Jet Engine in Retro Computer. Old MFM Hard Disk Spin Up Compilation & Benchmark Results

8 old MFM Hard Disk Drives are here presented to listen nicely to the nice retro sound of spinning up and the moving heads during benchmark. These beasts sounds like jet engines and this was the sound we were used to in old computers. A must for a retrolover today too.
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
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the sound too like I do ;-)
Contact me for anything you want to tell me.

[@ZachAttackIsBack]

Now I know where hollywood gets all its "futuristic" background noises.

[@tamber5977]

Ironic, huh?

[@jamesmelendez9971]

Sound in Alien when they go to “talk" to Mother

[@ZachAttackIsBack]

@@jamesmelendez9971 Exactly what I was thinking. Plus, lots of background sounds in the movies Wargames and Short Circuit.

[@Comrade_YG]

They use ancient devices to make futuristic sound effects lol 😂

[@Rodrigo8]

@@jamesmelendez9971 I thought exactly about this scene

[@oreste6076]

Imagine you iPhone making such a Noise AND moving along the Table on Boot

[@CPUGalaxy]

Oreste Schaller 😂

[@aidenbuchler687]

Yeah, you have the power of eMMC to thank for that not happening.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

The Original iPods also made quiet disk sounds...

[@WarrenGarabrandt]

And if you move it, it head crashes and dies.

[@archerDC]

Aifon idiots

[@bubblehead78]

I can't believe I actually sat through 6:08 minutes of hard drive sounds... on Christmas Eve! lol.

[@tylerlowden8023]

Welcome fellow nerd!! lol

[@samyosocoo]

608 mins it’s not that long

[@joefish6091]

ESDI drives next please

[@prav4981]

No time wasted

[@Manveru1986]

Hi

[@kg_canuck]

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!

[@NurAdinugraha]

It's even more incredible if you factor in its size Wouldn't even take a full minute to fill the entire hdd

[@Marszczak]

Please come back in 2040:)

[@jakeblanton6853]

I can remember adding an actual Seagate ST-506 drive to my original IBM PC... A whopping **5** M... The power supply could not handle it and I had to install an external power supply with a wire going into the PC just for the hard drive... It sounded like a small turbine slowly spooling up...

[@Phenom98]

@@NurAdinugraha a minute? You mean a less than a second. My drive can write 140MB/s peak.

[@xenuno]

@@Phenom98 Not at 700KB/s .. which was his point. Do the math ...

[@tehhamstah]

I don't understand the internet's fascination with ASMR - but THIS is just fantastic to my ears!

[@CTMKD]

I don't know why but I really like the spin ups of old hdds!

[@thiesenf]

This is a source of eargasm...

[@TheRealInscrutable]

Yeah, those asmr vids really creep me out.

[@pafawag5b6b5b]

but probably wouldn't be that fantastic if you had to hear it every day at work lol

[@seanabsher5577]

I like these but there was also similar, and yet more intensely "jet engine" sound in many scsi hard drives in the mid to late 1990s. I remember some that had insanely high rpms , almost double or more than what these drives would reach.

[@xendraven]

2:19 VTEC kicked in yo!

[@win95beta5]

at 7500 rpm

[@tanmaywho]

Time to zoom zoom around the block.

[@Tovvvija]

2:21 and blowed the crankshaft

[@acer2jz496]

lmaoo

[@uunganteng]

Yahhh😸

[@Mr-Electronist]

Some of the hard drives sound like a World War II air raid siren.

[@dhdh2918]

And then gunfire in the background

[@CTMKD]

The magnetic peripherals sounds like a thunderbolt weather siren... Like exactly the same.

[@starryphantasm]

@@dhdh2918 and morse code too

[@user-im5ok5px2p]

Its only a air dynamic syren, not the seconds war, its an ewery war's syren

[@J4ckCr0w]

Ultra SCSI sounds best

[@kazuki278]

My friends: what r u listening to? Me: Its complicated

[@CPUGalaxy]

😂

[@splat2glitcher]

Lol

[@ygorgomes5202]

Morse code?

