Old Hard Drive Spinups / Start Sounds - HDD collection (part 2)

Spinup sounds of 25 old Hard Drives

[@ArcadeAssaultSrb]

4:29 i remember having maxtor diamond max plus 9 80gb,and samsung 80gb on my windows xp machine,damn nostalgia

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

I had a friend that had a DTLA-307045. It lasted maybe a week before dying to the scratch and click of death. It was fast and quiet when working.

[@cdos9186]

Really liked those two IBM Deskstar drives!

[@garbage100]

The IBM drives allways sound the best!

[@cdos9186]

@@garbage100 Those 75GXP and 40GV models sound great, but are awfully unreliable. They tend to get bad sectors and it is downhill from there. They don't last long if used regularly, they get hot particularly the 75GB and 60GB models, best way to keep them functional is literally to not use them.

[@CurtisLittlechild92]

That Seagate U6 had an interesting spin up sound.

[@crocoland6330]

I have an ExcelStor Callisto 80gb (similar to that Jupiter one) and when it reads or writes it makes a pretty loud noise but that seagate st 125N -0 is my favorite

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

that DTLA 40GB i used to have a 20GB of that same model line, the 40GV. it was a warranty replacement for a failed quantum bigfoot in a HP Pavilion PC that had a 233 mhz pentium in it.

[@RastaHuis]

those excelstor drives were nothing but trouble, they died in a short amount of time if they weren't DOA...

[@Struukbessen]

there are Excelstor drives with their own technology and drives with IBM technology around that look the same as IBM/Hitachi drives. Those drives are quite reliable, my drive (seen at 5:10) and another drive in the third video have 50k working hours and still work. The drive at 1:40 is a real Excelstor drive. It is working, but only has 20 power on hours. All Excelstor drives only have 1 platter inside.

[@NSHG]

The rebranded IBM/Hitachi ones were actually as good as standard IBM/Hitachi, performance wise. I have an 80GB one I randomly picked for an ABIT BE6-II build a week ago. 98 SE ran pretty fast but not by much, the onboard IDE being capped somewhere in the ATA 33 or 66 range (not counting the HPT366 controller which IS ATA66 itself.)

[@RastaHuis]

by that time hardly anyone bought them anymore and the company went under, we certainly told our supplier never to send one again. we saw a few of those ibm/hitachi drives before we never heard from them again.

[@cdos9186]

@@Struukbessen I'm curious to know if that ExcelStor at 1:40 still works?

[@Struukbessen]

@@cdos9186 Yes it's still working but it's mostly lying around. Maybe it has 5 more Spinups now

[@XLGaming]

those ExcelStor drives are very unique. they sound like rebadged hitachi drives.

[@Struukbessen]

They indeed used Hitachi/IBM technology. But always only with 1 platter.

[@user-sy3ny2zl5f]

I have Hitachi Deskstar 160gb. But ExcelStor Jupiter sounds like Hitachi.

[@spontanvideok246]

I fix my SAMSUNG hard drive of the SV1022D type with yours and the SV2044D but the disk engine and spin sound as well as the write / read head are the same. The plate may be only 2 in mine. 40 GB is mine

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

was that excelstor a drive they made by themselves? i noticed they made drives that looked like rebranded HGST drives. That one in this video looks different.

[@Struukbessen]

Yes, the ExcelStor Gemini is a drive made by themselves

[@spontanvideok246]

The Maxtor HDD when it shuts down at 5:03 is why it has such a squeaking sound. I have the same one as the video I sent, the link to which I sent. Would that squeaking sound be the sound of a plate brake? I've always wondered why this sound is. One of my Seagate HDDs also has this squeaking sound to hear only louder.

[@hanswurst4070]

When the HDD is shut down, the heads park in the landing zone and when the spindle speed gets low, the heads touch the platters there and make this sound. Absolutely normal for old drives without ramp loading technology. The landing zone is a hardened area, only for parking of the heads and not for data.

[@goatfacegames]

Thanks for sharing this! May I use some of the sounds in an indie game I'm making?

[@Struukbessen]

sure, of course

[@goatfacegames]

Thanks! Do you want to be credited? If so, how would you like your name/channel name to appear?

[@mrkevinkillercrafterminecr895]

@@goatfacegames whats the game? im curious

[@goatfacegames]

@@mrkevinkillercrafterminecr895 Call Hating. Coming to Steam this June!