I like the "overgrown floppy drive" sound the stepper motor on this particular one has.
@arnlolАй бұрын
Well to be fair the way this kind of drive works is really similar to floppy drives, with a linear motion head moved by a stepper motor, so that’s not too surprising I guess though I didn't really think of that comparison myself.
@aprilkolwey4779Ай бұрын
@@arnlol Sure, but it's a slightly different tone than something like a 3650 and (at least to me) sounds slightly more interesting.
@GemmaCompOffАй бұрын
The drives of the 80s surprise with their great reliability and survivability. Modern HDs break down in a couple of years, and these are 30-40 years old, and they still work
@windisk1112Ай бұрын
*Most of the bad units died a long time ago leaving us with the best ones to roll off the production line. Stepper based hard drives from the 80s and early 90s are really unreliable and often won't hold data for more than a few years...
@nuherbleath461Ай бұрын
I had a similar one (8225), it was made in ‘89 like this one and it turned and and worked first time after being sat for 20 years in a hardcard with all the data still on it! Until it stopped being able to write after a few months and I had to sell it off He had a similar one which had the same issue, a churrnibg noise when you tried to write to it.
@arnlolАй бұрын
Well to be fair, the data density on a modern hard drive is so much more… There’s drives now that store 1 million times more data than that MiniScribe. And obviously it’s only going to be in 40 years that we will really know if some of those modern drives of the 2020s will still work when 40yo or not. There’s sadly a lot of old drives that are bad, or that died years and years ago. But yeah, it’s impressive that precise mechanical devices that are 30-40 years old can be found and still work properly.
@GemmaCompOffАй бұрын
@@nuherbleath461MiniScribe as a whole is not famous for its reliability, many in the 80s and 90s they died a year after purchase.
@Avra_64Ай бұрын
Wish there were modern hard drives that are this loud! The best I've got to loud is a 14tb WD ultrastar enterprise drive but that guy makes cool active sounds and has a great seektest
@arnlolАй бұрын
Modern drives are very quiet… I have a 6TB WD drive in my PC that is actually quite audible when it seeks, but still nowhere near vintage drives. Stepper drives aren’t all this loud though, some of them are quite a bit quieter, but MiniScribe certainly didn’t try to make theirs quiet.
@theSoundCarddatabaseАй бұрын
Incroyable. Je seconde Gemma ci-dessous à propos de la durabilité des DD des années 80. Plus la technologie avance... moins elle est durable et c'est vraiment navrant. Un plaisir d'écouter cette vidéo, merci !
@arnlolАй бұрын
Après rien ne dit qu'il ne restera pas de disques des années 2020 fonctionnel en 2060. La densité est également très différente, ce disque ne fait que 20Mo alors que maintenant il existe des disques de plus de 20To (1 million de fois plus), avec des têtes de lecture/écriture minuscule et jusqu’à une dizaine de plateaux donc d’autant plus de chance que quelque chose se passe mal. Et malgré ca les disques tiennent quand même plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’heures. Mais oui c’est fascinant de voir des appareils mécaniques de précision qui ont plus de 30 ans et qui fonctionnent toujours.
@nuherbleath461Ай бұрын
Woo! some stepper motor action! Also unless I missed it, I didnt see a single bad. I had a similar 8225 and they sound awesome
@arnlolАй бұрын
It does have one bad sector, there’s 1 B on scandisk. Which is really not a big deal at all considering the age of the drive and its probably poor storage condition
@sandyred1140Ай бұрын
I would like to see the stepper motor in action too.
@-garrett-2348Ай бұрын
woof, makin' those heads work for it
@RadovanslavАй бұрын
funniest speedsys run of all time
@arnlolАй бұрын
Yeah my SCSI controller makes every drive show as having 255 heads, so on small drives like this speedsys is very scuffed, and also that causes a pretty big loss of capacity, can only use about 15MB. I don’t think it’s possible to make my controller not do that though…
@Mathmos252Ай бұрын
@@arnlol can't you just buy another scsi controller? i dont think they are expensive
@jjohnson71958Ай бұрын
love the sound of the hdd sounds like a helicopter flying in the air
@Mathmos252Ай бұрын
one of my favourite drives :) I wish i had one
@arnlolАй бұрын
MiniScribe drives sound nice. Those are some of the most common stepper drives too so you might eventually find one. If only sellers didn't try to sell for crazy prices…
@notsoseagateyАй бұрын
Floppy sounding drive :) Really like this one, sad about that single bad
@arnlolАй бұрын
That bad sector really isn’t much at all, especially on a drive this old that also looks to not have been stored very well considering the corrosion on the top cover. It really doesn’t bother me much. Drives of that era often came with bads from the factory even, though maybe not SCSI ones (but MFM ones definitely could)
@doomer37Ай бұрын
I thought this was a brick for a second haha. Sounds like it vibrates quite a lot when spinning.
@arnlolАй бұрын
Well no it isn't, I mean, we probably will never find a miniscribe brick, I assume they probably didn't actually put their brand on the bricks themselves. I know DiskMaster would like to find one but I doubt they even exist. I hadn't noticed but yeah I guess the drive vibrates a bit, but it's not the annoying loud vibration that 7200 RPM drives sometimes do so I didn't even pay attention to it.
@tf.yАй бұрын
i'm curious to know, has one of all the hard drives you tested, stopped working in the middle of hdmotion test?
@arnlolАй бұрын
It has happened once but I’m not really sure what happened and it wasn’t really because of HDMotion. I was running it on a Quantum Prodrive ELS and suddenly the drive spun down in the middle of it. After that the heads got stuck to the rubber (it had not been stuck before that). It was the first time I tried to deal with one of those and I messed it up. So yeah the rubber killed it but I have no idea why it spun down in the middle of HDMotion seemingly parking with more force than usual too. Aside from that I never had any other issues with it.
@bobjoe2827Ай бұрын
These drives will reallocate bad sectors if you LLF them with the SCSI Bios.
@arnlolАй бұрын
When I got the drive it seemed full of bad sectors, I ran the SCSI format and it was fine after with just that one bad. I probably could get it reallocated using the verify feature of my SCSI controller I guess but it doesn't really matter that there's one visible bad so I haven't tried.
@bobjoe2827Ай бұрын
@@arnlol It's probably out of spare sectors, I wouldn't worry about it if it works fine (it seems to function well in the video).