Hard drive collection - Spin up/down of over 70 hard drives from 40MB to 4TB !

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  • čas přidán 21. 04. 2021
  • I made an updated video in April 2023, 189 drives now, check it here : • Spin up/down of 189 ha...
    20 Minutes of hard drives spinning up and down. . The first 6 drives are opened ones, then the rest of the drives are sorted by capacity (The smaller capacity drives are earlier in the video).
    Note : Some of the older drives need a controller to do their seektest. For those I plugged them in my Pentium III PC. I cut the recording to remove the waiting time for my motherboard to POST.
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Komentáře • 144

  • @Ervytron
    @Ervytron Před 9 měsíci +19

    1:28 I love this sound. Sounds like a music

  • @ErikS-
    @ErikS- Před rokem +12

    10:28 - Love this one!
    Sounds like a jet engine powering up!

  • @Fogolol
    @Fogolol Před 2 lety +35

    there's asmr then there's these beauties humming like angels

  • @stepa22
    @stepa22 Před rokem +15

    9:22 the HDD opening a bottle of wine: Oh, not again!

    • @Techno-Universal
      @Techno-Universal Před 2 měsíci +1

      The wine also corrupts and destroys more sectors every time! :)

  • @RedstoneMiner18
    @RedstoneMiner18 Před rokem +11

    1:41 i like how the drive is 1 WHOLE MEGABYTE larger than the previous 40mb drive

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ Před rokem +17

    5:58 i love that "horn" sound, like a warning before engine start 🙂
    I had that drive in my first PC 386dx 40MHz in 1993. 😍

    • @kirbyyasha
      @kirbyyasha Před 2 měsíci

      Yaknow. Before the clip even came I knew which HDD brand you were referring to and I agree with the horn sound. I loved it.

  • @mr.choice86
    @mr.choice86 Před 2 lety +20

    Amazing how many different memories and feelings I get by just hearing these drives spin up or seek. 8:48 seeking of this drive takes me back to my childhood. Love this video!

  • @Choochinc
    @Choochinc Před 2 lety +19

    19:43 The Seagate U5 was the hard drive I had in my first computer back in the 2000s. I had the 10GB model. The sound of that seek test is so nostalgic to me, I recognized it immediately despite looking away from the video.

  • @mr.bright684
    @mr.bright684 Před 2 lety +9

    4:46 I will buy that hard drive! Fkng beautiful 😍❤️

  • @muhammadsyamsudinalie3111

    beautiful retro sound... i love them all

  • @thegeforce6625
    @thegeforce6625 Před 2 lety +26

    There's something oddly calming about the Quantum Viking II 9.1GB (13:51) quitely spinning up and initalising.

    • @mr.choice86
      @mr.choice86 Před 2 lety

      Now I had to watch the whole video to find out which one..

    • @carlwheezerofsouls3273
      @carlwheezerofsouls3273 Před rokem

      @@mr.choice86 and ill have to do the same! can someone link a timestamp for this thing?!

    • @mr.choice86
      @mr.choice86 Před rokem

      @@carlwheezerofsouls3273 I dont remember but I liked the initializing of 8:48 even more

  • @RowanBird779
    @RowanBird779 Před rokem +5

    Spinning platters covered in magnet dust is something that can never replicated, from the spinning, clicking, and odd gradual sector failure
    I also have a 1TB WD Caviar black, I never remembered what it sounded like (Was always masked by everything else, specially those stupid front case fans), failed a long time ago, still never found out what's wrong with it

  • @garyceriotti850
    @garyceriotti850 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for showing the reverse side of these drives also! Fascinating !

  • @cdos9186
    @cdos9186 Před 3 lety +15

    I’ve heard those early Samsung drives like the one at 4:00 were some of the most delicate drives ever, if you were rough with them in any sort of way like place them down hard, they would have damage occur. Never heard one of those, I really do love the sound it makes.

    • @enterchannelname7568
      @enterchannelname7568 Před 3 lety +2

      Got a bunch of these old drives (many were already dead), and can confirm that they are extremely sensitive.

    • @cdos9186
      @cdos9186 Před 3 lety

      @@enterchannelname7568 Interesting! Can you make a video of them? What is the failure mode on them?

