I’m actually impressed by some of these drives seektests. I always thought modern drives as being quite boring because they are so silent but some of these sound quite interesting
@randomyt666 Жыл бұрын
Ever heard the Caviars of that era? They sounded great. Favourite ones are WD1600AAJS (Pinclite variant) WD2500AAKX WD10EADS But yes, the new ones are too quiet. My 500GB Blue drive is so quiet
@gregdaweson46576 ай бұрын
@@randomyt666 any new ones that make noise?
@flightvirtual24965 ай бұрын
I like seagate barracuda 7200.11-7200.12 seektest sounds And Constellation ES
@matth9252Ай бұрын
@@gregdaweson4657I have a WD black “gaming” 6TB drive that is actually louder than a lot of older drives when doing work. It also has a nice long spin up and seek test if you like that. It looks and sounds exactly like the 6TB red pro at 10:46. I believe the sizes for black drives other than 4TB and 6TB are different platforms though.
@mkdhxh22 күн бұрын
i love hdd startup it's so satisfying
@plushpersikАй бұрын
0:36 now I realized that at least I have an old disk. These sounds are normal for him.
@mariocruz95402 жыл бұрын
Modern SATA Drives are as interesting as old IDE Drives. Many of these drives make really interesting and unique sounds. Good video and great recordings!
@douro207 ай бұрын
Those WDAV-GP drives run super hot. That's why in DirecTV receivers they are clamped to a heatsink.
@hanks-dances-stuff6 ай бұрын
So when I was younger, and I touched the DIRECTV unit. It was pretty warm and that is why?
@thegeforce66256 ай бұрын
@@hanks-dances-stuffyou’d be correct.
@failblazer200410 ай бұрын
I have the same seagate drive as at 1:44 in my pc, I love the startup and shut down sound of it
@VindicatorHardDrives3 ай бұрын
Me too, I have a different Seagate model, it's actually db35.3 and it's 300gb. Also it's ST3300820SCE
@user-ce7ic1ze2u4 ай бұрын
0:36 sounds just like my 2009 barracuda 1tb!
@genblob Жыл бұрын
I got a 12TB barracuda pro and it sounds identical to the seagate ironwolf drive shown in the video. I love the sound of loud crunchy hard drives
@xamtastic8 ай бұрын
I got a 4TB WD My Passport, and though it's not very loud, I could listen to it starting up and clicking away all day long. So much more personality than SSDs
@DimaBelousov Жыл бұрын
3:00 I like sound of “Samsung SpinPoint 1TB” From iMac 2010 “27” 0:01 sound of “Western Digital Caviar 320GB Blue” seems like a my old AMD Athlon 64 X2 PC 4:36 My favorite sound HDD ever “Seagate Skyhawk 2TB” Used from 2020 I7-9700F Gaming PC
@XL-Tech2 жыл бұрын
that ironwolf drive at the end has a very interesting seektest! That sounds better than a lot of old drives!
@TheDragonFire1232 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to hear what the WD6003FFBX-68MU3N0 sound like; these are rebadged HGST Vela drives. In contrast, Western Digital started taking the same HDAs and using their own firmware and heads in them, similar to what Toshiba had been doing for their DT02 series. Those are codenamed Avalon CR (6 TB 5,640 RPM), Avalon C5 (8 TB 5,640 RPM) or Avalon C (7,200 RPM). I have one of those, a WD80EAZZ-00BKLB0. The spinup sounds (except the start) somewhat the same, but the seek test is identical to that of an Apollo CR, which is a bit anticlimatic.
@Struukbessen2 жыл бұрын
Yeah WD now uses their own technology in HGST HDAs for some drives. I thought that too, when I saw a WD Red WD60EFZX (Avalon C5). It has WD style SMART attributes and PCB number.
@J37152 жыл бұрын
Im actually impressed to see the seagate barracuda es.2 340NS model here I remember that some of them had a rom bug that caused the hdd to have a fault too soon in its life. Had to fix a few until they could be replaced fun times.
@Flexin0107 ай бұрын
I have a IBM deskstar pata. Very distinct startup. Nice video!
@HardKickinGroupGermany5 ай бұрын
0:52 Now, isn't that the sound the machine in Pony Island makes, when you start it up?
@tarekmahmudbhuiyan7368 Жыл бұрын
I also have a small collection of drives starting from an U5 30GB (My first drive back when I was a kid). I love your contents and it is truly encouraging to see a lot of history in your videos.
