scan, HDsentinel ran read/writes tests without any new reallocation or significant delay but is SMART which is concerning me, I didnt save any important data to it, but is running fine, it has a power on time of 1034 days, no unusual noises or any concerning issues. i boot from an SSD so said drive spends most of the time spun down when im not using my virtual machines
What is a dream, having a big collection of hard drives like this? If you want, you can still make it not a dream, it'll take some time and money but it's possible. In early 2021 when I really started I only had a few drives, and now I'm slowly but surely getting close to 300 drives...
Hard to believe that some old drives from around 25-30+ years ago still work today (maybe even more so at the time of upload if you're reading this months, if not years from then). We sure have come a long way in terms of data storage room.
This is all the drives I currently have, so if there was drives in the video from two years ago that are not in this one, then yes it means that they have died.
It's really hard to chose tbh, there's a lot of drives that I like. I would say the Kalok KL-3100 because I like that high pitched stepper sound but I might be a bit biased because that drive was from a small manufacturer and unreliable, thus happens to be quite rare... The Daeyoung DX-3120 probably would've been a good contender if only its PCB didn't die...
Remember the Quantum LCT drives with the Lucent motor controller chip which would burn out.... and of course the Fujitsu MPG series with the defective Cirrus chip which caused failure en mass
On Wikipedia it is said that it is the LCT 10 that has a chip that could burn out on the PCB, the one I have seems to be working perfectly and I hope it will stay this way. Didn't know that Fujitsu had that kind of reliability issues though
I don’t have as many hdds to my collection but still I’d need a shelf to put them on 😂 Ps: I have this model 17:55 on my very old Compaq all in one desktop pc with Windows 95, still working fine, only some bad sectors, good times, the sound of my childhood and first ever pc experience
My mom got me that shelf for my 30th birthday with the sole purpose of putting my drives in there. My collection is more than twice the size now and that shelf is getting really full. I enjoy having my drives on display like this, with easy access to whichever one I want to use or record for the videos.
I have a "sleeper build" with my coolermaster wavemaster case. I still have the original fans in it making a whole lotta noise. Thanks to your amazing nostalgic video I'm going to put a hard drive in it now😂
There's some tape there, it is clear tape, you can see the light reflecting on it. With nothing it certainly wouldn't last very long at all that's for sure (you would hear a really loud air noise as well). It's kind of a miracle that this drive even works at all
Yeah hard drives, old or new, with little or a lot of usage can fail. that's why you should have a copy of your data on multiple devices to reduce the risk of loosing things. SSDs can also fail, and it sometimes really isn't predictable
I mean, let’s be honest here no one really expects a like 40-year-old drive to be still running and healthy and not fail from the internal already a.k.a. the first drive you showed us
I did try to write over them but it did not work, they would go away then any try to read made them come back. Since that video the drive got way worse, with many many bad sectors, so I removed it from service.
Yep, and largest capacity drive that Maxtor ever made before being taken over by Seagate. It is not the largest IDE drive though, as Seagate actually made 750GB models but they seem to be quite rare. VWestlife made a video 7 years ago talking about said 750GB IDE Seagate
@@arnloli stumbled across a 750gb seagate IDE drive a few years ago and never bothered to check it out yet. I guess i can dig it out sometime and do a spinup/spindown or mini review of it.
