Hard drive collection - Spin up/down of over 70 hard drives from 40MB to 4TB !

I made an updated video in April 2023, 189 drives now, check it here : • Spin up/down of 189 ha...
20 Minutes of hard drives spinning up and down. . The first 6 drives are opened ones, then the rest of the drives are sorted by capacity (The smaller capacity drives are earlier in the video).
Note : Some of the older drives need a controller to do their seektest. For those I plugged them in my Pentium III PC. I cut the recording to remove the waiting time for my motherboard to POST.

[@Ervytron]

1:28 I love this sound. Sounds like a music

[@deftrascal1626]

2:13 is my favorite 4 the same reason

[@Fogolol]

there's asmr then there's these beauties humming like angels

[@Radek__]

5:58 i love that "horn" sound, like a warning before engine start 🙂 I had that drive in my first PC 386dx 40MHz in 1993. 😍

[@kirbyyasha]

Yaknow. Before the clip even came I knew which HDD brand you were referring to and I agree with the horn sound. I loved it.

[@Venoter]

Polak?

[@ErikS-]

10:28 - Love this one! Sounds like a jet engine powering up!

[@mr.choice86]

Amazing how many different memories and feelings I get by just hearing these drives spin up or seek. 8:48 seeking of this drive takes me back to my childhood. Love this video!

[@cdos9186]

I’ve heard those early Samsung drives like the one at 4:00 were some of the most delicate drives ever, if you were rough with them in any sort of way like place them down hard, they would have damage occur. Never heard one of those, I really do love the sound it makes.

[@enterchannelname7568]

Got a bunch of these old drives (many were already dead), and can confirm that they are extremely sensitive.

[@cdos9186]

@@enterchannelname7568 Interesting! Can you make a video of them? What is the failure mode on them?

[@enterchannelname7568]

@@cdos9186 Unfortunately I don't have them anymore (sorry if I made it seem that way in the comment), but most of the drives suffered from heads clicking repeatedly and others had pretty bad scraping sounds. I'm not really an expert and didn't know too much about them. A family member owned a small internet provider in the late 90s and early 2000s. They didn't clean out a warehouse that had a bunch of old computers from their office until years after closing. It seems that they bought many of these drives for their PCs. Edit: yeah they still used pretty old hardware in some of their PCs. I remember the brand because I didn't know samsung made hard drives until then.

[@cdos9186]

​@@enterchannelname7568 That sucks because those Samsung drives are fairly rare now. Better yet I've never heard one fail but that sounds pretty bad. Would've been nice if you still had them to see the inside of one.

[@stepa22]

9:22 the HDD opening a bottle of wine: Oh, not again!

[@Techno-Universal]

The wine also corrupts and destroys more sectors every time! :)

[@mr.steven1923]

You can say what you want but the miniscribe 4:45 and the Maxtor 7850av 8:26 are the best bieutiful peaceful start up! And the seagate 2:12 !

[@hariranormal5584]

some sounds like jet engine startup's. really beautiful and nostalgic anyhow

[@Stay_alert]

4:45 Sounds like a go-kart

[@footballuniverse4768]

The first regular drive had a meow at the end

[@matthewsvideos8235]

Worst thing is Thai have had most of these drives at some point. I still have the early stepper 3.5 Seagate. Didn’t have the 5.25 Miniscribe.

[@rnicoles9355]

I like these HDDs

[@MyComputerStudios_]

16:13 One of my relative's old computer's hard disk sounded like this.

[@patrickbateman3490]

Oh yeah, the immortal Maxtor 7440AV :) Unfortunately most of the Maxtor that followed were of opostive quality :p Special mention to the bigfoot, with derouting no classic seek sequence.... And oh, luck boy, you've a CHAMP hdd :)

[@Fisjjj]

15:45 i have almost the same hard drive but with 26A at end instead 22A

[@Sad_Bandy]

5:15 is that miniscribe hard drive gay💀☠

[@RealEpikCartfrenYT]

Too many bad sectors

[@RedstoneMiner18]

1:41 i like how the drive is 1 WHOLE MEGABYTE larger than the previous 40mb drive

[@thegeforce6625]

There's something oddly calming about the Quantum Viking II 9.1GB (13:51) quitely spinning up and initalising.