[@m.l.9385]

😂🤣😅

[@Un_usuario_de_Google.]

Xd

[@casperknudsen7086]

Imagine 1000 of these in a server center.. God what a noise xD

[@Lucas_Pit]

Ermmmm, did you ever been in a server center stuffed with blade servers ? A hell lot of more noise though.

[@pacoreguenga]

There’s a channel here on KZbin featuring lots of floppy drives, hard drives and old printers playing music.

[@Wassermelonenbaum]

@@pacoreguenga The Floppotron

[@theplayer12312]

i can imagine, would sound like mechanical heaven

[@jazzius]

I know, right? 10,000 MFM hard drives multiplied by their noise = I CANT HEAR ANYTHING. Wait, IM DEAF!!!

[@abooogeek]

The IBM scared the hell out of me, thought the heads were crashing on the plates!

[@AdamWebbadamwbb]

Same it would be a sound i would not want to hear from any modern system.

[@Devo_gx]

That's exactly what I was going to post after hearing it

[@ThoosieCentral]

i was like oh no the ibm is dying :( thats a sound i never want to hear

[@n.s.ac.i.ajointeffort1983]

Oh no anyway

[@SrLobo90]

That sound means that the HDD is in good condition, it is scary but the sound is completely normal in these units, the disk launches a test pulse to the actuator to check that it works (and produces the characteristic sound), after the test it begins to operate. This HDD has a magnetic actuator, it was a pioneer in using this type of actuator, since almost all HDDs of that time used a stepper motor actuator.

[@petervandoren8245]

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..

[@BlackEpyon]

I know what you mean. To this day, my room has so much fan noises from the various comptuers, and the ventilation fans in the window, that if the power goes off, I'm wide awake instantly.

[@gator_productions]

69 like

[@felixf8924]

Very funny way of getting in sleep and a very cool way that our bodies wake up to sudden changes in environment.

[@silasmcgee3647]

@@BlackEpyon I had an EA in elementary who had a daughter like that no matter the season she always absolutely positively had to have a fan running when she slept and if at any point the fan lost power or in that case the whole house you would know straight away if she's awake

[@RowanBird779]

@@felixf8924 Yeah, it's less that something happened and more that something major changed

[@aaronsilvestri3181]

Could listen to this all day. So many of these brought back memories!

[@CPUGalaxy]

Aaron Silvestri lol yes. This thing sounds crazy. Fist I thought too the heads were crashing. But the drive works fine without any failures.

[@Lezz95]

my ears are exploading instead! hahaa

[@lengannduch7691]

Sounds like an engine dynoing when it spins up.

[@rogerbarton497]

Just like remembering long lost friends

[@EthanSeville]

Quite modern drives are boring also boring that cant see it i like the old drives that had windows

[@Sarahxxx666]

The cure for anyone whining about coil whine: put one of these inside your PC and there you go ... No more audible coil whine !

[@CTMKD]

Just sweet hdd noises

[@randalldraco3822]

If you remember the times when the single only fan in the PC was the 80mm in PSU. HDD was what actually was the "computer noise". That was fun. And actually had noise level was a factor in choosing brand. WD Caviar was louder than Segate.

[@Eagle10021]

Or better yet, use intel stock coolers.

[@CTMKD]

You know that a Coolmax V-500 power supply would to the noise trick with exploding capacitors and loud fans.

[@iCore7Gaming]

@@randalldraco3822 was there no cpu fans?

[@andrewdonatelli6953]

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.

[@jakewarner1993]

That metallic plink sound from the IBM one after initialization was just pure gold

[@HunterShows]

That's not supposed to happen. :p

[@soniclab-cnc]

So cool with the stepper just sitting on the side with an optical encoder for position. "do not rotate" lol! super nostalgic. Thank you.

[@angieandretti]

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!!

[@BlackEpyon]

The chassis I'm using for my i7 rig was originally a 386/486-era server chassis. It originally housed up to 7 full-height 5.25" SCSI drives or 14 half-height 5.25" (CD-ROM sized) drives. The capacities of the drives that were still working when I got it were between 4 and 9GB, but the sound was the same as these old MFM drives. Sounded like a poorly maintained jet engine starting up.

