8 Hours of defrag | hard disk defragmentation ASMR | Hard Disk Sound Effect | HDD sounds

8 Hours of defrag | hard disk defragmentation ASMR | Hard Disk Sound Effect | HDD sounds. Here is a video of a hard disk being defragged for 8 hours over and over again ;)
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Experience the soothing sounds of technology with our latest video featuring defrag and defragmentation. Dive into the world of computer maintenance as we explore the mesmerizing process of disk defragmentation.
Indulge in the calming ambiance of asmr as you listen to the rhythmic hum of hard drive sounds and hdd noise. Let the gentle whirring of a hard drive lull you into a state of relaxation, perfect for unwinding after a long day.
Discover the benefits of defragging hard drive with our comprehensive guide to defragmentation of hard disk. Learn about the importance of defragmenting your computer and how it can improve the performance of your system.
Join us on this immersive journey into the world of technology and let the soothing sounds of defrag hard drive and disk defrag transport you to a state of tranquility. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or simply seeking a moment of peace, our collection of hard drive sounds asmr promises to captivate and delight.
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#8hoursof #defrag #defragmentation

[@8HoursOf]

Hi everyone! A new year and a brand new video! Here's 8 hours of a hard disk being defragged over and over again :) I hope you find some use for it and I will see you very soon!

[@maxwelldomnic9116]

I am having this sound from my hard disk now wat should i do..and is it automatically defragmenting my disk? Whenever i turn on, this sound comes...

[@jw1ck]

@@maxwelldomnic9116 it’s your drive being written to. Sometimes when idle, your computer still has background processes that require the disk to be written to. The reason this video is defragging a disk is because it constantly rearranging the data on the disk and makes that awesome noise, making it consistent rather than the occasional scratching sound you hear at home.

[@danruscoe]

I play this in the background because SSDs have no personality.

[@LordSandwichII]

Hard drives are like the pc equivalent of a Swiss watch - impractical, inefficient, and outdated, but also marvels of engineering.

[@cozzy124]

@@LordSandwichII you're goddamn right.

[@WolfyRed]

69 likes nice

[@badpiggies988]

An SSD is like an electric car: Faster, but also too quiet

[@44interVentionTV]

😂👍

[@natanaelrodriguez9580]

Say what you want but the sound of a hard disk making yoir whole case vibrate is one of the most soothing sounds in the world

[@mypostyart8989]

Most definitely. And also Radiation Storms in the Wasteland of Fallout 4.

[@thegeforce6625]

I try my best to get rid of it, it drives me insane.

[@botsareeverywhere]

My therapist talked with me about how some forms of therapy should work, basically saying when you have a traumatic event your brain doesn’t necessarily store that information in the correct place at that time due to anxiety etc… and that therapy can help reorganize those traumatic memories and events and put them where they’re supposed to go. My old techy brain immediately thought of it as defragmenting a HDD. This is actually very therapeutic, as if I’m watching all those horrible memories get moved to a proper place in my brain instead of being scattered around randomly. Thanks for the video 👍

[@UnethicalHeadspace]

So, by watching a hard drive sort shit, your brain sorts shit as well?

[@cozzy124]

well hey we humans tend to copy behaviour of others so its not entirely off the chart of possibility

[@MissIdolize]

Lol, 6 years old and folks are still watching and liking this video! Now doesn't that tell us something?! Ah, the memories! When I got my first pc in 1999, I was fascinated by disk defrag. So much so, I would actually sit for ages watching it happen. It was mesmerizing! There was something so satisfying & calming about all the wee cubes being tidied up, organized and put in place while others were removed. Even the sound felt goooood, as it does now! It felt like me mind was also being defragged at the same time! Heck, here I am doing it again! And btw, it is not a 'getting old' thing. I know this coz I was younger back then. For me it was like free mental therapy, like watching an aquarium of beautiful fishes. Ok, maybe not quite as nice - but defrag did seem to help chill out me brain! Maybe that's what society needs right now, specially the younger ones - a good, hearty, regular defrag! Am I odd? Please tell me I'm not alone in feeling this way? (Ahem) If I am, please disregard this comment... 😳

[@8HoursOf]

I can totally relate to you comment. I used to do the same :)

[@beeman9229]

this comment is cool i like it

[@cozzy124]

i just cant hear my hdd through my headphones i guess lol

[@ace_971]

brings me back to long nights of reinstallation of windows and hearing the disk working while I'd just fight against sleepiness. Would wake up just to click on next a few times and again wait throughout the night so I could finally get that damn Windows 98 SE working again and reinstall.... Age of empires 2 !

