Jet Engine in Retro Computer. Old MFM Hard Disk Spin Up Compilation & Benchmark Results
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Published 2020-02-09
Following MFM Hard Disk are shown in this video:
Quantum Q540
Miniscribe 3425
NEC D5126
Fujitsu M2243AS2
Magnetic Pheripherals 94205-053
Seagate ST-251 MLC1
NED D5146H
IBM Type 2
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All Comments (21)
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Now I know where hollywood gets all its "futuristic" background noises.
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Imagine you iPhone making such a Noise AND moving along the Table on Boot
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I don't understand the internet's fascination with ASMR - but THIS is just fantastic to my ears!
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I can't believe I actually sat through 6:08 minutes of hard drive sounds... on Christmas Eve! lol.
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My friends: what r u listening to? Me: Its complicated
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I have to switch scales in my head when looking at old computer hardware 2020: "705kb/s, pathetic" 1986: 700,000 bytes a second! Incredible!
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Some of the hard drives sound like a World War II air raid siren.
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Imagine 1000 of these in a server center.. God what a noise xD
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2:19 VTEC kicked in yo!
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The IBM scared the hell out of me, thought the heads were crashing on the plates!
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Back in the late 90's I had a work computer with an extremely loud hard drive. I thought it sounded like a loud dishwasher. When we were working all night on a project and I was running long simulations, I would set my cot up in my office and go to sleep. I would automatically wake up when,the simulation completed 1 to 2 hours later because it suddenly got quite. So I would check my results , start the next SIM and go back to sleep.. Worked great and I, could at at least function the next day..
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The cure for anyone whining about coil whine: put one of these inside your PC and there you go ... No more audible coil whine !
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Could listen to this all day. So many of these brought back memories!
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I worked as a computer technician in the late 80s, through the mid 90s. These sounds really bring back memories. I could recognize that ST251 sound anywhere.
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So cool with the stepper just sitting on the side with an optical encoder for position. "do not rotate" lol! super nostalgic. Thank you.
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That metallic plink sound from the IBM one after initialization was just pure gold
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Being only 17, I never really had a chance to experience these retro HDD's but damn, the spin ups are certainly distracting
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I'd have to give it to the Miniscribe drive, especially the way it sounds during the benchmark. God I love that sound!! I once owned a very tall IBM PS/2 tower, model 80 IIRC, and it had TWO massive 40MB MFM HDD's. That machine's startup sound was just awesome!!
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1:27 sounds like a car revving up 😂
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5:15 it sounds like it could be recorded at the Isle of Man TT