[@xenuno]

The IBM and the 1st NEC for me. Very unique. There were no losers tho ..

[@TamamoF0X]

Being only 17, I never really had a chance to experience these retro HDD's but damn, the spin ups are certainly distracting

[@bobabier5394]

be glad you never experienced it. from a today's point of view it's kinda cool and retro. but back in the days it was just pain in the ass to get hardware running as you want it to. i mean plug and play was not a thing at this time and you needed drivers for every fucking single piece of hardware and once you installed it, something other wasn't willing to work because it was not compatible. the hours i spent just to get the machine running... pain in the ass! be happy to grow up in a time when every idiot can assemble a PC :D

[@ngcbg639]

@@bobabier5394 Thumbs up for that comment! I can second that - back then one must have a considerable knowledge about the hardware software generally speaking. Just for taste - IRQ's , DMA's, type of memory (OS perspective) , electricity (a lot more than present day toys), jumpers, etc, etc. In the case of harddrives - cylinders, heads, type of access and so on... Be glad you never experienced it, really! Still, from an another point of view - the base knowledge related to these technologies could be very beneficial even today. But if you are not any kind of professional, related to the IT industry, it's just a nonsense.

[@rubiconnn]

5:15 it sounds like it could be recorded at the Isle of Man TT

[@mrnmrn1]

By Clive :-)

[@ChazizMTA]

Guy Martin

[@unlined_sardine7426]

1:27 sounds like a car revving up 😂

[@audiodood]

I love vintage computers, and hard drives in general. My dad has an old Compaq Armada 7800 and the hard drive sounds amazing.

[@CPUGalaxy]

yeah, old hard disk drives sounds really cool. love that too.

[@audiodood]

@@CPUGalaxy The design of the hard drive in the armada laptop is weird, it looks like a mini version of an old seagate

[@Sicraft]

@@CPUGalaxy But it crashes really fast xd

[@xenuno]

Ya my bro has a mini computer from late 80's. The drives I can't even find pic of on the net. The motors are not direct drive (or should i say inline). The motor is perpendicular to the platter shaft and thus must have a 90° bevel gear set. Capacity is in the tens or low hundreds of MB range. They are pretty.

[@AndyFletcherX31]

Many years ago I had a miniscribe 32MB drive plugged into an expansion slot of my Amstrad 1512. I'll never forget that startup sound :) The optimum interleave in that system was a massive 11.

[@ayoutubechannel6488]

These drives have a higher transfer rate still than my internet speed lol

[@melanodis8655]

shitass internet gang

[@mrmaniac3]

@@melanodis8655 yoooo the good shit

[@user2C47]

Can confirm, usually get between 64 and 540 kb/s on a rural internet connection. If it goes below 64k, the equipment starts sending data over the PSTN. Still waiting for Starlink.

[@TheCrazyErrorLion]

@@andyk192 He means about KB/s not Kbps. Also, dial-up internet isn't even capable to offer more than 300 Kbps of transfer rate.

[@seendabeen1740]

Rip

[@arjanvuik2004]

I know this is almost a year old, but hearing these sounds takes me back to when I got an ST41200 from a friend back in the day and my parents, after half a year, bought me a 1.2 GB Quantum Bigfoot because this thing made so much noise, it kept the whole family awake when I gamed late at night :D

[@crazychicken2005]

My dad had a 6gb one on an HP tower computer, he said that people who came over to his house could not figure out what the sound was until they found the computer, after a while he just put it into hibernation mode when people came over

[@sonicatdrpepper]

Some of these remind me of burning dvds in my laptop. Pretty nostalgic.

[@Alexagrigorieff]

I love smell of burning DVDs in the morning

[@CTMKD]

I still use dvds sometimes as fake mfm hard drives because they are slow and noisy lol

[@joegee2815]

I've had many of these either at work or personally in that era. Don't forget to park the heads before shutting down!