[@joshspotter7373]

are you me? this could have been written by me😯 and aoe2 on a hot june summer night with a bottle full of ice tea

[@energymc22]

I even remember my Win98 product key off heart..... Oh so many crashes & reinstalls

[@DoporaBHe6o]

Finally ASMR I was looking for. So many memories. Thank you.

[@8HoursOf]

I'm glad you like it :)

[@harrystanding3186]

This is really good. The fan noise is very soothing against the contrast of the whirring of the disk, as it grinds away. If something is intensely busy with its own problems and you are powerless to help out, it gives you the selfless opportunity to relax and let the hours slip away. Thanks!

[@IWasAPepper]

I’m not sure why I like this as much as I do.

[@powercage]

I wish current versions of Windows still has a visual representation of the defragging process.

[@ryzenryne8747]

@@powercage it's interesting to watch as the hours go by.

[@alextimossi7444]

Because you were born in the right generation

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

Just turned it on and my reactive led lighting is going off reminding me of the HDD activity light and it gave my whole body goosebumps

[@pauley7943]

Thad your such a nerd. I love it haha

[@TheLostAndNotFound]

Ahhhh takes me back to the year 2003 with the old Windows XP tower and bulky monitor...

[@wisico640]

If you want that feeling back, buy a WD Black 😂👌

[@elektronikcuptournament]

In Poland we don't say bulky monitor, we say monitor with ass.

[@digimikeh]

1992 here,,

[@badpiggies988]

Reminds me of the late 2000s and early 2010s, when my family had a floortop Dell potato build (xp and later 7), infested with daddy longlegs spiders and running off a super-loud (and super-slow) Western Digital internal drive that would later sadly fail before we could back it up or upgrade the machine to 10 (my parents, experienced in Windows due to having worked at Microsoft, knew the score and skipped 8 like they did Vista). The younger me once snuck downstairs at 5 AM on a weekend day to play on it, its hard drive spinning up was so loud it woke up my parents who were sleeping in a room down the hall. I was grounded from it for a week, and told not to use it before 6 in the morning.

[@TheLostAndNotFound]

@@wisico640 Wait what?? 😅 I actually have a WD Black for my PS5 but I definitely don't hear these noises coming from it.

[@chrike01]

This made me buy SSD :p

[@8HoursOf]

Hah yep. I kind of miss defragging sometimes though. It felt good to see all the blocks turn blue for some reason :)

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

yeah i rock ssds now (not in my retro pc screw all the compact flash crap) but you just can't beat the sound its incredible or maybe it just is for us nostalgic old nerds lol

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

@Qimodis yeah like one from the 90s I restored it and it runs DOS and windows 98 big crt monitor

[@bakedandsteaked]

@@johnconnorstopskynet that sounds fun

[@StaszekAlcatraz]

I think you should leave the room, the Geiger counter doesn't sound good.

[@trexmike222]

XD

[@TheRatLiker]

funniest shit i've ever seen

[@MykytaMinich]

Finally, some real quality content I've been looking for.

[@8HoursOf]

Hah, I'm glad you found your way over here :)

[@RandallsRestRelaxation]

This is awesome! Excellent Idea. Thank you for taking the time to record this.

[@Temporal_Flux]

Hey, my computer is still running slow, WTF! ...LOL.

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

Well I fav 3 vids today, 1 hour of keygen music, 4 hours of roland sound canvas sc55 midi music and now 8 hours of disk defrag i think i prob the biggest nerd ever.

