HDD startup sounds are just as cool as car engine startups in my opinion. The Hitachi Deskstar at 3:58 is especially awesome, it sounds like a UFO taking off!
Hard to believe that in a few more years, these sounds may never be heard again in real computers. I still remember the sound of my first hard drive -- an 85MB Maxtor. Talk about an epic startup sound! Every time you powered on the PC, you'd swear the case would explode at any second.
I just bough a 3tb wd blue drive the other day because my ssd was too small. Hard drives will stay around for a while longer just because they still have better price per gigabyte
Maybe HDD's will cease to be included in home computers and laptops if they can't provide a good enough advantage in price / GB, but time will show that. SSD prices have fallen a lot more quickly than HDD prices in the last 10 years, so HDD's need to really pick up the pace or they will be left behind in maybe the next few years. There seems to have been serious stagnation in the progress of HDD prices per GB since the floods in Thailand (in 2011?) which damaged their production facilities.
That's only for home computing though, I don't believe that HDDs will cease to be used in a datacentre setting during the next few decades, since tape storage hasn't died out in that use either.
@@yourbigfan1777 Dunno about that, I have bad experiences of the lifespan of MicroSD cards, but good experiences of both SSD's and HDD's. My first SSD is still in use without problems after 9 years.
Thanks for recording such clear sounds! It's been a while since I had a HDD, and the loud startup sound on my 2TB Barracuda scared me, but this video has reassured me. Guess my old HDD were all just smaller and had slower (and quieter) startups
I just made my first build not too long ago and i had a 2tb HDD for storage and was freaking out about these sounds, thinking I damaged them or something! now that I know its normal, ive come to really appreciate them, it just sounds so cool. Thanks for the vid! for giving me peace of mind and letting me hear all sorts of HDD startup sounds, great stuff
This is very relaxing. I just loved the startup sound of hard drive especially the older one (even better when combined with a floppy drive seek sound). The amount of engineering goes into making hard drives always amazes me. Please make more videos, cheers!
That Maxtor drive and the 2009ish 1 TB WD Green drive are both very nostalgic sounds for me. My first two computers that I ever did much with had those drives in them. :)
I remember the hard drive in my first laptop at school, it sounded so unique. So very loud, with a lovely grown as the heads moved. She took about 30 seconds to spin down again
Man, i recently changed my hhd for a m.2 (it had the o.s. on it) and im gonna tell you, i already miss all the buzzing it made. It gave my pc a sense of "old school" or something like that, after all, all my old desktops had an hdd on them, so i got used to the noise, and the slowness. I still have a 1tb hdd tho, so i didnt lose everything.
5:34 the Maxtor 7L250S0 250gb I also got that drive in 2006 from a Sony Vaio Machine it's been an absolute trooper No bad sectors yet this drive has out lasted most of my other drives and I use the drive almost daily today
As an owner of many old WD and Segate drives that I bought along time ago, I could confirm 2 things. One they sound good and two that they were expensive because I got the higher capacity.
2:27 I had a 750GB Barracuda with that same exact startup sound!!! I remember it like it was yesterday! It was an old drive, 3 platters at 250GB each, ran hot, and only SATA gen 2... or 3 gbps. I think the DoM was sometime back in 2007... I forget, drive has been scrapped for over 2 years by now. Wasn't a bad drive, but sadly I can confirm Seagate's reputation for faulty models. That Barracuda failed on me with a horrific head crash. Was using PC normally, wasn't even doing intensive work on the drive itself. I was playing a video game (installed on a separate SSD, btw). Next thing I know a HORRIFIC noise comes from the tower and computer freezes up from I/O errors. That's all I clearly remember from that day, unfortunately.
Awesome Video! I was looking for the noise level of a WD hard drive because I wanted one. I got the WD Blue WD10EZEX and other than the airflow noise, I can’t even tell that it’s there!
