It's interesting how on old drives that had really slow spinups you can hear the separate initial pulses to the coils.
@McVaio6 ай бұрын
I love how you're making sure to let viewers know that you're parking the heads.
@tofu1394 Жыл бұрын
I may not be in the era of hard drives and their noisy ancestor the modem, but I love the odd sounds of computing. The whirrs, the grinding static, the beep boops; melodies to my auditory sensors.
@anatoliyatrilvik76609 ай бұрын
Exactly. I understand SCSI2SD, or CF to IDE adapters, etc are really important, but it isn't the same without the loud bangs of the HDDs. Another reason I don't like modern hard drives, and prefer SSDs. If it doesnt make a goofy sound like a hamster trying his best to power a PC, then I'd rather take the speed.
@SmartBonnieYT Жыл бұрын
The ultimate hard drive collection video on KZbin. Love the collection!
@Nathan15038 Жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes the classic school/library computer lab loud boot up noise with that spinning and crackling that would sometimes maybe even send shock down your spine. Not gonna lie. I kind of miss old, loud hard drive you could definitely tell they’re turning on. They always sound like they’re broken, but they’re not 😂
@CRR__ Жыл бұрын
things in my life have been pretty rough as of late, but these videos calm me down for some reason thank you Arnold for posting videos of these awesome drives!
@bigbluebananabread Жыл бұрын
Such an amazing collection! Your vast array of old Seagate's is seriously incredible.
@keres993 Жыл бұрын
I'll never buy Seagate again after they sold millions of their drives to the CCP.
@alexx1986-h3c Жыл бұрын
@@keres993 good luck finding ANY company that hasn't sold drives to the CCP :)
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
When I started growing the collection in 2021 it was after seeing GeeniDee's early seagate and WD video. Because of the opened ST3491A I was already fond of the seagates with that design and decided I would try to get as many different models of the "boat shape" seagates as I could. The ones I don’t have yet are the ST1057A, ST3057A, ST3123A and ST3291A, but I will probably never get them, they seem to be unobtainium, some of these don’t even have a single picture of them on google. As for the other seagates, some were cheap and others were in the lots I got. Seems like they were fairly common
@Kali_Krause Жыл бұрын
@@keres993 When was that?!
@Dan-TechAndMusic Жыл бұрын
@@Kali_Krause They sold hard drives to Huawei between 2020 and 2021 despite the US sanctions.
@zigforjustice9 ай бұрын
16:04 - We had that drive on our Gateway 2000 PC. Good memories
@danielthorpe4750 Жыл бұрын
I remember so many of these beauties! I could always tell what drive a PC had by the sound. Those were the days!
@randomyt666 Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for a new HDD vid. Thanks dude
@woaln5213 Жыл бұрын
Strange feeling hearing some of them again. Sounds so often heard, etched in my memory
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
Yep, anyone who used computers in the 80s/90s will remember the sounds of hard drives. It is part of the reason why I don't really get people that are putting solid state storage in their retro machines when the sound of the hard drive is part of the experience in my opinon.
@woaln5213 Жыл бұрын
@@arnlol guess let's wait for an emulator. Still ssd but also makes sounds and works slow 😄
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
@@woaln5213 I doubt there would be enough demand for someone to actually do something like this, I assume it wouldn't be easy to make, but yeah it would be nice for those who doesn't want to use actual drives over reliability concerns but are liking the sounds
@Kali_Krause Жыл бұрын
@@woaln5213 Believe it or not, someone already has made a hard drive emulator! It's called the HDD Clicker
@DrFreeeman Жыл бұрын
@@woaln5213 That's like how some electric cars play engine sounds. Personally I dislike something that is fake and pretending to be something else.
@danielthorpe4750 Жыл бұрын
Always loved the Maxtor PCB weird names and sometimes logos!
@zigforjustice9 ай бұрын
17:22 - Had one of those too. Always took forever to spin down, sounded amazing.
@senditall15210 ай бұрын
That must have taken a lot of effort. Thank you
@MyComputerStudios_ Жыл бұрын
Now, do a video about your WD Raptor. Very interesting modern drive imo
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
I will consider it, but I need to finish the ones from the last "lot" video I made in which I said I would make videos of them, they already got delayed quite a bit by this collection video taking a lot of time to make
@MyComputerStudios_ Жыл бұрын
@@arnlol So you need to to the videos about the Quantum Fireball and the ST3391A in that lot.
@titotech Жыл бұрын
6:47 i love this one
@gennidee Жыл бұрын
Dude you're mad ... and you got them in a short period of time, too. Collection tuned out pretty nice ^^
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
Well I have been into hard drive sounds since so long, but I just was listening to them on youtube until I decided to grow the collection in 2021. No regrets! I wish I had better luck though, drives with bad sectors or that arrive dead and sellers shipping with no protection is common sadly.
@gennidee Жыл бұрын
@@arnlol That's why I rarely buy drives nowadays.Too expensive and too faulty. I think for now my collection is finished. Not that I have all models I wanted ...