[@craigbratty5453]

Wow who would have known that this would be relaxing. I didnt until i lasted about 15 mins and started nodding off. 👍 👍

[@8HoursOf]

Awesome! I'm glad it works :)

[@adamt4417]

Not even 10 seconds in when I realized that this channel was nice long recordings of unique ASMR sounds you had a sub. What a great channel!

[@ArchonKain]

Kind of got hyped when it was almost all done fragmented, then sad when it reset. Either way, I love this!

[@pauliuspaskevicius6600]

This sort of ASMR i was looking for

[@splabbity]

I really appreciate that someone made this.

[@acejinwoo]

always a relaxing nostalgic pc noise

[@radioactium]

man this is so good. might just get an hdd again so I can hear this lol

[@caliber2410]

Amazing. Need that as a background of something.

[@Atlas-yh6vg]

This is so relaxing...

[@maxtornogood]

The background noise goes nicely with the hard drive chugging along! ^_^

[@notmdj316]

This will be the next sound to use in my game, I tried to record some IDE WD800 sounds but I goes wrong and very nostalgic, thanks!

[@iamlalapalooza]

wow, this takes me back!!

[@Dung30n]

Thank you so much for including the audio, wouldn't quite be the same on SSD (not to mention defrag on SSD is almost pointless). 10/10 oddly satisfied

[@ankhatheegyptiancatusru]

and if you do defrag an ssd you run the risk of failure or less life

[@oldschooldude8370]

That gigantic sector of freespace is baffling. I love the sound old platter drives make.

[@onclesamm]

I want a snowstorm in a datacenter

[@imZornderNudelholzGiselas]

or rain and thunder in a restaurant

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

kinda stressed me out when i hear it having a hard time trying to read, reminds me of desperately trying to salvage my 1996 pc in 1999 and praying to god I have enough good sectors left to install windows. Forgive me, I was but 13. Not going to lie, I sat and watched it write every single sector patiently and sometimes I still do watch progress bars and stuff like that for much longer than I should and I wonder if it harks back to the day when you really had to wait on computers to do their thing.

[@gynaecide4382]

So did you ever have enough good sectors to install Windows?

[@Gyro___Zeppeli]

amazing comment

[@MirrorMountain]

I especially like the part with the defragging sounds 🙏

[@igvmyslf1000ptss]

Ahh the sounds of windows 95/98

[@IOPhaser]

ah yeah old good times, being able to go to office , school, home having whole room warmed by computer, huge fan sound, and after 6 hours of defragmentation status defragmentation failed at 99.6%, or if it passed still FAT32 corrupted and all the people had times on this since all the people had windows 98, seeing win intro logo and intro sound was like wow what is this some new future alien advanced technology, compared to DOS

[@scaper8]

So many late nights to nothing but that sound or the sound of a hard drive whirring and the glow of a (CRT!) computer screen. Good times, goood tiiimes.

[@WolfyRed]

55 likes nice

[@thegeforce6625]

Don’t forget small whiney fans and worn motor bearings in the hard drives motor!

[@Zuwze]

Perfect

[@badpiggies988]

They should add an automated mini-speaker to ssds that plays pre-recorded hard drive sounds whenever the controller detects that you're saving a word document or loading a game save. Best of both worlds: the satisfying sounds of an hdd and the 30-second bootup of an sdd

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

There is a little device you can buy called a Hard Drive Clicker it plays little HDD sounds when you're using a SSD. Saw it on LGR's channel.

[@joshspotter7373]

😁😁😁😁

[@0Tidus0989]

Oooh God I miss this! XD

[@jag0937eb]

Love this

[@arise8078]

Pro tip while you're defragging your HDD (do not actually do this): shake your computer violently

[@Daar64]

I love this

[@riccardovallini1009]

bellissimo il suono

[@oooboo3249]

The Nostalgia of spinning rust

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

I wish there was a version with the Windows XP defragger diagram. That brings back some nostalgia.

[@HfjfysFhvf]

Computers have become increasingly cold and soulless machines over time. Floppy and HDDs have been replaced by soulless flash

[@savemeows]

Hard disk PURRS! VERY SOOTHING

[@krokodil191]

Lol :D this is some new level

[@rafaeldm3314]

I miss this sound so much

[@Darkom1972]

wow this HD had alot of bad sectors ^^

[@ferdirunge4510]

seriously? that was the pain of my computer childhood!