Looking at all these drives working perfectly makes me feel really well into investing into HDDs instead of going full SSD. I've got 10TB worth of drives in my personal rig and I'm planning on purchasing 80TB more over the next couple years.
Hey thanks! This was all recorded with a Zoom H6 using the X-Y microphones. The mics were placed less than an inch away from the drives. Glad you enjoyed!
2:27 = I still have mine in good conditions. Actually, I have two GNU/Linux partitions that I often use for avoid to pulls out life cycles instead of use my Windows partition.
Well... they're all the same nowadays. Toshiba therefore tend to be my go-to, due to their relatively more interesting HDDs and sometimes cheaper prices.
@@matttesterman4199 Well, I certainly would be interested in whether an optical drive really could make a sound like this. It's not something I'd ever expect.
had the exact same deskstar. careful with that one. the platters are stupid heavy compared to most drives and even the slighted twerk while on will cause issues.
Oh those caviar green 1tb are the most reliable drive I’ve seen so far. Bought them new 2010 been used in my main pc up until a few months ago. Both are still in perfect status
It does! I have the WD10EZEX drive and a lot of Seagates make WD sounds. I have a 320GB Seagate with a spindle sound like the ST3500630AS, the spinup of a WD1200JS, the isle of a Seagate, and the spindown of the WD1200JS.
If you get an SSD, then they are gone. And so is your storage space. And money. You can also use foam on the sides of the drive and HP’s rubber screws.
The simple, effective and expensive answer is to get an SSD. Why would you want to though, I don't know, since the sound is half the fun. 2.5" drives are much quieter than 3.5"s, at the expensive of some extra cost and possible SMR (look for WD5000LPCX, Toshiba MQ01ABF050/HDWK105 or Toshiba MQ01ABD100/HDWJ110 for non-SMRs).
@@EverNight76 Frankly I do enjoy the HDD noise, but I do recognise that not everyone does. Since you said you wanted to "prevent these sounds", the only way to completely do so is to get a drive that is completely devoid of moving parts, aka an SSD. I do operate plenty of HDDs with equally epic spin up sounds though.
Es una belleza pero es demasiado pesado y muy sensible a las vibraciones,tengo uno de 500gb que por no poner dos tornillos tiene 23 sectores dañados,por suerte la cifra no ha subido desde 2015 el resto está practicamente perfecto
HDD startup sounds are just as cool as car engine startups in my opinion. The Hitachi Deskstar at 3:58 is especially awesome, it sounds like a UFO taking off!
Like a plane taking off.
I have one (most realibe drive of mine , no problems scince 08)
POV: you are charging up your railguns before taking on space pirates
Ok sounds like airplane
Wait, you ve seen the ufo? 🧐
The only thing I love about old Seagate drives is their epic spindle-start sounds.
duuuu deh whrRRRREEEEEEEEE
@@tredI9100 before the 7200.11 series, it was:
duu wreeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE click (The click is the seektest)
Hard to believe that in a few more years, these sounds may never be heard again in real computers.
I still remember the sound of my first hard drive -- an 85MB Maxtor. Talk about an epic startup sound! Every time you powered on the PC, you'd swear the case would explode at any second.
I just bough a 3tb wd blue drive the other day because my ssd was too small. Hard drives will stay around for a while longer just because they still have better price per gigabyte
@@karai5082 and HDDs have the much longer life
Maybe HDD's will cease to be included in home computers and laptops if they can't provide a good enough advantage in price / GB, but time will show that. SSD prices have fallen a lot more quickly than HDD prices in the last 10 years, so HDD's need to really pick up the pace or they will be left behind in maybe the next few years. There seems to have been serious stagnation in the progress of HDD prices per GB since the floods in Thailand (in 2011?) which damaged their production facilities.
That's only for home computing though, I don't believe that HDDs will cease to be used in a datacentre setting during the next few decades, since tape storage hasn't died out in that use either.