Hard Drive ASMR is my new favourite genre
Who doesn't love the sound of a good drive
🤓 👍🏻
Timestamps:
0:05 Seagate ST-212 (10 MB, 1985)
0:29 Miniscribe 3425 (20 MB, 1987)
0:54 Seagate ST-125N MLC0 (20 MB, 1988)
1:16 Western Digital WD-384R (40 MB, 1988)
1:28 Kalok KL 343 (40 MB, 1991)
1:42 Seagate ST351A/X (40 MB, 1992)
1:54 Western Digital WD93044A (41 MB, 1990)
2:24 Seagate ST-157A-1 (42 MB, 1990)
2:45 Seagate ST-157A-1 (42 MB, 1990)
3:07 Quantum ProDrive LPS 42S (42 MB, 1991)
3:24 Western Digital Caviar 280 (81 MB, 1992)
3:36 Seagate ST-1102A (85 MB, 1991)
3:51 Seagate ST3096A (85 MB, 1993)
4:04 Seagate ST2106E (90 MB, 1991)
4:35 Kalok KL3100 (100 MB, 1992)
4:59 Seagate ST3120A (102 MB, 1992)
5:12 Quantum ProDrive LPS 105S (105 MB, 1992)
5:30 Samsung SHD-3062S (115 MB, 1993)
5:44 Western Digital Caviar 2120 (119 MB, 1991)
5:56 Seagate ST-1144A (124 MB, 1991)
6:13 Seagate ST3144A (124 MB, 1993)
6:28 Seagate ST3145A (124 MB, 1994)
6:39 Maxtor 7131AT (125 MB, 1993)
6:47 Miniscribe 3180S (153 MB, 1989)
7:17 Quantum ProDrive 210S (162 MB, 1993)
7:33 Seagate ST3195A (162 MB, 1994)
7:46 Quantum ProDrive 210S (196 MB, 1991)
8:17 Maxtor 7213AT (202 MB, 1993)
8:29 Western Digital Caviar 2200 (202 MB, 1993)
8:40 Conner CFS210A (203 MB, 1994)
8:49 Seagate ST3243A (204 MB, 1994)
9:04 Seagate ST3250A (204 MB, 1994)
9:12 Conner CP30254 (240 MB, 1993)
9:29 Western Digital Caviar 2250 (244 MB, 1994)
9:40 Seagate ST3290A (249 MB, 1994)
9:56 Seagate ST3290A (249 MB, 1994)
10:11 Seagate ST3290A (249 MB, 1995)
10:27 Seagate Medalist ST3295A (260 MB, 1995)
10:34 Western Digital Caviar 2340 (325 MB, 1993)
10:47 Western Digital Caviar 2340 (325 MB, 1994)
11:03 Western Digital Caviar 2340 (325 MB, 1994)
11:19 Western Digital Caviar 2340 (325 MB, 1994)
11:35 Western Digital Caviar 2340 (325 MB, 1994)
11:51 Western Digital Caviar 2340 (325 MB, 1994)
12:06 Seagate ST3391A (325 MB, 1994)
12:18 Seagate ST3391A (325 MB, 1995)
12:28 IBM DSAS-3360 (365 MB, 1994)
12:38 IBM Type 0661 467 (376 MB, 1991)
13:04 Quantum ProDrive LPS 420AT (402 MB, 1994)
13:19 Western Digital Caviar 2420 (405 MB, 1993)
13:33 Western Digital Caviar 2420 (405 MB, 1994)
13:46 Conner CFS425A (406 MB, 1995)
13:56 Seagate Medalist ST3491A (408 MB, 1995)
14:07 Seagate Medalist ST3491A (408 MB, 1995)
14:18 Seagate Medalist ST3491A (408 MB, 1995)
14:28 Maxtor 7540AV (514 MB, 1995)
14:42 Western Digital Caviar 2540 (515 MB, 1994)
14:56 Conner CFS541A (515 MB, 1995)
15:07 Conner CFS541A (515 MB, 1995)
15:16 Seagate Medalist ST3660A (520 MB, 1995)
15:27 Seagate Medalist ST3630A (602 MB, 1996)
15:38 Western Digital Caviar 2635 (610 MB, 1995)
15:49 Quantum Fireball 640AT (612 MB, 1996)
16:03 Western Digital Caviar 2700 (696 MB, 1994)
16:15 Seagate Medalist ST3850A (811 MB, 1996)
16:27 Maxtor 7850AV (814 MB, 1995)
16:40 Western Digital Caviar 2850 (814 MB, 1996)
16:53 IBM Type 0663 12H (956 MB, 1992)
17:21 Fujitsu M2694ESA (1 GB, 1993)
17:56 Quantum Fireball 1080AT (1.01 GB, 1996)
18:14 Seagate Medalist ST31270A (1.19 GB, 1996)
18:32 Western Digital Caviar 21200 (1.19 GB, 1996)
18:46 Western Digital Caviar 21200 (1.19 GB, 1997)