[@EagleBreasts]

Jesus... This throws me back to windows 95 era 😩

[@tsanguine]

need this for my brain

[@phiinblade2293]

My brain when someone asked me a question:

[@navi6463]

Sounds that kids born today will probably never hear.

[@hariranormal5584]

It's really beautiful honestly. I don't know why this just reminds me of my childhood in 2011, Hard disk sounds and some calm fan in the background

[@LordSandwichII]

I think hard drives will stick around for a while. Modern games take up an insane amount of space and HDDs still can't be beat on that front.

[@hariranormal5584]

Lord Sandwich Even in the Datacenter space; HDD's are still used for mass storage because it is the most economical overall. SSD has beaten HDD in even storage density. A 3.5" SSD today could go upto 100TB using QLC tech, and we aren't even using PLC which would do WAY more. HDD's are at 20TB per 3.5" honestly. If you want to pack the most amount of storage per a given "rack space unit" or so then SSD's actually win. HDD's are just only: cheap. SSD's beat them on almost everything Low power, high speeds, less rate of failure (people could argue with this acctually but eh), custom form factors (SSD's can actually be made into any "weird" form factor. 2.5, 3.5, m.2 is what we see today but just like these types you can even have a weird square box and have an "SSD" on that.)

[@annona718]

Nah. I am defragging my external hard drive rn.

[@domalen54]

its beautiful, if you could simulate what looking at a campfire would feel like if could could not show what a campfire looks like, show them this.

[@yanm8633]

Great reset could forbid people to do fire. So this could be all they have. Still, at this point, I doubt they could have that too ; fascist regimes loves erasing history.

[@Mchenrygames]

we were happy and didn't know it

[@sha0520]

Yaaasssss

[@energymc22]

Reminds me of my Quantum Atlas IV.... Extra loud edition

[@captainsweeney5964]

Never thought of this... my drive doesn't make this sound though...

[@LavenderJJ_secret]

Is it a HDD?

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

This sound like an old seagate 350 or 430 MB drive. They were notorious for spontaneously losing head tracking altogether and just started head banging non-stop. Talking 1995 here. Worked in a tech dept of a computer store.

[@hariranormal5584]

even modern 1TB HDD's sound beautifully calm. I just smack my head againt the laptop case to hear that, and would almost doze of to sleep. Replaced it with an SSD and god I miss that sound already :/

[@shaynmckeon7779]

I do miss the old sounds of a computer "thinking" I dont hear those anymore on the new computers. Even with a HDD installed along with NVME and SSD's. Is there a way to attach a small speaker in the motherboard somewhere that can let us hear the new style drives thinking? Would be cool but I doubt it would be feasibly; probably make them unstable or something.

[@jec_ecart]

I miss this windows 98 style Defrag.

[@Dead_Poets_13]

I really want to buy some of your 8 hours, do you sell them through anyone? Like Amazon Music?

[@JohanDorbeck]

At 5:55 I thought my Macbook, without fans and with SSD, powered down suddenly because the sound stopped

[@psychotronic_x]

Don’t remember my defrags sounding like a wind tunnel

[@thegeforce6625]

would be cool to hear this on a 10 or 15k rpm disk

[@G2004gaming]

I love booting my pc to hear the sound of my harddrive

[@Petez.]

Only if my ssd could make this noise...

[@Superduper666]

Dang, this is quiet and fast compared to what my computer did!

[@davidannett3322]

woooooow flashback!

[@davidannett3322]

I wonder how big that drive was lol

[@8HoursOf]

:D

[@fisqual]

Need a 10k drive doing the same thing.

[@perorin615]

upload the same video again but without the aeroplane fan in the background thx

[@annona718]

That’s the sound of the spinning HDD

[@britainselite]

My old hard disk that I forgot was even in my gaming pc at 3 am:

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

To think there are a bunch of people watching this video, not sure what they are looking at or hearing. Getting old 😂

[@troubledouble106]

what software did you use to defrag?