@@yourbigfan1777 Dunno about that, I have bad experiences of the lifespan of MicroSD cards, but good experiences of both SSD's and HDD's. My first SSD is still in use without problems after 9 years.
Love these sounds, brings nostalgia
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5:12
ST500DM002 got only 1 disk inside, that´s why it spins up so fast
if you notice some of the higher capacity drives take a bit longer to spin up before engaging the heads (possibly due to more platters)
Correct.
I have 3 of those Seagate drives in my PC, they are great drives.
Thanks for recording such clear sounds! It's been a while since I had a HDD, and the loud startup sound on my 2TB Barracuda scared me, but this video has reassured me. Guess my old HDD were all just smaller and had slower (and quieter) startups
I just made my first build not too long ago and i had a 2tb HDD for storage and was freaking out about these sounds, thinking I damaged them or something! now that I know its normal, ive come to really appreciate them, it just sounds so cool. Thanks for the vid! for giving me peace of mind and letting me hear all sorts of HDD startup sounds, great stuff
Needle of a WD: *starts moving*
Me: *How many Roentgen?*
3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible!
XD
It's not 3 Roentgen, it's 15,000 !
Only blacks and Re are noisy, but that's the noise of performance, y'know... :)
ALL THE ROENTGEN
I like this genre of music
beach house dabs!!!!
This is very relaxing. I just loved the startup sound of hard drive especially the older one (even better when combined with a floppy drive seek sound). The amount of engineering goes into making hard drives always amazes me. Please make more videos, cheers!
the satisfaction guarenteed on Maxtor hard drive is just like a guaranteed freshness label on a chips bag that has been packaged in a nuclear reactor
That's a lot of hard drives not gonna lie.
OMG, what a nostalgic sounds. Thank you so much. It brings so many memories :)
The Sergate Baracuda 7200.9 have a epic startup Sound.
3:59 Preparing UFO for startup
Very nice collection you have there. Love the Hitachi drives long startup
I just want you to know, the sounds of your hard drives are now immortalized in multiple films.... I shall not name which ones.
That Maxtor drive and the 2009ish 1 TB WD Green drive are both very nostalgic sounds for me. My first two computers that I ever did much with had those drives in them. :)
That's a very nice collection! Thank you!
Playing the audio of this video over a muted CustomGrow420 video is one of the funniest things I have ever experienced
interesting to hear the varied sounds.. even more interesting to see the careers and status of these drives.. trusty veterans
I love hard drives starting up... so calm sounding lol
5:23 I love the sound of maxtor out of nostalgia, it's the same as our PC in 2006
I remember the hard drive in my first laptop at school, it sounded so unique. So very loud, with a lovely grown as the heads moved. She took about 30 seconds to spin down again
Finally a youtube video that worth watching
Man, i recently changed my hhd for a m.2 (it had the o.s. on it) and im gonna tell you, i already miss all the buzzing it made. It gave my pc a sense of "old school" or something like that, after all, all my old desktops had an hdd on them, so i got used to the noise, and the slowness. I still have a 1tb hdd tho, so i didnt lose everything.
5:34 the Maxtor 7L250S0 250gb I also got that drive in 2006 from a Sony Vaio Machine it's been an absolute trooper No bad sectors yet this drive has out lasted most of my other drives and I use the drive almost daily today
Ahh, the good old Hitachi Deathstar.
I though Deathstar was only IBM?
This is the asmr all pc builders love
HDD: Car with a combustion engine
SSD: Tesla
PC cooler: jet engine
That could be true, but I like a silent computer and a loud car
I love the sound! You have too many hard drives man.
FranzJ brought me here
하드디스크 스핀업 동작음 제가 기대 했던 영상이 바로 여기 있네요! ㅎㅎ
Both of my first PCs had WDs, memories
As an owner of many old WD and Segate drives that I bought along time ago, I could confirm 2 things. One they sound good and two that they were expensive because I got the higher capacity.
3:58 was the best!