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
@@gennidee Yeah that's certainly a gamble that you have to take and finding good deals can be complicated, also the lower priced lots often end up poorly packaged as well. That's a hobby where you have to accept you'll have some loss when you get into it, and it's only going to get worse as time goes by. Bummer that you couldn't get all the models you wanted, but really not too surprizing at this point
@danielthorpe4750 Жыл бұрын
I have a load of these in boxes somewhere, should see if they are still functional.
@Homie_24 ай бұрын
man how do i love old hdd,s seeks and even better old floppy drives seeking amn the most beautiful music to my ears
@technicalsos1109 Жыл бұрын
Never thought i could see hard drive library in book shelf's 👍
@TechProYoutube8 ай бұрын
42:20 still have the 320gb version from 2005 in my modern gaming pc
@ashleysuvs5187 Жыл бұрын
This is gonna become the new sorting algorithm video, this is amazing
@TheRedYTPer Жыл бұрын
very nice collection of drives, sounds good
@Alexis_-cj2nx Жыл бұрын
Do I know you?
@TheRedYTPer Жыл бұрын
@@Alexis_-cj2nx how the frick did you get here, alexis12
@xmunki138910 ай бұрын
Nice, this was a joy to watch. I got a question. For how long were these drives unpowered before you got them running for this video? I know I have a drive somewhere in my house (with quite important data) that I haven't powered on for around 7-8 years, and I'm utterly paranoid that it won't work when I finally find it and try to use it. Should I be worried about this?
@kernel_data_inpage_error10 ай бұрын
I salvaged one seagate 1 TB SATA hdd from a retired office PC, they restored it using the built in recovery partition and gave it to me, in Hard Disk Sentinel shows as bad, 76 reallocated sectors and 30 days estimated lifetime remaining. Having a modern PC I set the UEFI to BIOS and my controllers to IDE mode so I can use MHDDl, in the first run it showed a >500ms block and a second run nothing abnormal, but I bumped the Caps Lock key and i discovered that toggling it it will cause a delay marking whatever sector it is reading as red l, so I guess hardware interrupts interfere with the scan, HDsentinel ran read/writes tests without any new reallocation or significant delay but is SMART which is concerning me, I didnt save any important data to it, but is running fine, it has a power on time of 1034 days, no unusual noises or any concerning issues. i boot from an SSD so said drive spends most of the time spun down when im not using my virtual machines
@fisqual2 ай бұрын
Those maxtor atlas drives are crazy. I never heard them before.
@TheDiskMaster Жыл бұрын
Wow, the sound that WD-384R makes almost drives me to buy one
@Mathmos25211 ай бұрын
35:25 that sounds like the seektest that modern seagates do
@TheRealVM5M7 ай бұрын
This channel is criminally underrated.
@arnlol7 ай бұрын
Do you really think so? After all, there can only be so many people interested by the very niche thing that is old hard drive sounds. I feel like getting a few hundred, or even a few thousands views sometimes isn’t that bad considering the subject :)
@Geforcefly Жыл бұрын
Great hard drive collection you got there!
@min_nari3 ай бұрын
i listened this to sleep, thanks
@Ascari92446 ай бұрын
I have a "sleeper build" with my coolermaster wavemaster case. I still have the original fans in it making a whole lotta noise. Thanks to your amazing nostalgic video I'm going to put a hard drive in it now😂
@one_step_sideways5 ай бұрын
Just put some Noctuas in there
@Ascari92445 ай бұрын
@@one_step_sideways funny enough I did 👍
@user-wp6od8dw2f Жыл бұрын
seagate medalist 😍
@EvanPang-w4i5 ай бұрын
0:08 sounds like a car engine doing a rev up!
@gamagama69 Жыл бұрын
i have a similar HGST 4tb. can feel it in my feet when its doing something
@X150t11 ай бұрын
Went through 3 of them within a year a or two. Absolute garbage drives
@mikixyz123 Жыл бұрын
finally, a full update!
@987computer11 ай бұрын
Hard to believe that some old drives from around 25-30+ years ago still work today (maybe even more so at the time of upload if you're reading this months, if not years from then). We sure have come a long way in terms of data storage room.
@Caleb-fv5fp10 ай бұрын
Do you ever sell your drives? I am looking for an ide quantum fireball st 6.4gb for my dos and windows 95 gaming pc.
@jamiejump1newchannel1906 ай бұрын
You should add drive RPMs to the info card that pops up at the start of each drive
@CallumJamesNevin Жыл бұрын
this was so inspirational 😎😎
@TomaszCzarnecki-oh2hv5 ай бұрын
1:45 good sound
@rabootpedia96647 ай бұрын
The Miniscribe 3425 sounds like it’s about to launch itself into space.
@danielthorpe4750 Жыл бұрын
I still have 2x 75GB 75GXPs which still work.
@thegeforce662527 күн бұрын
how many bad sectors?
@uc8tv Жыл бұрын
I noticed several drives missing. Did any more die? I watched all of this and it was amazing!