[@mr.choice86]

Now I had to watch the whole video to find out which one..

[@carlwheezerofsouls3273]

@@mr.choice86 and ill have to do the same! can someone link a timestamp for this thing?!

[@mr.choice86]

@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 I dont remember but I liked the initializing of 8:48 even more

[@Choochinc]

19:43 The Seagate U5 was the hard drive I had in my first computer back in the 2000s. I had the 10GB model. The sound of that seek test is so nostalgic to me, I recognized it immediately despite looking away from the video.

[@toddb930]

Just think how many hard drive companies are left.

[@lonely.toaster]

Only three AFAIK. Seagate, WD, and Toshiba.

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

​@@lonely.toasterand samsung

[@XkQp]

​@@kernel_data_inpage_error Samsung is under seagate

[@Mathmos252]

@@kernel_data_inpage_error samsung makes ssd now. they dont make drives anymore

[@mr.bright684]

4:46 I will buy that hard drive! Fkng beautiful 😍❤️

[@ananas1006]

yeah for one photo

[@mikixyz123]

Good luck You would need it

[@Nintendo3D5]

0:07: Seagate ST-3491A 0:20: Quantum Fireball EX3.2 0:34: Maxtor 90651U2 0:43: Western Digital Protegé WD400 0:53: Seagate ST-340016A 1:05: Seagate ST-3160212ACE 1:24: Seagate ST-351A/X 1:37: Western Digital WD93044A 2:12: Seagate ST-157A 2:34: Seagate ST-157A "the loud" 2:56: Western Digital Caviar 280 3:13: Seagate ST-1102A 3:29: Seagate ST-3096A 3:43: Seagate ST-3120A 3:59: Samsung SHD-3062A 4:15: Seagate ST-1144A 4:33: Seagate ST-3145A 4:46: Miniscribe 3180S "The big one" 5:20: Seagate ST-3195A 5:34: Seagate ST-3243A 5:47: Seagate ST-3250A 5:59: Conner CP30254 6:15: Seagate ST-3290A "The strange" 6:29: Seagate ST-3290A 6:42: Seagate ST-3391A 6:54: Seagate ST-3491A (Closed) 7:08: Seagate ST-3491A "The damaged" 7:21: Maxtor 7540AV 7:36: Conner CFS541A 7:48: Conner CFS541A 8:00: Seagate ST-3660A "the loud* 8:13: Seagate ST-3850A 8:26: Maxtor 7850AV 8:41: Quantum Fireball 1080AT "The gigabyte era" 9:03: Seagate ST-31276A 9:18: Western Digital Caviar 21200 9:33: Seagate ST-31270A 9:53: JTS Champ C1300-2AF 10:11: Seagate ST-32122A 10:27: Quantum Bigfoot 2110AT 11:08: Seagate ST-32132A 11:21: IBM type DFHS S2W 11:44: Western Digital Caviar 22500 11:59: Maxtor 90320D2 12:10: Seagate ST-33210A 12:20: Quantum Fireball EX 4.2AT 12:36: Seagate ST-34321A 12:48: Seagate ST-34321A "Unusable" 13:00: Fujitsu MPD3043AT 13:09: Seagate ST-34311A 13:18: Seagate ST-34311A 13:27: Western Digital Caviar 64AA 13:33: Fujitsu MPD3064AT 13:44: Western Digital Caviar 84AA 13:51: Quantum Viking II 9.1 14:23: Samsung SV2011H 14:32: Maxtor 92049U3 14:42: Seagate ST-360012A 14:53: Maxtor 6Y060L0 15:03: Hitachi HDS722580VLAT20 15:13: Western Digital Caviar WD1200 15:33: Western Digital Caviar WD1200 15:45: Seagate ST-3120022A 16:00: Seagate ST-3160212ACE (Closed) 16:13: Seagate ST-3160212ACE 16:25: Western Digital WD1600AAJS 16:38: Seagate ST-3160815A 16:51: Western Digital WD2000 17:11: Western Digital WD2500JB 17:28: Western Digital WD5000AAKX 17:39: Western Digital WD1002FBYS 17:56: HGST HDS724040ALE640 18:28: HGST HDS724040ALE640 18:56: Bonus videos