18:58 Seagate Medalist ST31276A (1.19 GB, 1997)
19:11 JTS Champ C1300-2AF (1.21 GB, 1997)
19:24 Western Digital Caviar 21600 (1.51 GB, 1996)
19:38 JTS Nordic N1620-3AR (1.51 GB, 1997)
19:55 Quantum Bigfoot 2110AT (1.97 GB, 1996)
20:35 Seagate Medalist ST32132A (1.97 GB, 1997)
20:47 Seagate Barracuda ST32550W (1.95 GB, 1997)
21:16 Western Digital Caviar 22100 (1.97 GB, 1997)
21:29 Seagate Medalist ST32120A (1.97 GB, 1997)
21:46 Seagate Medalist ST32122A (1.97 GB, 1998)
21:59 Maxtor 82160D2 (2.01 GB, 1998)
22:06 IBM DFHS S2W (2.10 GB, 1997)
22:25 Western Digital Caviar 22500 (2.38 GB, 1997)
22:37 Western Digital Caviar 22500 (2.38 GB, 1998)
22:47 Samsung SV0322A (2.98 GB, 1998)
22:57 Seagate Medalist ST33232A (3 GB, 1998)
23:08 Quantum Fireball ST 3240AT (3.01 GB, 1997)
23:27 Maxtor 90320D2 (3.03 GB, 1998)
23:34 Seagate Medalist ST33210A (3.03 GB, 1999)
23:42 Seagate Medalist ST33210A (3.03 GB, 1999)
23:52 Maxtor 90340D2 (3.17 GB, 1998)
24:00 Quantum Fireball EX4.2A (3.93 GB, 1998)
24:13 IBM DDRS-34560 (3.99 GB, 1998)
24:32 Seagate Barracuda ST15150N (4 GB, 1997)
25:07 Seagate Medalist ST34321A (4.01 GB, 1999)
25:17 Seagate Medalist ST34312A (4.01 GB, 1999)
25:24 Quantum Fireball lct08 04 (4.02 GB, 1999)
25:35 Fujitsu MPD3043AT (4.03 GB, 1999)
25:41 Seagate U4 ST34311A (4.03 GB, 2000)
25:48 Seagate U4 ST34311A (4.03 GB, 2000)
25:56 Seagate U4 ST34311A (4.03 GB, 2000)
26:04 Seagate U4 ST34311A (4.03 GB, 2000)
26:11 Fujitsu MPE3043AE (4.04 GB, 2000)
26:17 Quantum ATLAS II 4550J (4.24 GB, 1997)
26:55 Seagate Medalist ST34520W (4.24 GB, 1999)
27:07 Samsung VG34323A (4.32 GB, 1998)
27:19 Quantum Fireball lct15 05 (4.77 GB, 2000)
27:31 Hitachi DK2344-60 (5.58 GB, 1999)
27:40 Maxtor 90651U2 (6 GB, 2000)
27:48 Quantum Fireball EX6.4A (6 GB, 1998)
28:03 Quantum Fireball EX6.4AT (6 GB, 1999)
28:19 Western Digital Caviar 64AA (6 GB, 1999)
28:25 Seagate U4 ST36421A (6.01 GB, 1999)
28:36 Fujitsu MPD3064AT (6.04 GB, 1999)
28:46 Fujitsu MPD3064AT (6.04 GB, 1999)
28:56 Fujitsu MHH2064AT (6.04 GB, 1999)
29:04 Maxtor 87000D8 (6.52 GB, 1998)
29:18 Western Digital Caviar 84AA (7.87 GB, 1999)
29:24 Seagate Medalist ST38641A (8.01 GB, 1999)
29:38 Seagate U8 ST38410A (8.03 GB, 2000)
29:47 Western Digital Enterprise WDE9180-6029AB (8.47 GB, 1999)
30:04 IBM DPSS-309170 (8.47 GB, 2000)
30:26 Quantum Viking II 9.1L (8.50 GB, 1998)
30:58 IBM DNES-309170 (8.54 GB, 1999)
31:15 IBM DNES-309170 (8.54 GB, 1999)
31:33 Quantum Atlas V 9.1L (8.55 GB, 2000)
31:51 Western Digital Caviar 100BA (9.32 GB, 2000)
31:59 Quantum Fireball lct10 10 (9.32 GB, 2000)
32:09 Seagate U5 ST310211A (9.32 GB, 2001)
32:18 IBM DTTA-371010 (9.42 GB, 1999)
32:48 Maxtor 91021U2 (9.54 GB, 2000)
32:53 Seagate U10 ST310212A (9.54 GB, 2000)
33:04 Seagate ST310014ACE (9.54 GB, 2002)
33:16 Seagate Barracuda ATA ST313620A (12.65 GB, 2000)
33:29 Western Digital Caviar 136AA (12.66 GB, 2000)
33:37 Quantum Fireball lct15 15 (13.99 GB, 2000)
33:48 Seagate Barracuda ATA III ST315310A (13.99 GB, 2001)
33:59 IBM DGHS 18Y (16.95 GB, 1999)
34:29 Western Digital Caviar WD200BB (18.64 GB, 2001)
34:37 Seagate Barracuda ATA III ST320417A (18.64 GB, 2002)