I was worried that my hdd sounded like thay when y started my pc, but it sounds exactly like this!! great sound
2:27 I had a 750GB Barracuda with that same exact startup sound!!! I remember it like it was yesterday!
It was an old drive, 3 platters at 250GB each, ran hot, and only SATA gen 2... or 3 gbps. I think the DoM was sometime back in 2007... I forget, drive has been scrapped for over 2 years by now.
Wasn't a bad drive, but sadly I can confirm Seagate's reputation for faulty models. That Barracuda failed on me with a horrific head crash.
Was using PC normally, wasn't even doing intensive work on the drive itself. I was playing a video game (installed on a separate SSD, btw). Next thing I know a HORRIFIC noise comes from the tower and computer freezes up from I/O errors. That's all I clearly remember from that day, unfortunately.
These are all much newer than anything I have in my collection, but very cool nonetheless
Awesome Video! I was looking for the noise level of a WD hard drive because I wanted one. I got the WD Blue WD10EZEX and other than the airflow noise, I can’t even tell that it’s there!
3:58 sounds just like a laptop CD/DVD drive
At 5:13, the reason why the drive starts up really fast is because the drive has only 1 platter.
Its so satifying
I felt it when it did the BRRRRRRRRRT.
Thank you for this
5:23 I used to have one of these in an external enclosure, until my 10-year old brother kindly threw it down the stairs >:/
What a great idea!
Rest in pieces
Looking at all these drives working perfectly makes me feel really well into investing into HDDs instead of going full SSD. I've got 10TB worth of drives in my personal rig and I'm planning on purchasing 80TB more over the next couple years.
Wow, these are some great recordings! What mic did you use to pick up such soft sounds?
Hey thanks! This was all recorded with a Zoom H6 using the X-Y microphones. The mics were placed less than an inch away from the drives. Glad you enjoyed!
@@techstuff0918 i have recor listen on twiter
2:27 = I still have mine in good conditions. Actually, I have two GNU/Linux partitions that I often use for avoid to pulls out life cycles instead of use my Windows partition.
I need more
I still have an HDD from 2006 from my old family PC and it sounds like a printer when reading/writing.
Hitachi Desktar sounds like a 52x CD Drive!
6:11 I have that same drive in my old desktop and the startup sound is the same.
Western Digital is perfect. Change my mind
Right
Hitachi.
Cuz its western
Well... they're all the same nowadays. Toshiba therefore tend to be my go-to, due to their relatively more interesting HDDs and sometimes cheaper prices.
1000th like, awesome
Thank you for sharing this. I have a new computer which has an optical hard drive and wanted to make sure the start up sound was normal.
Optical drives don't make nearly the same sounds as these, though?
@@TheDragonFire123 Mine do though.
@@matttesterman4199 Then why not record it to prove it?
@@TheDragonFire123 Because I don't care if you don't believe me.
@@matttesterman4199 Well, I certainly would be interested in whether an optical drive really could make a sound like this. It's not something I'd ever expect.
Miss the sound of stepper motors in hard disks.
had the exact same deskstar. careful with that one. the platters are stupid heavy compared to most drives and even the slighted twerk while on will cause issues.
cyberpunk sounds :)
i was hoping to hear a broken one when i read "Status"
Oh those caviar green 1tb are the most reliable drive I’ve seen so far. Bought them new 2010 been used in my main pc up until a few months ago. Both are still in perfect status
5:12 sounds similar to the WD Blue WD10EZEX HDD
It does! I have the WD10EZEX drive and a lot of Seagates make WD sounds. I have a 320GB Seagate with a spindle sound like the ST3500630AS, the spinup of a WD1200JS, the isle of a Seagate, and the spindown of the WD1200JS.
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I have same drive in 1:31 that starts exactly same like that
franzj
i have a st3500630as and its very loud while seeking
Its like im living on an aircraft carrier
Do you still check the comments? If you do, could we get a video of the WD20EFRX in action?