[@nup5]

Wonder how many drives were lost due to someone forgetting and/or software failures

[@BlackEpyon]

@@nup5 That's the problem with buying used MFM drives. Often, you get somebody just scrapping old machines, and selling whatever they think us vintage computer nerds will buy, but they have no idea what it means to park the heads.

[@nup5]

@@BlackEpyon didn't think about that ... you could be buying a failing/dead drive, and what's worse is the seller could claim they had no idea.

[@BlackEpyon]

@@nup5 I recently got one in an XT clone I bought a few months back. I have no idea if it actually works, or if the controller card is dead. Given that it was advertised on eBay and shipped as a parts/repair machine with known issues (that I've since fixed), I don't have much hope that it was properly parked before it was shipped. If I had more of that old stock on hand, I could find out, but I tossed most of that stuff well over a decade ago. I was planning on installing flash storage anyways, so it's not a terribly big loss for me personally, but it would be nice to see these old drives preserved instead of carelessly thrown out.

[@AjinkyaMahajan]

Felt so happy after listing them. My personal Favorite is Quantum, Seagate, IBM, NEC drives sound It refreshed old memories.👍✨

[@megabojan1993]

My father tells me that when these hard drives were new their spinning up/spinning down sounds were much quieter than the ones shown in this video. These drives became more loud with age because the grease inside the motors has dried out with age and it doesn't provide the lubrication it once did.

[@gammaraider]

Oh, the days when clanking and scraping sounds coming out of a harddrive did not mean it just crashed and died.

[@ajgonzalez5109]

It's remarkable how these drives from the 80's all run at about 400 kilobits per second, 30 years later and Linus just showed a 25+ GigaBYTES per second transfer on his newest server.

[@theaustralianconundrum]

Wow. So many sounds again from past. I am now 65 in year 2024. Wonderful video!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@scotty3114]

Brought back some old memories! Sometimes we forget how far we have come.

[@HighwayHunkie]

This IBM TYPE 2 would be a superb alarm clock

[@CPUGalaxy]

Hahaha, Lol, nice idea. I like that. Retro MFM Alarm 😅👍🏻👍🏻

[@AdamWebbadamwbb]

Man if I heard my SSHD make that sound I would immediatly pull tue plug.

[@Charlie_san]

4:43 oh no the hard drive is talking in Morse code

[@Charlie_san]

I honestly don’t know

[@SilverSpoon_]

was tempted to decode it but that's gibberish, also i don't know morse besides ... _ _ _ ... just in case.

[@davidmcgraw3377]

OMG!!! This is amazing! In the early 1980s I had a 5.25", 26 MB, I think MiniScribe MFM hard drive with 30 ms average access which I paid $900 for probably in 1983.

[@PiotrK2022]

I'm kid of 90s, but old MFM hard drive sound and that specific smell of old pc components and dust - I love it. :D

[@ondrejsedlak4935]

Oh man, that brings back memories of my old 54MB Amiga 2000 hard drive.

[@xyzconceptsYT]

I thought the same when I fired up my A590 HD for my Amiga 500 after 31 years. Pretty sure a tear of joy popped out when I heard is spin into life. 😂

[@xyzconceptsYT]

@@Nighterlev It did actually boot into Workbench that was installed on it. Then the spindle started to slow down as it was apparently seizing, I decided to shutdown and revisit this in the future.

[@modables]

memories?? damn grandpa

[@ZoruaZorroark]

oh gosh, haven't heard these sounds since the late 90's, and im glad todays hdd's are silent in comparison

[@rahuldogra]

My laptop doesn’t have one! 😂 Laptop have moved toward SSDs ! Fascinating 20Mb 1990 nd 4TB currently!

[@BlackEpyon]

In modern computers, sure. But with CF cards being used to replace failing hard drives in retro and vintage computers, this sound is becoming nostalgic.