    • @enterchannelname7568
      @enterchannelname7568 Před 3 lety

      @@cdos9186 Unfortunately I don't have them anymore (sorry if I made it seem that way in the comment), but most of the drives suffered from heads clicking repeatedly and others had pretty bad scraping sounds. I'm not really an expert and didn't know too much about them. A family member owned a small internet provider in the late 90s and early 2000s. They didn't clean out a warehouse that had a bunch of old computers from their office until years after closing. It seems that they bought many of these drives for their PCs.
      Edit: yeah they still used pretty old hardware in some of their PCs. I remember the brand because I didn't know samsung made hard drives until then.

    • @cdos9186
      @cdos9186 Před 3 lety

      ​@@enterchannelname7568 That sucks because those Samsung drives are fairly rare now. Better yet I've never heard one fail but that sounds pretty bad. Would've been nice if you still had them to see the inside of one.

  • @4dxl
    @4dxl Před měsícem

    Some of these are gold, thanks for sharing

  • @vinny142
    @vinny142 Před 3 dny

    Nostalgia. Memories. Some nightmares, mostly a prelude to "C:> doom.exe"

  • @soaebhasankhokon9521
    @soaebhasankhokon9521 Před 3 lety +7

    Very helpful video to Know the history of the old to new Hard drive (1990-2021).. thanks bro ❤️❤️

  • @mima85
    @mima85 Před 2 lety +4

    That's the type of content the Internet is for, at least for us geeks/nerds :-D

  • @wiher7472
    @wiher7472 Před rokem

    I have a hdd in my new pc bought about 7 months ago. It has also a all in one water cooler and this whole time i thought that the pump was faulty making this noise. Now that ive watched this vid im convinced to drop my hdd from a building. Thank you!

  • @mr.steven1923
    @mr.steven1923 Před rokem +3

    You can say what you want but the miniscribe 4:45 and the Maxtor 7850av 8:26 are the best bieutiful peaceful start up! And the seagate 2:12 !

  • @jondixon9094
    @jondixon9094 Před 3 lety +2

    Now this is something I’ve been looking for.

  • @Techno-Universal
    @Techno-Universal Před 2 měsíci

    4:46
    This would be the hard drives that they were possibly using in the computers within the Wonders Of Life pavilion in EPCOT! :)

  • @mackjsm7105
    @mackjsm7105 Před 7 měsíci

    wow dude... this was a LOT of work.. ty

  • @Raveseeker
    @Raveseeker Před rokem +1

    Vintage Nerd ASMR. Open it up, be transported back to the heady days of Eternal September.

  • @ryonbrand7885
    @ryonbrand7885 Před 2 lety +1

    I put a WD Blue 4TB in my PC a while back, it makes a decently nice noise on startup, for a new hard drive, although I wish it was a bit louder.

  • @yourbigfan1777
    @yourbigfan1777 Před 2 lety +4

    8:42 and thats where the 1GB disks history began!

  • @spontanvideok246
    @spontanvideok246 Před 2 lety

    Wooow. This amazing Video. Very wonderful Old HDD sounds my Childhood😍. I love spinning up and heads detected sounds.😍👌👍👍❤❤Please more more more video.

  • @ErikS-
    @ErikS- Před rokem +1

    14:38 - Let's call the controllerboard "FISH'N M16"

  • @Stay_alert
    @Stay_alert Před 2 lety +2

    4:45
    Sounds like a go-kart

  • @randomyt666
    @randomyt666 Před rokem +1

    That 6gb caviar drive has an almost identical seektest to the WD1600JS. It's so similar

  • @nicolabonazzi3305
    @nicolabonazzi3305 Před 2 měsíci

    The foking noise of the quantum fireball keep me company for 10y

  • @strikdevroblox9079
    @strikdevroblox9079 Před rokem

    Every hard drive sound is satisfyingly

  • @samihsantos908
    @samihsantos908 Před 3 lety

    Hey, this is awesome

  • @Calisota
    @Calisota Před 2 lety +1

    1:37 More bass than any Trap music... Did not expect that but also Im not disappointed

  • @matthewsvideos8235
    @matthewsvideos8235 Před rokem

    Worst thing is Thai have had most of these drives at some point. I still have the early stepper 3.5 Seagate. Didn’t have the 5.25 Miniscribe.