34:48 Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST320011A (18.64 GB, 2002)
35:00 Samsung SV2011H (18.68 GB, 2002)
35:08 Quantum Fireball lct20 20 (19.01 GB, 2000)
35:21 Quantum Fireball lct20 20 (19.01 GB, 2000)
35:35 Maxtor 92049U3 (19.08 GB, 2000)
35:44 Fujitsu MPG3204AT (19.09 GB, 2001)
35:51 Fujitsu MAS3367NP (33.91 GB, 2004)
36:10 Maxtor ATLAS 10K IV 36WLS (34.25 GB, 2003)
36:29 Maxtor ATLAS 10K IV 36WLS (34.25 GB, 2003)
36:48 Western Digital Caviar WD400BB (40 GB, 2000)
37:01 Seagate Barracuda ATA III ST340824A (40 GB, 2001)
37:17 Seagate Barracuda ATA IV ST340016A (40 GB, 2001)
37:29 Seagate U6 ST340810A (40 GB, 2002)
37:38 Western Digital Protege WD400EB (40 GB, 2002)
37:46 Western Digital Protege WD400EB (40 GB, 2003)
37:57 Maxtor Fireball 3 2F040L0 (40 GB, 2003)
38:05 Maxtor Fireball 3 2F040L0 (40 GB, 2004)
38:13 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 6E040L0 (40 GB, 2004)
38:24 Seagate U7 ST360012A (60 GB, 2002)
38:36 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y060L0 (60 GB, 2003)
38:44 Western Digital Raptor WD740 (74.3 GB, 2005)
38:58 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y080L0 (80 GB, 2003)
39:12 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A (80 GB, 2003)
39:22 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A (80 GB, 2004)
39:32 Samsung SP0802N (80 GB, 2004)
39:41 Hitachi HDS7225080VLAT20 (80 GB, 2004)
39:50 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L080M0 (80 GB, 2005)
40:00 Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB (120 GB, 2002)
40:19 Western Digital Caviar WD1200BB (120 GB, 2004)
40:29 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST 3120022A (120 GB, 2004)
40:44 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160P0 (160 GB, 2004)
40:56 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 (160 GB, 2004)
41:09 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023AS (160 GB, 2004)
41:25 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 6G160P0 (160 GB, 2006)
41:44 Seagate DB35.2 ST3160212ACE (160 GB, 2007)
41:57 Seagate DB35.2 ST3160212ACE (160 GB, 2007)
42:09 Maxtor DiamondMax 21 (Seagate 7200.10) STM3160215AS (160 GB, 2007)
42:21 Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS (160 GB, 2007)
42:31 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (160 GB, 2008)
42:42 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B200P0 (200 GB, 2004)
42:56 Western Digital Caviar WD2000BB (200 GB, 2005)
43:15 Western Digital Caviar WD2500JB (250 GB, 2006)
43:32 Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT (320 GB, 2008 or 2009)
43:41 Maxtor DiamondMax 11 6H500R0 (500 GB, 2006)
44:02 Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ST9500325AS (500 GB, 2011)
44:09 Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX (500 GB, 2012)
44:21 Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS (1 TB, 2010)
44:46 HGST HDS724040ALE640 (4 TB, 2013)
45:20 HGST HDS724040ALE640 (4 TB, 2013)
45:53 HGST HDS724040ALE640 (4 TB, 2013)
46:22 Western Digital Red WD40EFRX (4 TB, 2015)
I love how you're making sure to let viewers know that you're parking the heads.