[@DutchSteamboat]

Made in UK - Zerbrechlich "Hey, Alf - what d'ya think Zerbrecklick means?" "No idea - throw it in the box and get back to work"

[@dornsmichel_1364]

Now I know where the random beeping sounds from computers and servers in old movies come from

[@alixxworkshop846]

Thanks a lot you just gave me a timeflash 30 years ago...Man I miss 80's and 90's---Sound that brings memories! Thank you SIR!

[@AnalogThinker]

My type of content, keep em coming!

[@SaschaHenken74]

Remind me of the good old days. In the past before shutting down a PC it was a good step to "park" the HDD read/write head before shutting down the system. Today not needed anymore..... Really cool these old drives :D

[@erny1601]

5:00 didn´t knew this kind of stepper motors were used back then, now theyre used in 3D printers :D

[@HammondOfTexas0]

Seeing that peeked my interest. While I've seen these drives before, I've never come across one with an external motor for moving the heads.

[@UNSCPILOT]

And nowadays our Harddrives might not sing, but 3D Printers deffinitly have lots to sing about in their stead

[@interlace84]

You just brought me back to some of my most precious childhood memories: figuring out our first pc with my dad (an 8088xt clone with 640k ram, a Hercules graphics card and a 20MB Seagate MFM drive with an amber LED.) 😄 Thank you!

[@xendraven]

3 things come to mind when coming back to this video, The film, Alien, Pole Position from the arcade, and Half Life's Anti mass spectrometer.

[@insert_username_here]

Now that you mention it, I can totally hear the connection between the Anti-mass spectrometer and these drives.

[@sabbathian]

You have no idea how happy you made me when I heard that Miniscribe drive.... havent heard it in oh so long... thank you very much

[@TobiasRieperGER]

I am raised with this hardware and i am glad that this times are over. PC parts were expensive, loud and slow. Like a Hot Rod car. I am soooo damn glad that the actual hardware is more quiet than my breathing. Even strong gaming PCs are quiet... Thanks for showing this to remind us oldies to the old times, which are luckily over.

[@jjohnson71958]

i lovie the ibm beeping (sector seking) sound reminds me of Morse code

[@Sand2Go]

Wow, I've never seen so old hard drives, man they were big. Also for them to be in perfect condition is awesome! Keep up the good work mate!

[@MrNicetux]

I love the sound from this old hard drives, when they begin to spin up. My favorite are the ST4096 and the IBM DFHS drive.

[@Align700nitro]

4:33 Thank you so much, this is the first time I saw a HDD with step motor driven head!!!!

[@stevejordan7275]

I fancy the NEC D5126. Not because of how it sounds (though that is fun,) but because you can see the bits moving. What a wonderful exercise. *Thank you so much for taking the time to boot these old drives and capture their noises for us!* I hadn't realised anyone still made FH drives in '88. (Though I was still a few years away from technical literacy.)

[@neogeocroiseur]

the quantum Q540, sounds the same as the Nostromo initializing when it receives the warning signal. I love this sound.

[@BakaOnigiri]

My favorite is clearly the NEC D5126, as I love how the head is protection with a wheel in the outside and with a magnetic lock mechanism. The high pitch sound of the moving head is wonderful. It happen I have the exact same drive that I love to power up just to be able hear this sound.

[@WelshProgrammer]

The Miniscribe is my favourite, had one in my Amstrad PC1640 in the secondary 5 1/4 bay. Such a nostalgic sound.

[@walhalladome5227]

Good vibes when I came into the computer room, then you hear the click when you boot the machines and then this trusted sounds of the hard disks. Damn I want coffee and a game of Tetris, hehe😉👍🙂

[@modelllichtsysteme]

2:14 sounds like a starting jet engine

[@worf8964]

yep

[@LunarDelta]

This is the first thing I thought of: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKjIXoGLnLyVsNk

[@marioquark7940]

VTEC

[@kleetus92]

And then you shit your pants when you hear that *THUNK* as a wrench gets launched out the back...

[@snigwithasword1284]

Wow I never thought I'd want to try to repair one of these but now I realize I have a brick from ~1983 that would be so cool just to hear spin up...

[@gordonfreeman320]

Wow, I love that NEC drive! That’s so cool that you can see a (I’m assuming) stepper motor moving outside the drive.