  • @aleksandarlenhart2078
    @aleksandarlenhart2078 Před 3 lety +4

    1:28 that sg jammin

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 Před 2 lety +1

      Fact
      Then there's that western Digital boi that beats seagate with 1 megabyte of more capacity

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ Před rokem +1

    4:47 it stats like a racing cars or F1

  • @Zeddify
    @Zeddify Před 2 lety +1

    15:13 hard drive go æEeEeEe.

  • @footballuniverse4768
    @footballuniverse4768 Před 3 lety +1

    The first regular drive had a meow at the end

  • @doomer37
    @doomer37 Před 2 lety +1

    This is a very nice collection bro!

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert Před 2 lety +1

      @doomer37 After seeing a couple of your videos including a hard drive collection video, I wanted to ask you how you use your SCSI drives. I can't seem to find anything anywhere. I have Serial attached SCSI (SAS), and 60-pin SCSI. (60-pin looks exactly like 80-pin, but smaller. It's also called Ultra-3 SCSI) If you were to be able to help me out, I need to get one for a hard drive collection video I'm gonna do.

    • @doomer37
      @doomer37 Před 2 lety

      @@Stay_alert Well firstly SAS is a completely different standard than SCSI. I don't have a controller for that. I do have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI card for PCI. So far it's been able to interface with every SCSI drive I own. You can even boot from it.

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert Před 2 lety

      @@doomer37 Okay, where can I get one? Also, are you sure it's 60-pin?

    • @doomer37
      @doomer37 Před 2 lety

      @@Stay_alert There's no 60 pin, there is 68 pin though. it has a 50 and 68 connector, I use an adapter to use 80 pin SCSI. I'd recommend ebay.

    • @Stay_alert
      @Stay_alert Před 2 lety

      @@doomer37 Okay. I know you said you don't have any of the other SCSI, but can you help me find something for that too?
      PS: Thanks for the advice. I'm kinda new to this stuff. ' '^

  • @Stay_alert
    @Stay_alert Před 2 lety +2

    11:20
    By far the weirdest drive you've got. XD

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ Před rokem

    such a memories from the past 😍

  • @greensheen8759
    @greensheen8759 Před 2 měsíci

    Interesting, I've got some of the 2013 era HGSTs too and I'd always waited 10 seconds after shutdown to pull them out of the dock. Now I know it's more like 15 seconds for them to spin down fully

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  Před měsícem

      Yeah those HGST take a long time to spin down, they have 5 platters in them

  • @hariranormal5584
    @hariranormal5584 Před rokem

    some sounds like jet engine startup's. really beautiful and nostalgic anyhow

  • @precisionxt
    @precisionxt Před 5 měsíci +1

    “Lo-fi sounds to seek to”

  • @uc8tv
    @uc8tv Před 2 lety +2

    19:11 Seagate U4

  • @toddb930
    @toddb930 Před 2 lety +3

    Just think how many hard drive companies are left.

    • @lonely.toaster
      @lonely.toaster Před 2 měsíci

      Only three AFAIK. Seagate, WD, and Toshiba.

  • @theredytper
    @theredytper Před 2 lety +1

    The drive at 0:53 is a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV.

  • @Sebiohazard
    @Sebiohazard Před 2 lety

    Fantastique merci !!!

  • @daniel5074
    @daniel5074 Před rokem

    Love it

  • @VladAspida
    @VladAspida Před 2 měsíci

    Interesting hobby buddy.😁

  • @rnicoles9355
    @rnicoles9355 Před 2 lety +1

    I like these HDDs

  • @thegeforce6625
    @thegeforce6625 Před 2 lety +1

    Also really like the sounds of the Samsung SHA-3062A. (would it be possible to make a extended spindle motor sound video of that drive?)

  • @razorkill8522
    @razorkill8522 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Hi. nice collection.
    I have a question.
    what can cause bad sectors?

  • @MyComputerStudios_
    @MyComputerStudios_ Před 2 lety

    4:00 this hdd was manufactured on 24th of May 1993

  • @ErictheRN
    @ErictheRN Před rokem

    Nostalgic!!!!!!