I may not be in the era of hard drives and their noisy ancestor the modem, but I love the odd sounds of computing. The whirrs, the grinding static, the beep boops; melodies to my auditory sensors.
Exactly. I understand SCSI2SD, or CF to IDE adapters, etc are really important, but it isn't the same without the loud bangs of the HDDs. Another reason I don't like modern hard drives, and prefer SSDs. If it doesnt make a goofy sound like a hamster trying his best to power a PC, then I'd rather take the speed.
It's interesting how on old drives that had really slow spinups you can hear the separate initial pulses to the coils.
The ultimate hard drive collection video on UA-cam. Love the collection!
Ahhh yes the classic school/library computer lab loud boot up noise with that spinning and crackling that would sometimes maybe even send shock down your spine. Not gonna lie. I kind of miss old, loud hard drive you could definitely tell they’re turning on. They always sound like they’re broken, but they’re not 😂
things in my life have been pretty rough as of late, but these videos calm me down for some reason
thank you Arnold for posting videos of these awesome drives!
Such an amazing collection! Your vast array of old Seagate's is seriously incredible.
I'll never buy Seagate again after they sold millions of their drives to the CCP.
@@keres993 good luck finding ANY company that hasn't sold drives to the CCP :)
When I started growing the collection in 2021 it was after seeing GeeniDee's early seagate and WD video.
Because of the opened ST3491A I was already fond of the seagates with that design and decided I would try to get as many different models of the "boat shape" seagates as I could. The ones I don’t have yet are the ST1057A, ST3057A, ST3123A and ST3291A, but I will probably never get them, they seem to be unobtainium, some of these don’t even have a single picture of them on google.
As for the other seagates, some were cheap and others were in the lots I got. Seems like they were fairly common
@@keres993 When was that?!
@@Kali_Krause They sold hard drives to Huawei between 2020 and 2021 despite the US sanctions.
16:04 - We had that drive on our Gateway 2000 PC. Good memories
I remember so many of these beauties! I could always tell what drive a PC had by the sound. Those were the days!
Strange feeling hearing some of them again. Sounds so often heard, etched in my memory
Yep, anyone who used computers in the 80s/90s will remember the sounds of hard drives. It is part of the reason why I don't really get people that are putting solid state storage in their retro machines when the sound of the hard drive is part of the experience in my opinon.
@@arnlol guess let's wait for an emulator. Still ssd but also makes sounds and works slow 😄
@@woaln5213 I doubt there would be enough demand for someone to actually do something like this, I assume it wouldn't be easy to make, but yeah it would be nice for those who doesn't want to use actual drives over reliability concerns but are liking the sounds
@@woaln5213 Believe it or not, someone already has made a hard drive emulator! It's called the HDD Clicker
@@woaln5213 That's like how some electric cars play engine sounds. Personally I dislike something that is fake and pretending to be something else.
6:56 The MiniScribe 3000 series! 5.25” half-height, VCM actuators, all quality-look at that top casting-nice to see… Hope you may have a 3053 and another MiniScribe favourite-the unusual patented moving magnet 8051A further along in the video :-)
I do not have a 3053 nor a 8051A. I really wish I had a 8051A though, they are very interesting but I have never seen one at a decent price so far...
6:47 i love this one
I've been waiting for a new HDD vid. Thanks dude
Always loved the Maxtor PCB weird names and sometimes logos!
Now, do a video about your WD Raptor. Very interesting modern drive imo
I will consider it, but I need to finish the ones from the last "lot" video I made in which I said I would make videos of them, they already got delayed quite a bit by this collection video taking a lot of time to make
@@arnlol So you need to to the videos about the Quantum Fireball and the ST3391A in that lot.
42:20 still have the 320gb version from 2005 in my modern gaming pc
17:22 - Had one of those too. Always took forever to spin down, sounded amazing.
That must have taken a lot of effort.
Thank you
0:06 This Sounds Looks Like Citroen C4 Car Behind The Hard Drive Sounds engines Revving up.