[@BlackEpyon]

That's a stepper. One trick to fix seek issues is to put a little 3-in-1 oil in the bearings.

[@SOU6900]

Honestly I was expecting these drives to shift gears when they first spun up. 😉 The second to last drive sounds like it was tapping out a message in Morse Code too.

[@faruk4310]

I know they can't shift gears but I really want to hear them shifting up.

[@FDCGaming2010]

@@faruk4310 same it would sound better than a jdm car

[@chriscannon4262]

I forgot how noisey those old cheese graters were, my "mostly modern" Toshibas 2 TB made in 2017 is really quiet especially compared to

[@KokoroKatsura]

noise levels of drives from 2oo3 were improved i believe

[@pedroserapio8075]

Thumbs up for taking your time and record all these hard disks sounds.

[@comodozin]

That IBM Type 2, together with the PSU sound of the PS/2... childhood memories. I remembering hearing that initial "dropping" click of the head and I was always amazed

[@ezzeldin101]

Please keep going, i love this kind of videos💜💜

[@CPUGalaxy]

I will :) Thx

[@retrogamer33]

OK I'm sold, I'm subbing to your channel.

[@SuntopKinseeker]

I am glad they found means to quiet down these drives I DO NOT miss the noise though it brings me back to my XT days and my 8088 days. LOUD drives.

[@ukaszgryka173]

Great sounds... Bringing back memories. In ssd era, we hear that only when a fly tries to check power supply inside.

[@user2C47]

Cheap SSDs do, in fact, make noise.

[@megaslayermurray8674]

4:27 NEC D5126 sounds great someone could remix those sounds and make a great background ambiance track, also the whole drive is 20 MB we have come a long way the new drives coming out now are around 20 TB

[@AdamWebbadamwbb]

Sounds like the radio transmitters in movies.

[@adanvenegas2692]

5:12 Ayrton Senna Could Be Pride of this HDD! XD

[@dmoore0079]

I forgot how loud computers used to be. Floppy drives, MFM hard drives, impact printers, etc. Definitely brings me back to the late 80's when we got our first family computer.

[@douro20]

I believe the drive at 3:33 is an IBM 0665-30 "Rochester" drive. These were among the fastest ST-506 interface drives to be put into production, and were produced in 20, 30 and 44 megabyte versions that I am aware of. (0665-30, 0665-38 and 0665-53, respectively)

[@Monster404ftp]

The Seagate ST-251 MLCI sounds like a learjet 45

[@OogieBoogie_]

1:30 "Right about now ! , the funk soul brother"

[@Zauserr]

It sounded like a car

[@xenuno]

That 4 platter drive is a work of art and beautiful.

[@seymie221]

nice to see goold old hardware! thank you for uploading!

[@TuxraGamer]

Imagine if current HDDs had a separate screw for a small opening where you could get the motors lubricated.

[@CTMKD]

Hard drives would last even longer somehow

[@TuxraGamer]

@@CTMKD Yeah, that's why they don't put it. And there'd be a lot of dumbasses putting shitty oils in it and then claiming warranty.

[@CTMKD]

@@TuxraGamer Yeah, not to say they don't last long. I have the same WD blues that I had 10 years ago and they are spinning day and night and haven't caused a single issue.

[@bea2488]

@@CTMKD depends on the brand and the drive really,wd drives tend to be pretty reliable drives compared to a brand like seagate,at least on the consumer level im not sure about their server/enterprise stuff

[@nup5]

I've had good luck with WD (edit: consumer grade, WD Blue) drives. 2 identical 2TB ones (RAID mirroring) lasted well over a decade, then one crapped.

[@AiOinc1]

Love that you included benchmarking! Would have loved to hear spindown too, but that's okay. I have some of these drives but they've not been properly worked out like this in a long time! Can we get a version 2 using SpinRite and SpeedStor? Edit: I absolutely LOVE the IBM type 2! I've got a Type 0665 myself and they're fast drives. You've earned a new subscriber!