  • @patrickbateman3490
    @patrickbateman3490 Před rokem

    Oh yeah, the immortal Maxtor 7440AV :)
    Unfortunately most of the Maxtor that followed were of opostive quality :p
    Special mention to the bigfoot, with derouting no classic seek sequence.... And oh, luck boy, you've a CHAMP hdd :)

  • @volvotech7404
    @volvotech7404 Před 2 lety

    17:28 i have that same WD500AAKX 500gb still in my pc with wd500 ssd. i have lot of those same older and new hdds

    • @imnotbeluga007
      @imnotbeluga007 Před rokem

      Same here. My ludicrously fragmented and slow boot drive. But it's more masked by the fan noise...

  • @TheRagingSound
    @TheRagingSound Před rokem +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @Nintendo3D5
    @Nintendo3D5 Před 7 měsíci

    I have similar 2009 Seagate drive, (w/ windows 7), except it has 192GB capacity, not 160

  • @retrotech486
    @retrotech486 Před 2 lety

    that Seagate's ST-157 series was i think the last seagate's with stepper motor ;)

    • @uc8tv
      @uc8tv Před rokem

      Actually that medal goes to the Seagate ST-351A/X at 1:25 :)

  • @grxninesix
    @grxninesix Před 2 lety

    Toujours ton légendaire Seagate en début de vidéo ^^

    • @iSnarkTV
      @iSnarkTV Před 2 lety

      Tiens un français 🙂🙂

  • @OpenGL4.6
    @OpenGL4.6 Před 2 lety +1

    9:20 Yes, failing heads.

    • @XLGaming
      @XLGaming Před rokem

      could also be a degrading platter. those Malaysia Western Digital drives are known for being pretty terrible in general, so it could be a combination of both!

    • @OpenGL4.6
      @OpenGL4.6 Před rokem

      @@XLGaming The Malaysia ones always ran too hot, resulting in head failures, PCB failures and media degradation.

  • @BluePikmin10422
    @BluePikmin10422 Před 5 měsíci

    2:13 my dad had 2 of those running

  • @miketech1024
    @miketech1024 Před rokem

    This is music to me!

  • @fra93ilgrande
    @fra93ilgrande Před rokem +1

    OMG I still have the Quantum Fireball 1GB 😂 has lots of bad sectors but still working and I could install Windows 95 again! 🤣

  • @ATGM.NEET.aka.celie2004

    old hard disks💟

  • @Fisjjj
    @Fisjjj Před rokem

    15:45 i have almost the same hard drive but with 26A at end instead 22A

  • @adinnugroho6544
    @adinnugroho6544 Před 11 měsíci

    1:37 : It has some Bass Sound. I feel like listening Diesel Engine sound 😂

  • @ACompExp
    @ACompExp Před 2 lety +1

    I've heard that most Western Digital caviar hard drives from 1997 and 1998 are quite unreliable, as Western Digital was having some financial issues and they thought of making the hard drives for cheaper. So the Western Digital 22500 you have is known to slow like this, and it might die in a while. But except for that, there are barely any reliability issues for most Western Digital hard drives pre 1997 and post 1998, if they are taken care of properly.

    • @carlwheezerofsouls3273
      @carlwheezerofsouls3273 Před rokem

      it seems like some of the most reliable hardrives are from either western digital, or seagate, at least when it comes to the more modern ones.

    • @razzledev
      @razzledev Před rokem

      My 250GB WD drive has 31000 power on hours, still 0 failures or bad sectors.

  • @HikikomoriDev
    @HikikomoriDev Před 2 lety

    These reports have a lot of detail to them...

  • @ACompExp
    @ACompExp Před 2 lety

    How did you make that transparent enclosure for the opened drives? Maybe some cut pieces of plastic taped together?

    • @randomyt666
      @randomyt666 Před rokem

      I think it's cling wrap. I can't see any lines indicating tape.

    • @uc8tv
      @uc8tv Před rokem

      @@randomyt666 He uses clear DVD cases I believe he said that in a comment on one of his newer videos.

  • @flozon5240
    @flozon5240 Před rokem

    15:13 i have that exact same hard drive

  • @MyComputerStudios_
    @MyComputerStudios_ Před 2 lety +1

    16:13 One of my relative's old computer's hard disk sounded like this.

  • @yusufjaved9895
    @yusufjaved9895 Před 2 lety

    cool

  • @Null42x86
    @Null42x86 Před 2 lety +1

    Have you tried to do the backups of the drivers?