Electric car startup videos in the future.
and SSD startup
@@SlofSi SSD doesnt have any sounds
@@yourbigfan1777 That was my point, electric car startup is almost as quiet as an SSD.
Too bad you didn't include the legendary Quantum Bigfoot. Those things sound awesome!!
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5:48 Was My Fav Omg Soo Soothing 🤤
Something has to be wrong when it starts reading data
hdd spin
ASMR
5:16 hey! You should be in my pc!
can you do a sound of a WD Blue 500GB drive pls
I use more HDD 5400 rpm because they do not heat up and it sounds quieter especially WD Purple
Slower access times tho
I have literally an 8 year old Seagate as an external for my PS4 (PS5 External storage soon)
Can we get the startup sounds of a NVME next? ;-)
MacBook Pro SSDs are the noisiest
Can you do another video with all of your hard drives that you’ve collected?
Not a bad idea. I'll start getting the drives organized and get some new recordings started :)
Techstuff091 A follow up to this would be nice! Also, I was your 10th subscriber :).
@@techstuff0918 any updates on progress?
What is the sound at 1:43 to 1:45??
These recordings completely destroy my phone. I’ve also got that 1tb hitachi and your recording sounds light years better!
6:11 I have a Seagate 320GB HDD that sounds like that startup
Most of the pre-F3 spinups sound awesome. If only the drives then had more longevity.
@@TheDragonFire123 I think mine is dated back in 2012 or an earlier date. It still works cause the original computer it was in wasn't used that much.
@@HuskyShields Seagates have a bit of an esoteric date code. Likely yours was made around the very end of the pre-F3 era.
HDD is just an old technology, that every HDD is very affordable.
0:43 and 3:59 sound like a jet engine starting up.
4:44
Was kinda scared of the noises it made when I first booted my pc but knowing it's normal took a weight off my shoulders
what is the sound at 0:09?
and is that normal?
It’s just part of the initialization process
SA reads and seek test.
It’s normal
is there a way to prevent these sounds?
If you get an SSD, then they are gone. And so is your storage space. And money. You can also use foam on the sides of the drive and HP’s rubber screws.
The simple, effective and expensive answer is to get an SSD. Why would you want to though, I don't know, since the sound is half the fun.
2.5" drives are much quieter than 3.5"s, at the expensive of some extra cost and possible SMR (look for WD5000LPCX, Toshiba MQ01ABF050/HDWK105 or Toshiba MQ01ABD100/HDWJ110 for non-SMRs).
Thank you all. I pulled an ssd out of an old laptop. They were from my uncle. 2 ssd with 500 gb in each
@@EverNight76 Frankly I do enjoy the HDD noise, but I do recognise that not everyone does. Since you said you wanted to "prevent these sounds", the only way to completely do so is to get a drive that is completely devoid of moving parts, aka an SSD.
I do operate plenty of HDDs with equally epic spin up sounds though.
Who is watching this in 2022?
3:58 HDD in my pc Compaq Presario
What about my Westren Digital Blue 1TB SSD(I think) that I use in my acer desktop.
Sounds quiet with some little noises.
You're joking, right?
Taylor Macken uhhhh
I haven't heard a hdd start up in a long time, I have all SSD storage rn. Waiting for the SMR scandal to blow off before I buy a HDD.
Duh Doy im pretty sure it already did at this point...
ProPane865
My comment was 2 months old.
3:58 до каких оборотов разгоняется?
7200RPM
Porque hacia tanto quilombo el hitachi jjajjajaj 40000rpm (?
No, 7200rpm
@@Logan-mp3wi its a joke
Es una belleza pero es demasiado pesado y muy sensible a las vibraciones,tengo uno de 500gb que por no poner dos tornillos tiene 23 sectores dañados,por suerte la cifra no ha subido desde 2015 el resto está practicamente perfecto
I hate that humm bassy sound... UGH
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