[@RowanBird779]

Spinning platters covered in magnet dust is something that can never replicated, from the spinning, clicking, and odd gradual sector failure I also have a 1TB WD Caviar black, I never remembered what it sounded like (Was always masked by everything else, specially those stupid front case fans), failed a long time ago, still never found out what's wrong with it

[@razorkill8522]

Hi. nice collection. I have a question. what can cause bad sectors?

[@FanTV474]

too bad SSDs are taking over...

[@Venoter]

11:22 4:46 my Favorites Hard Disk

[@muhammadsyamsudinalie3111]

beautiful retro sound... i love them all

[@hobbified]

Got any 10K / 15K RPM drives?

[@VladAspida]

Interesting hobby buddy.😁

[@mima85]

That's the type of content the Internet is for, at least for us geeks/nerds :-D

[@Radek__]

4:47 it stats like a racing cars or F1

[@Deniska_tut]

4:47 sounds like honda civic

[@yourbigfan1777]

8:42 and thats where the 1GB disks history began!

[@Zeddify]

15:13 hard drive go æEeEeEe.

[@vinny142]

Nostalgia. Memories. Some nightmares, mostly a prelude to "C:> doom.exe"

[@ErikS-]

14:38 - Let's call the controllerboard "FISH'N M16"

[@uc8tv]

19:11 Seagate U4

[@Raveseeker]

Vintage Nerd ASMR. Open it up, be transported back to the heady days of Eternal September.

[@ki.russian7]

1 bytes 2 bytes 4 bytes 8 bytes 16 bytes 32.bytes 64 bytes 128 bytes 256 bytes 512 bytes 1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB 32GB 64GB 128GB 256GB 512GB 1TB 2TB 4TB 8TB 16TB 32TB 64TB

[@aleksandarlenhart2078]

1:28 that sg jammin

[@mikixyz123]

Fact Then there's that western Digital boi that beats seagate with 1 megabyte of more capacity

[@fra93ilgrande]

OMG I still have the Quantum Fireball 1GB 😂 has lots of bad sectors but still working and I could install Windows 95 again! 🤣

[@BimBims]

Gw punya 80 MB hdd 😂 Itu rasanya kayak 8 TB saat ini 😂

[@randomyt666]

That 6gb caviar drive has an almost identical seektest to the WD1600JS. It's so similar

[@soaebhasankhokon9521]

Very helpful video to Know the history of the old to new Hard drive (1990-2021).. thanks bro ❤️❤️

[@ryonbrand7885]

I put a WD Blue 4TB in my PC a while back, it makes a decently nice noise on startup, for a new hard drive, although I wish it was a bit louder.

[@precisionxt]

“Lo-fi sounds to seek to”

[@Calisota]

1:37 More bass than any Trap music... Did not expect that but also Im not disappointed

[@rlmedia_yt]

The drive at 0:53 is a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV.

[@Stay_alert]

11:20 By far the weirdest drive you've got. XD

[@Nintendo3D5]

For some reason I think it's really thicc

[@Nintendo3D5]

It looks really thicc

[@ezoteriktrakyali1]

1:28 He is thinking about something

[@voidsludge1254]

This is like a hearing an angelic choir to me

[@MyComputerStudios_]

4:00 this hdd was manufactured on 24th of May 1993

[@highwayautolife3155]

Вся жизнь перед глазами прошла...

[@ACompExp]

I've heard that most Western Digital caviar hard drives from 1997 and 1998 are quite unreliable, as Western Digital was having some financial issues and they thought of making the hard drives for cheaper. So the Western Digital 22500 you have is known to slow like this, and it might die in a while. But except for that, there are barely any reliability issues for most Western Digital hard drives pre 1997 and post 1998, if they are taken care of properly.