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 Před 2 lety

      I think there isn't really nothing on there, bet most was formatted

  • @stef_catalin_22
    @stef_catalin_22 Před 11 měsíci

    1:06

  • @highwayautolife3155
    @highwayautolife3155 Před 6 měsíci

    Вся жизнь перед глазами прошла...

  • @smartguy9765
    @smartguy9765 Před rokem

    No velociraptor?

  • @hobbified
    @hobbified Před 2 dny

    Got any 10K / 15K RPM drives?

  • @YUMMIIIIIIIIIIIII
    @YUMMIIIIIIIIIIIII Před 2 měsíci

    how do i open up the round seagate drive

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  Před 2 měsíci

      I'm not sure what drive you mean, but on most drives there's one or multiple screws hidden under the labels. Most drives use T8 torx screws to hold the cover in place (but not always, and sometimes the screws under the labels are using a different size bit)

  • @Kali_Krause
    @Kali_Krause Před 2 lety

    Never seen a Champ hard drive before. Did they only make them in parts of Europe?

    • @mikixyz123
      @mikixyz123 Před 2 lety

      some people say it's very rare to find one

    • @JeremyLevi
      @JeremyLevi Před rokem

      I ran into one in the wild here in Canada, but only once.

    • @gshaw0
      @gshaw0 Před rokem

      @@mikixyz123 I've just been given a pile of them by a friend at a computer shop, very thin, half the height of a normal drive. Be interesting to see how many still work

  • @curiousnomadic
    @curiousnomadic Před 2 měsíci

    Can't imagine the massive waste of money that went into all these.

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  Před 2 měsíci +1

      It's just like any kind of hobby/collection. Is it worth it, probably not, do I enjoy messing with old drives and listening to their sounds? Yes I do, so I don't really care if it is not worth the money.

  • @getlingganyooger
    @getlingganyooger Před 2 lety +1

    3:49 a floppy disk sound on background

  • @Stefan_38
    @Stefan_38 Před 5 měsíci

    What are drive sectors?

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  Před 5 měsíci

      I don't really know how to explain well but every drive is split in sectors that each hold 512 bytes of data (4KB on some modern drives) and all have an unique adress. It's used to be able to find where the data is on the drive, when you store a file the file system records the adress of the sectors that file uses to be able to find it again.
      When I'm mentionning bad sectors it means that some sectors on the drive are not able to store data properly anymore.

  • @BimBims
    @BimBims Před 2 měsíci

    Gw punya 80 MB hdd 😂
    Itu rasanya kayak 8 TB saat ini 😂

  • @Radek__
    @Radek__ Před rokem

    0:21 what is, that black thing on the plate? wtf?

    • @sneugler
      @sneugler Před rokem +2

      It uses the wind generated by the spinning platters to unlock the heads. Otherwise they can’t move in transit

    • @Radek__
      @Radek__ Před rokem +1

      @@sneugler I'm surprised.
      thanks

  • @micosstar
    @micosstar Před rokem

    why so many? | yt recommend

  • @grady631
    @grady631 Před 4 měsíci +1

    It pisses me off that a hard drive from 2005 has more space than I do, fuck HP and their eMMC cost cutting.

    • @arnlol
      @arnlol  Před 4 měsíci

      The amount of storage in some cheap laptops with eMMC is ridiculous, they are basically making brand new ewaste.

    • @grady631
      @grady631 Před 3 měsíci

      @@arnlol yeah, I'm gonna get an older used computer for cheaper than the laptop and have better specs than 2007 specs.

  • @ki.russian7
    @ki.russian7 Před 3 měsíci

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  • @RealEpikCartfrenYT
    @RealEpikCartfrenYT Před 2 lety

    Too many bad sectors

  • @Sad_Bandy
    @Sad_Bandy Před 11 měsíci

    5:15 is that miniscribe hard drive gay💀☠

  • @razorkill8522
    @razorkill8522 Před 10 měsíci

    Hi. nice collection.
    I have a question.
    what can cause bad sectors?

    • @mathmos2526
      @mathmos2526 Před 6 měsíci

      Hard drive sectors are planted with magnetic particles that flip when stimuled by the magnetic field of the heads, a bad Sector can be caused by old Age, phisical shock, too much use, boot Sector viruses, PBC issues and heat😊

    • @mathmos2526
      @mathmos2526 Před 6 měsíci

      And if you use your hard drive for very long periods at once , that can also cause bad sectors