35:25 that sounds like the seektest that modern seagates do
Never thought i could see hard drive library in book shelf's 👍
This is gonna become the new sorting algorithm video, this is amazing
Dude you're mad ... and you got them in a short period of time, too. Collection tuned out pretty nice ^^
Well I have been into hard drive sounds since so long, but I just was listening to them on youtube until I decided to grow the collection in 2021. No regrets! I wish I had better luck though, drives with bad sectors or that arrive dead and sellers shipping with no protection is common sadly.
@@arnlol That's why I rarely buy drives nowadays.Too expensive and too faulty. I think for now my collection is finished. Not that I have all models I wanted ...
@@gennidee Yeah that's certainly a gamble that you have to take and finding good deals can be complicated, also the lower priced lots often end up poorly packaged as well. That's a hobby where you have to accept you'll have some loss when you get into it, and it's only going to get worse as time goes by. Bummer that you couldn't get all the models you wanted, but really not too surprizing at this point
0:32 And This Sound Looking Like V12 F1 Engine Or, Something Like that...
man how do i love old hdd,s seeks and even better old floppy drives seeking amn the most beautiful music to my ears
I have a load of these in boxes somewhere, should see if they are still functional.
Nice, this was a joy to watch. I got a question. For how long were these drives unpowered before you got them running for this video? I know I have a drive somewhere in my house (with quite important data) that I haven't powered on for around 7-8 years, and I'm utterly paranoid that it won't work when I finally find it and try to use it. Should I be worried about this?
very nice collection of drives, sounds good
Do I know you?
@@Alexis_-cj2nx how the frick did you get here, alexis12
Those maxtor atlas drives are crazy. I never heard them before.
Great hard drive collection you got there!
23:27 Sounds like the hard drive in an iMac G3
seagate medalist 😍
Wow, the sound that WD-384R makes almost drives me to buy one
0:08 sounds like a car engine doing a rev up!
This channel is criminally underrated.
Do you really think so? After all, there can only be so many people interested by the very niche thing that is old hard drive sounds. I feel like getting a few hundred, or even a few thousands views sometimes isn’t that bad considering the subject :)
i listened this to sleep, thanks
finally, a full update!
I salvaged one seagate 1 TB SATA hdd from a retired office PC, they restored it using the built in recovery partition and gave it to me, in Hard Disk Sentinel shows as bad, 76 reallocated sectors and 30 days estimated lifetime remaining. Having a modern PC I set the UEFI to BIOS and my controllers to IDE mode so I can use MHDDl, in the first run it showed a >500ms block and a second run nothing abnormal, but I bumped the Caps Lock key and i discovered that toggling it it will cause a delay marking whatever sector it is reading as red l, so I guess hardware interrupts interfere with the scan, HDsentinel ran read/writes tests without any new reallocation or significant delay but is SMART which is concerning me, I didnt save any important data to it, but is running fine, it has a power on time of 1034 days, no unusual noises or any concerning issues. i boot from an SSD so said drive spends most of the time spun down when im not using my virtual machines
good 👍👏
1:45 good sound
14:18 damn what happened to that drive?
39:13 this is the hard drive i have on my Philips DVD recorder from 2005
This is my dream
What is a dream, having a big collection of hard drives like this? If you want, you can still make it not a dream, it'll take some time and money but it's possible. In early 2021 when I really started I only had a few drives, and now I'm slowly but surely getting close to 300 drives...
this was so inspirational 😎😎
40:30
I have the 200GB model of this HDD. I'm pretty sure it's dead, i don't have any PCs that can read it.
Hard to believe that some old drives from around 25-30+ years ago still work today (maybe even more so at the time of upload if you're reading this months, if not years from then). We sure have come a long way in terms of data storage room.
Do you ever sell your drives? I am looking for an ide quantum fireball st 6.4gb for my dos and windows 95 gaming pc.
The Miniscribe 3425 sounds like it’s about to launch itself into space.
i have the seagate medalist st32132a. this year it suddently stopped working😔😔😔
You should add drive RPMs to the info card that pops up at the start of each drive
i have a similar HGST 4tb. can feel it in my feet when its doing something
Went through 3 of them within a year a or two. Absolute garbage drives
we need a biggest to smallest drive comparison!
I noticed several drives missing. Did any more die? I watched all of this and it was amazing!