[@carlwheezerofsouls3273]

it seems like some of the most reliable hardrives are from either western digital, or seagate, at least when it comes to the more modern ones.

[@razzledev]

My 250GB WD drive has 31000 power on hours, still 0 failures or bad sectors.

[@jondixon9094]

Now this is something I’ve been looking for.

[@BluePikmin10422]

2:13 my dad had 2 of those running

[@TheRagingSound]

❤❤❤

[@OpenGL4.6]

9:20 Yes, failing heads.

[@XLGaming]

could also be a degrading platter. those Malaysia Western Digital drives are known for being pretty terrible in general, so it could be a combination of both!

[@OpenGL4.6]

@@XLGaming The Malaysia ones always ran too hot, resulting in head failures, PCB failures and media degradation.

[@garyceriotti850]

Thank you for showing the reverse side of these drives also! Fascinating !

[@mackjsm7105]

wow dude... this was a LOT of work.. ty

[@Techno-Universal]

4:46 This would be the hard drives that they were possibly using in the computers within the Wonders Of Life pavilion in EPCOT! :)

[@adinnugroho6544]

1:37 : It has some Bass Sound. I feel like listening Diesel Engine sound 😂

[@spontanvideok246]

Wooow. This amazing Video. Very wonderful Old HDD sounds my Childhood😍. I love spinning up and heads detected sounds.😍👌👍👍❤❤Please more more more video.

[@curiousnomadic]

Can't imagine the massive waste of money that went into all these.

[@arnlol]

It's just like any kind of hobby/collection. Is it worth it, probably not, do I enjoy messing with old drives and listening to their sounds? Yes I do, so I don't really care if it is not worth the money.

[@nicolabonazzi3305]

The foking noise of the quantum fireball keep me company for 10y

[@miketech1024]

This is music to me!

[@Null42x86]

Have you tried to do the backups of the drivers?

[@mikixyz123]

I think there isn't really nothing on there, bet most was formatted

[@razorkill8522]

Hi. nice collection. I have a question. what can cause bad sectors?

[@Mathmos252]

Hard drive sectors are planted with magnetic particles that flip when stimuled by the magnetic field of the heads, a bad Sector can be caused by old Age, phisical shock, too much use, boot Sector viruses, PBC issues and heat😊

[@Mathmos252]

And if you use your hard drive for very long periods at once , that can also cause bad sectors

[@wiher7472]

I have a hdd in my new pc bought about 7 months ago. It has also a all in one water cooler and this whole time i thought that the pump was faulty making this noise. Now that ive watched this vid im convinced to drop my hdd from a building. Thank you!

[@Lithuanian.patriot]

how do i open up the round seagate drive

[@arnlol]

I'm not sure what drive you mean, but on most drives there's one or multiple screws hidden under the labels. Most drives use T8 torx screws to hold the cover in place (but not always, and sometimes the screws under the labels are using a different size bit)

[@stef_catalin_22]

1:06

[@flozon5240]

15:13 i have that exact same hard drive

[@doomer37]

This is a very nice collection bro!

[@Stay_alert]

@doomer37 After seeing a couple of your videos including a hard drive collection video, I wanted to ask you how you use your SCSI drives. I can't seem to find anything anywhere. I have Serial attached SCSI (SAS), and 60-pin SCSI. (60-pin looks exactly like 80-pin, but smaller. It's also called Ultra-3 SCSI) If you were to be able to help me out, I need to get one for a hard drive collection video I'm gonna do.

[@doomer37]

@@Stay_alert Well firstly SAS is a completely different standard than SCSI. I don't have a controller for that. I do have an Adaptec 19160 SCSI card for PCI. So far it's been able to interface with every SCSI drive I own. You can even boot from it.

[@Stay_alert]

@@doomer37 Okay, where can I get one? Also, are you sure it's 60-pin?

[@doomer37]

@@Stay_alert There's no 60 pin, there is 68 pin though. it has a 50 and 68 connector, I use an adapter to use 80 pin SCSI. I'd recommend ebay.