[@fragdude4450]

whats sad, is that some hard drives actually take 8hours to do.

[@ChristopherGray00]

only if you don't defragment your hard drive for about 2 years and use it daily.

[@annona718]

My external one is taking 20 hours. I haven’t defragmented it in 9 years and I use it for storing fansubs.

[@t0biascze644]

I have 2TB Seagate Barracuda, it took like 15 hours to defragment

[@warrpedd]

I like the part where you can hear the hard drive.

[@pixolotl39YT]

My Hard Drive does this sound all the time, when it's writing i always open Task Manager to see how much % of the Disk is using, it's a pure, relaxing "drr drrrrrr drrrrrr drrr". When i boot up my HP Prodesk, it does a silent _eeeeeeeeeeeeee_ . Im always happy my HDD is working properly, in the next 2 months i will check the Thermal Paste on the CPU, to keep it cool and nice. My Specs: (HP Prodesk 400 G7) - Intel Core i5-10500 3.10 Ghz, up to 4.5 Ghz with Intel Turbo Boost. - 1TB Hard Disk, planning to buy an SSD. - 8GB Single Channel RAM, planning to get Dual Channel 16GB. - No GPU, but im planning to get a Radeon RX 550X. - Hidden DVD-ROM (how do i open it there's no button) And for some reason SOMEONE unplugged my PC while Running, didn't let it shutdown properly and now takes a loooot to boot up. :/

[@jccact]

This is in the background while I play telehack

[@trophy-hunter4963]

What do you think about the Sounds of an seagate medalist 2132? (It is an HDD from 1997 or older) Technicaly Data: 4500 RPM 12,5 msec seek Up to 16,6MB/s Transfer rate

[@bahlulsotd2063]

that's normal for a new hardisk? or the hardisk have a trouble?

[@AnonymousNyanCat-qg6bb]

Box fans sound like this have been reused too many times. I bet KZbin had disabled monetization on this video. :P

[@Kevin_A]

Why am I watching this at 3 am

[@alextimossi7444]

I remember the day I switched to ssd... i was like... this makes no sound... how is that possible?

[@AlfiesFuntime]

What made me search up: Windows 10 auto updating something on my secondary drive

[@barryherbaut286]

Aspiez like this

[@gblargg]

Do it with the HDD outside the computer so there's no fan noise.

[@powershellaxp64]

That sounds like my computer trying to run Windows 10

[@sertyfox2425]

What the program used in video?

[@noelsherron]

The ending was really exciting. But it kind of lagged in the middle and I wasn’t sure what was going on. Disappointed there was no post credits scene.

[@itepk0522]

Whenever I click on something:

[@digimikeh]

my 40 mb Quantum Big Foot hard drive D:

[@PLEASESTOPGENERICNOOB]

8 Hours of is it gonna take so long to defrag the hard disk?

[@8HoursOf]

The drive is incredibly slow :)

[@PLEASESTOPGENERICNOOB]

@@8HoursOf Fuck this shit im out

[@maxwelldomnic9116]

I am having this sound from my hard disk now wat should i do..and is it automatically defragmenting my disk? Whenever i turn on, his sound comes...

[@annona718]

No. The sound is from the magnets moving and controlling the needles and arms of your HDD to access and write data onto the platters. They move more during defrag. It has to load data. More movement is often due to fragmentation though it would sound the same anyways.

[@shiloranxxer]

It happens to me even if i dont defrag. guess my hard drive has a hard time handling for example a cluster of small files adding up to... say 100 mb. but can easily handle a single 100 mb file. why is that?

[@supervitu64]

Welp, your HD sure is full of errors

[@Kai..1]

Hello

[@roflmagister5]

If only the animation actually matched the sound pattern.

[@Ruby_Mochii]

I want to hear my HDD so bad I ended up here. I couldn't hear my drive despite using maglev fans and zero rpm. I could hear something but its my pump and nothing else. Not sure what else could be making noises as the fans can be all turned off. I could be hearing the drive but no ticks...? There's activity.

[@mario8312]

ASMR for IT