This is all the drives I currently have, so if there was drives in the video from two years ago that are not in this one, then yes it means that they have died.
hi man.... do you dispose of this recording files anywhere? i'm interested in create a library of these sounds!
I have to ask, which one has your favorite sound wise? I think mine is the Seagate ST351A/X.
It's really hard to chose tbh, there's a lot of drives that I like. I would say the Kalok KL-3100 because I like that high pitched stepper sound but I might be a bit biased because that drive was from a small manufacturer and unreliable, thus happens to be quite rare... The Daeyoung DX-3120 probably would've been a good contender if only its PCB didn't die...
Remember the Quantum LCT drives with the Lucent motor controller chip which would burn out.... and of course the Fujitsu MPG series with the defective Cirrus chip which caused failure en mass
On Wikipedia it is said that it is the LCT 10 that has a chip that could burn out on the PCB, the one I have seems to be working perfectly and I hope it will stay this way. Didn't know that Fujitsu had that kind of reliability issues though
I don’t have as many hdds to my collection but still I’d need a shelf to put them on 😂
Ps: I have this model 17:55 on my very old Compaq all in one desktop pc with Windows 95, still working fine, only some bad sectors, good times, the sound of my childhood and first ever pc experience
My mom got me that shelf for my 30th birthday with the sole purpose of putting my drives in there. My collection is more than twice the size now and that shelf is getting really full. I enjoy having my drives on display like this, with easy access to whichever one I want to use or record for the videos.
Nice video.
Even nicer if you can add timestamp for each drive.
I have a "sleeper build" with my coolermaster wavemaster case. I still have the original fans in it making a whole lotta noise. Thanks to your amazing nostalgic video I'm going to put a hard drive in it now😂
Just put some Noctuas in there
@@one_step_sideways funny enough I did 👍
I still have 2x 75GB 75GXPs which still work.
how many bad sectors?
I’m beginning to wonder how large the current collection is, tbh
Do you really want to know... With the drives I got today, it's at... 495 drives. It grew very significantly in 2024.
its like asmr
I have only 83 Hard Drives from SATA to IDE 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch
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Question is, would you trust your data on any of these? (Working healthy drives of course)
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38:14 Put electric tape around the edges of the cover, or it will die from dust. the original silver tape acts as the seal so dust does not get in.
There's some tape there, it is clear tape, you can see the light reflecting on it. With nothing it certainly wouldn't last very long at all that's for sure (you would hear a really loud air noise as well). It's kind of a miracle that this drive even works at all
@@arnlol Oh yeah, sorry, didn't see that. yeah sure is a miracle that its still alive.
Are you sure there isn't a seal under the lid? I disassembled one of these slimline Maxtors about 11 or so years ago but I can't remember.
Some of them sound like air raid sirens or car engines lol.
do another!
How much, erm... "homework" is in all of those drives?
But are they containing OS?
Some do, some are empty.
Hdds are my worst fear after mine corrupted and its taking like a month to get the data back
Yeah hard drives, old or new, with little or a lot of usage can fail. that's why you should have a copy of your data on multiple devices to reduce the risk of loosing things. SSDs can also fail, and it sometimes really isn't predictable
@@arnlol yeah, btw good news, i finnaly hot the data back, now im gonna copy it on a brand new sandisk 256gb micro sd
I mean, let’s be honest here no one really expects a like 40-year-old drive to be still running and healthy and not fail from the internal already a.k.a. the first drive you showed us
I have a few working 10 MB hard drives from 1984.
Just full format the we red 4tb and there won’t be any pending sectors
I did try to write over them but it did not work, they would go away then any try to read made them come back. Since that video the drive got way worse, with many many bad sectors, so I removed it from service.
please fix those bad sectors
If only it was that easy x')
500gb IDE HDD 😮😮
Yep, and largest capacity drive that Maxtor ever made before being taken over by Seagate. It is not the largest IDE drive though, as Seagate actually made 750GB models but they seem to be quite rare. VWestlife made a video 7 years ago talking about said 750GB IDE Seagate
@@arnlol i know VWestlife and i didn't seen his video , i will watch after finishing the saison 12 of south park
@@arnloli stumbled across a 750gb seagate IDE drive a few years ago and never bothered to check it out yet. I guess i can dig it out sometime and do a spinup/spindown or mini review of it.