[@CPUGalaxy]

AIO inc. Hi. I would love to make a version 2 coz I like those old HDD‘s a lot! Spinrite and SpeedStor are great tools for this old drives. How do you think to implement this in a video? Spinrite take some hours to finish an analysis and low-level formatting. Do you mean I should explain this tools?

[@AiOinc1]

@@CPUGalaxy SpinRite has a performance test mode, not just reinterleve and analysis. SpeedStor is similar and can seek test and controller test drives. Make it do all kinds of interesting seeks, random, T2T, butterfly, etc.

[@luigisiani3538]

Mi ricorda i miei inizi da tecnico riparatore. Non sentivo alcuni di questi rumori da almeno 40 anni. Si e' risvegliato un bellissimo ricordo. Grazie.

[@johnnydekock]

Seagate 40MB sounds really good, brings back memories!

[@splat2glitcher]

Imagine using this in a sleeper computer

[@mbamebe]

In retrospect, these HDDs could have been used to stabilize satellites replacing gyroscopes. =]

[@CPUGalaxy]

😂👍🏻

[@BlackEpyon]

A gyroscope is used to measure the pitch, yaw, roll, relative to a fixed reference point (where it started spinning). These are used for inertial navigation. What you're thinking of are "reaction wheels."

[@thehelldoicallthis9241]

Theres just something so calming to me about a HDDs sound that I miss. The one downside of SSDs is it just doesn't feel the same without that hum and buzzing.

[@towatai]

i feel exactly the same way. the sound of an old, simply spinning hard disk almost has something meditative about it. if anyone knows a 10h video about this, bring it on ;-)

[@TheSmileyTek]

Classic sounds. Tech has come such a long way to get us to these sweet, silent NVMe SSDs we enjoy today.

[@andheeid]

back then, automatic head parking on my mfm hdd feels like using advance tech

[@mariowiesner2034]

ein sound besser als der andere 👍

[@TechAmbr]

I love the older hard drives that still use big 'ol stepper motors to drive the heads. Makes you wonder if those might even be serviceable today, decades and decades later... You have an extremely impressive collection! Thank you for making this!

[@jeffm2787]

Love the sound of the stepper motors.

[@tsundora_ow7587]

I'm just 17 and this brings nostalgia to me

[@AIC_onyt]

1:32 sounds like a air raid siren

[@Twistedmetal-qe8kx]

Wow, that really brings me back. Excellent work

[@moralfuxery]

These are before my time (kinda) i was born in 90. Got my first PC when i was around 8. But even then they still had all these sounds they were just much more quiet, like a pleasant hum.

[@spike7845]

holy... this takes me back to my childhood

[@stefankruger9547]

These sounds are soo soothing!! I have to keep this clip for when I have been insomnia again

[@tylerlowden8023]

I can't decide. They are all so delightfully unique!!!

[@murphvienna1]

Oh my god I am so into this kind of noise. Its my early childhood. I was 8 years old when I heard those drives for the first time. I didn't think it would touch me, 31 years later. But for me, this is like listening to a crackling fire. It calms me down on *all* the levels.

[@davidgrisez]

I was born in 1951. When I was in college in 1971 the first hard disk drive I saw was on an old IBM 1620 computer. This hard disk drive was huge in size. The disk assembly which consisted of multiple platters was could be removed from the enclosure to install a different disk of multiple platters. The whole cabinet assembly of the hard drive was about the size of a small washing machine.

[@ChakkyCharizard]

My dad, 58 years old, has been into tech and computers since the early 80s. He bought an M.2 SSD in 2021 and we shared a brief moment of wonder over how far hard drives have come in the past 35 years.

[@pixels303at-odysee9]

Funny thing, I remember using these in the 90's. Even in 2001, I stuffed a triple height 600mb MFM into a computer I gave to a family member. When you really think about the sizes of current storage medium, we have grown to nearly 1 million times the capacity in 30 years. Mind blowing really. All that old stuff is kind of useless today.

[@MrLukealbanese]

This is brilliant. A kind of genius at work here.