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
This is all the drives I currently have, so if there was drives in the video from two years ago that are not in this one, then yes it means that they have died.
@phmittens_fan16678 ай бұрын
This is my dream
@arnlol8 ай бұрын
What is a dream, having a big collection of hard drives like this? If you want, you can still make it not a dream, it'll take some time and money but it's possible. In early 2021 when I really started I only had a few drives, and now I'm slowly but surely getting close to 300 drives...
@danielthorpe4750 Жыл бұрын
Remember the Quantum LCT drives with the Lucent motor controller chip which would burn out.... and of course the Fujitsu MPG series with the defective Cirrus chip which caused failure en mass
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
On Wikipedia it is said that it is the LCT 10 that has a chip that could burn out on the PCB, the one I have seems to be working perfectly and I hope it will stay this way. Didn't know that Fujitsu had that kind of reliability issues though
@getlingganyooger Жыл бұрын
good 👍👏
@eduardogarcia44523 ай бұрын
hi man.... do you dispose of this recording files anywhere? i'm interested in create a library of these sounds!
@AustrianDeathMachine94 ай бұрын
we need a biggest to smallest drive comparison!
@ddannyable4 ай бұрын
Nice video. Even nicer if you can add timestamp for each drive.
@gargolgaming81019 ай бұрын
40:30 I have the 200GB model of this HDD. I'm pretty sure it's dead, i don't have any PCs that can read it.
@user-wp6od8dw2f Жыл бұрын
i have the seagate medalist st32132a. this year it suddently stopped working😔😔😔
@tMilove4 ай бұрын
39:13 this is the hard drive i have on my Philips DVD recorder from 2005
@Gamersoft1124Pro2 ай бұрын
I have only 83 Hard Drives from SATA to IDE 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch
@timofej1344 Жыл бұрын
Круто)
@theplayer1231210 ай бұрын
14:18 damn what happened to that drive?
@lesconseiles98787 ай бұрын
26:55 ❤
@jamiejump1newchannel1906 ай бұрын
Question is, would you trust your data on any of these? (Working healthy drives of course)
@SockyNoob9 ай бұрын
Some of them sound like air raid sirens or car engines lol.
@lillofrost20108 ай бұрын
Hdds are my worst fear after mine corrupted and its taking like a month to get the data back
@arnlol7 ай бұрын
Yeah hard drives, old or new, with little or a lot of usage can fail. that's why you should have a copy of your data on multiple devices to reduce the risk of loosing things. SSDs can also fail, and it sometimes really isn't predictable
@lillofrost20107 ай бұрын
@@arnlol yeah, btw good news, i finnaly hot the data back, now im gonna copy it on a brand new sandisk 256gb micro sd
@Denisab20018 ай бұрын
Just full format the we red 4tb and there won’t be any pending sectors
@arnlol8 ай бұрын
I did try to write over them but it did not work, they would go away then any try to read made them come back. Since that video the drive got way worse, with many many bad sectors, so I removed it from service.
@SilvercattoOsom6 ай бұрын
How much, erm... "homework" is in all of those drives?
@Stay_alert8 ай бұрын
do another!
@Nathan15038 Жыл бұрын
I mean, let’s be honest here no one really expects a like 40-year-old drive to be still running and healthy and not fail from the internal already a.k.a. the first drive you showed us
@McVaio6 ай бұрын
I have a few working 10 MB hard drives from 1984.
@tMilove4 ай бұрын
But are they containing OS?
@arnlol4 ай бұрын
Some do, some are empty.
@alexx1986-h3c Жыл бұрын
38:14 Put electric tape around the edges of the cover, or it will die from dust. the original silver tape acts as the seal so dust does not get in.
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
There's some tape there, it is clear tape, you can see the light reflecting on it. With nothing it certainly wouldn't last very long at all that's for sure (you would hear a really loud air noise as well). It's kind of a miracle that this drive even works at all
@alexx1986-h3c Жыл бұрын
@@arnlol Oh yeah, sorry, didn't see that. yeah sure is a miracle that its still alive.
@DrFreeeman Жыл бұрын
Are you sure there isn't a seal under the lid? I disassembled one of these slimline Maxtors about 11 or so years ago but I can't remember.
@iSnarkTV Жыл бұрын
500gb IDE HDD 😮😮
@arnlol Жыл бұрын
Yep, and largest capacity drive that Maxtor ever made before being taken over by Seagate. It is not the largest IDE drive though, as Seagate actually made 750GB models but they seem to be quite rare. VWestlife made a video 7 years ago talking about said 750GB IDE Seagate
@iSnarkTV Жыл бұрын
@@arnlol i know VWestlife and i didn't seen his video , i will watch after finishing the saison 12 of south park
@precisionxt9 ай бұрын
@@arnloli stumbled across a 750gb seagate IDE drive a few years ago and never bothered to check it out yet. I guess i can dig it out sometime and do a spinup/spindown or mini review of it.