Hard drive collection- spin up & down of 103 drives, 40MB-3TB, 1991-2014, ASMR sounds

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Publicado 2024-07-15
This is my full collection of hard drives, 103 in total, spinning up and down. First are the working ones, then the broken ones are at the end. They are arranged in order of capacity, and therefore rough chronological order due to increasing areal density. They are mainly vintage(I find them more interesting), but there's a few modern drives later on. This video was a lot of work. Apologies in advance if I made a mistake, it was a lot of data to keep track of. I hope you enjoy listening to the soothing sounds of these hard drives(Except for maybe the few with extremely loud bearings). Chapters with timestamps are below.

Chapters:
Introduction: 00:03
Working drives:
Early 90's(40MB-180MB): 00:20
Mid 90's(180MB-1300MB): 03:26
Late 90's(1300MB-7GB): 08:25
Early 00's(7GB-80GB): 14:12
Mid 00s & onwards(80GB+): 18:16
Broken drives: (Same capacities as above)
Early 90's (Broken): 23:31
Mid 90's (Broken): 24:46
Late 90's (Broken): 26:46
Early 00's (Broken): 29:11
No broken over 80GB :)

Recording setup:
Drives are placed on left palmrest of 2021 14" MacBook Pro, then powered on and recorded with Audacity. There is a little background noise in some of the recordings, but decent audio quality I would say.

If you have a suggestion, or notice an error, please comment down below!
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Thanks for watching!

Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @antequated.archive
    Corrections: -19:27 Interface is SATA, not IDE -20:56 Interface is SATA, not IDE -21:56 Model number is actually ST3750330SV, not the one listed -27:07 DOM should be late 90's Updates: The MK0200MAT at 24:47 is now working after the rubber bumper was taped over.(albeit with a head crash) I just uploaded the inside view as a Short.
  • @youdonegoofed
    Our first family PC had a Quantum Fireball ST in it. Hearing that spin up sound was very nostalgic, thanks for the upload
  • @douro20
    The drive labeled FWB was probably a branded upgrade drive. The company sold high-end RAID enclosures under the name "Sledgehammer".
  • @arnlol
    That's a nice collection you've got there! Most of us don't have many early laptop drives, but you have quite a few, nice! As for the bad drives, the Toshibas apparently have a rubber bumper in them too that's why they are getting stuck. Any reason for not using the PCB of the 280 that spins and put it on the other one? (Maybe you've tried that before and it still didn't work I guess?)
  • @reardoor
    Wow. These hard drives really make for some cool sound effects. It reminds me of 2009~ I had an old xp computer. Super cool
  • @johnjunior5421
    And the Quantum fireball ST has a very funny sound effect, I used to have a WD caviar 2340 but unfortunately I don't have it anymore, it was the first hard drive with my first computer in 1994 with Win 3.1
  • @PotatoPCGamerz
    i love the sound of the ST351A/X because it sounds pretty interesting. the toshiba drives are a bit uninteresting. the 3 platter WDC31200 is pretty interesting though, i think its rare. the samsung voyager drives have the crazy seektest that also sounds interesting too lol
  • @fleshwound8875
    OOooooooooooh man.... gigitty... the sound... the clicks.... i just got teleported to the 80s and 90s
  • @user-kv5bf8be4f
    9:11 this bad boy is sitting in my collection of mid 2000 to mid 2020’s drives…
  • @XLGaming
    that second Caviar 22400 doesn't have a strange seektest, some 00LA drives just sound like that. 1997 WDs have a lot of variation in the sound they make.
  • @douro20
    I would have let the 80GB DiamondMax Plus 9 go through its extended seek test. Many of the DiamondMax Plus drives will do this.
  • @johnjunior5421
    Quantum fireball st is a pretty good hard drive that can last for years, I still have two of them, 5.1 and 8.4 GB with Win 98 and ME, I also have the WD caviar 2850 red which is one of the best WD drives over the years and it really has a very funny sound effect, I think everyone liked the caviar 2850! if someone like me has it, let them know that they are very lucky!!!
  • @KliaTech
    Good collection!!! 13:18 I really like the caviar 36400, it's a pity that it is in very bad condition.
  • @NSHG
    21:56 A slight correction - the SV35.3's model is ST3750330SV, not the one you listed. The ST31000340AS corresponds to a standard Barracuda/Barracuda ES.2 1TB drive. I happen to know this since I have two ST31000340NS, which are based from the AS versions.
  • @RichardBrady-nz1gv
    The drives at 19:27 and 20:56 are listed as IDE when the labels state SATA and the controller board for both drives definitely have a SATA connector. Minor nitpick in the grand scheme of things given how many you tested
  • @MrVidification
    Disappointed. I was ready to hear hundreds of drives spin up and down simultaneously