[@Stay_alert]

@@doomer37 Okay. I know you said you don't have any of the other SCSI, but can you help me find something for that too? PS: Thanks for the advice. I'm kinda new to this stuff. ' '^

[@greensheen8759]

Interesting, I've got some of the 2013 era HGSTs too and I'd always waited 10 seconds after shutdown to pull them out of the dock. Now I know it's more like 15 seconds for them to spin down fully

[@arnlol]

Yeah those HGST take a long time to spin down, they have 5 platters in them

[@4dxl]

Some of these are gold, thanks for sharing

[@Stefan_38]

What are drive sectors?

[@arnlol]

I don't really know how to explain well but every drive is split in sectors that each hold 512 bytes of data (4KB on some modern drives) and all have an unique adress. It's used to be able to find where the data is on the drive, when you store a file the file system records the adress of the sectors that file uses to be able to find it again. When I'm mentionning bad sectors it means that some sectors on the drive are not able to store data properly anymore.

[@HikikomoriDev]

These reports have a lot of detail to them...

[@strikdevroblox9079]

Every hard drive sound is satisfyingly

[@getlingganyooger]

3:49 a floppy disk sound on background

[@Stay_alert]

I feel like it adds authenticity.

[@getlingganyooger]

@@Stay_alert me too

[@Stay_alert]

I'm pretty sure that happened on another drive, at 3:12.

[@Stay_alert]

4:15 as well.

[@getlingganyooger]

@@Stay_alert yeah i missed

[@micosstar]

why so many? | yt recommend

[@daniel5074]

Love it

[@Volvotech740]

17:28 i have that same WD500AAKX 500gb still in my pc with wd500 ssd. i have lot of those same older and new hdds

[@imnotbeluga007]

Same here. My ludicrously fragmented and slow boot drive. But it's more masked by the fan noise...

[@imnotbeluga007]

Well, it was fragmented, but when defragmented, it's pretty fast. Haven't fully defragmented my drive, but it already boots twice as fast.

[@ACompExp]

How did you make that transparent enclosure for the opened drives? Maybe some cut pieces of plastic taped together?

[@randomyt666]

I think it's cling wrap. I can't see any lines indicating tape.

[@uc8tv]

@@randomyt666 He uses clear DVD cases I believe he said that in a comment on one of his newer videos.

[@retrotech486]

that Seagate's ST-157 series was i think the last seagate's with stepper motor ;)

[@uc8tv]

Actually that medal goes to the Seagate ST-351A/X at 1:25 :)

[@Radek__]

such a memories from the past 😍

[@smartguy9765]

No velociraptor?

[@ErictheRN]

Nostalgic!!!!!!

[@yusufjaved9895]

cool

[@Kali_Krause]

Never seen a Champ hard drive before. Did they only make them in parts of Europe?

[@mikixyz123]

some people say it's very rare to find one

[@JeremyLevi]

I ran into one in the wild here in Canada, but only once.

[@gshaw0]

@@mikixyz123 I've just been given a pile of them by a friend at a computer shop, very thin, half the height of a normal drive. Be interesting to see how many still work

[@grxninesix]

Toujours ton légendaire Seagate en début de vidéo ^^

[@iSnarkTV]

Tiens un français 🙂🙂

[@samihsantos908]

Hey, this is awesome

[@Sebiohazard]

Fantastique merci !!!

[@Radek__]

0:21 what is, that black thing on the plate? wtf?

[@sneugler]

It uses the wind generated by the spinning platters to unlock the heads. Otherwise they can’t move in transit

[@Radek__]

@@sneugler I'm surprised. thanks

[@grady631]

It pisses me off that a hard drive from 2005 has more space than I do, fuck HP and their eMMC cost cutting.

[@arnlol]

The amount of storage in some cheap laptops with eMMC is ridiculous, they are basically making brand new ewaste.

[@grady631]

@@arnlol yeah, I'm gonna get an older used computer for cheaper than the laptop and have better specs than 2007 specs.

[@thegeforce6625]

Also really like the sounds of the Samsung SHA-3062A. (would it be possible to make a extended spindle motor sound video of that drive?)