@sporknife1235 ай бұрын
1:40 didn't initialize. Clicked twice while trying to load service area
@danhutchinsonbackup Жыл бұрын
I actually have one of the first drive you showed in this video which came out of an early 2009 iMac
@rlmedia_yt Жыл бұрын
8:34 That is a newer version of the WD40EFRX
@skvzzi2 жыл бұрын
I love the Maxtor HDDs.. 😁
@zotmidi7472 жыл бұрын
The WD40PURZ-85AKKY0 is an ApolloCR platform based HDD with a 64MB cache in which I have the WD Red Plus WD40EFZX (ApolloCR) with a 128MB cache and does a similar shutdown behavior as the WD40EFRX (Apollo) only when the drive enters into sleep mode (e.g. heads park then automatic shutdown). The screeching noise on these ApolloCR only happen at hard shutoff (e.g. drive unplugged or manually powered off). The funny thing is with a WD blue 4TB WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 (Venice) HDD in my PC does the screeching noises in all aspects of shutdown. Just an FYI the screeching sounds are the normal sounds of the head locking mechanism while the drive powers off.
@Struukbessen2 жыл бұрын
Ye, the ApolloCR is a quite new family. I read somewhere that many HDDs turn the kinetic energy of the spindle into electric energy to park the heads when shutdown suddenly. If you unsolder a specific coil on the PCB, the HDD will die on the next sudden shutdown with stucked heads on the platters. How is the performance of the WD40EZAZ drive, since it's a SMR one?
@zotmidi7472 жыл бұрын
@@Struukbessen it works fine! The performance of that drive is just like my WD20SDZW My passport external HDD when rewriting files because of it also being SMR. Im used to SMR performance although this drive may not be the best but works perfectly fine and efficiently when dumping and reading files!
@TheDragonFire1232 жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough, it seems the drive itself reports 128 MB cache! At least, according to Victoria for my own WD20PURZ-85AKKY0. I would love to see if this is true or not.
@rlmedia_yt2 жыл бұрын
The screeching noise that most modern WD drives make when it is shutting down is normal.
@daand12 Жыл бұрын
09:49 is a rebadged HGST drive, they can be quite loud if in use. I have three of these in use.
@GhostOfDamned Жыл бұрын
I bet its a nice orchestra
@Joshfarmpig4 ай бұрын
im suprised at all of the late 2000s and early 2010s hdds which surpass 1tb and top 4tb
@agreatchaos6 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much you so much i know how ironic this sounds but i just built a brand new gaming pc and i tought my psu is failing, but it was just my hdd
@Iristallite24 күн бұрын
one thing hard drives will always have over ssds for me: the noises
@Pleyer7575lol Жыл бұрын
3:01 THAT IS the Weirdest hdd startup i have ever heard
@fra93ilgrande Жыл бұрын
12TB, holy sheit 😍🔝
@seesikopter Жыл бұрын
3:31 i had this one and it was very loud, also it made the whole case rattle when it read stuff
@doomer372 жыл бұрын
Very cool! Modern drives are underrated. What I am curious is what drive do I keep hearing ticking away in the background?
@Struukbessen2 жыл бұрын
That noise is a power supply of a LiPo charger, I didn't even hear it when filming
@georgewashingtonbush67910 ай бұрын
When I start my Seagate 1000 TB my neighbours fall out of bed ! ^^
@KatsuSush Жыл бұрын
3:28 the very first Hitachi UltraStar to use LG's Direct Drive technology
@rlmedia_yt2 жыл бұрын
7:44 Is this a rebranded Seagate drive?
@aprilkolwey47792 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is - visually it appears to be from Seagate's Lombard family, which suggests that it was originally an ST4000DM000 or something very similar. The mention of "Product of Malaysia" is almost certainly wrong - most likely China or Thailand is correct.
@rlmedia_yt2 жыл бұрын
@@aprilkolwey4779 Okay, but when I heard the spinup of the drive, I was very confused. But thanks for helping me.
@Struukbessen2 жыл бұрын
Yes, refurbished and rebranded. Same as 'Mediamax' for refurbished WD drives. Cheap HDDs with higher chances to fail again.
@zotmidi7472 жыл бұрын
I hear these drives have a higher tendency of failing than the ironwolf 4tb which spins up much faster than the rebranded st4000dm000!
@TheDiskMaster9 ай бұрын
Not a bad collection, do you only collect voice coil stuff?
@XLGaming2 жыл бұрын
I also have a WD2003FYYS, but mine says the capacity on the label. They must have added that in a newer revision of this drive, because mine was manufactured in 2012.
@Struukbessen2 жыл бұрын
The WD2003FYYS had an IBM OEM label in that area, normally the capacity is shown in that revision, too. The Samsung HD501LJ is in good condition. It has 7 reallocated sectors and 63400 power on hours. A full erase and sector scan didn't increase the number of reallocated sectors.
@XLGaming2 жыл бұрын
@@Struukbessen good to hear, my HD321KJ doesnt have a single reallocated sector, but a scan with Victoria Disk Manager showed 2 slow, 600ms sectors. I managed to speed the sectors up by writing to them a few times, which magnetized them enough so they're only 50ms sectors.
@zotmidi74710 ай бұрын
The -1ER16X Series of the Seagate HDDs are a lot more reliable than the older -1CH16X or the -9YN16X series because I have the ST2000DM001-1ER164 HDD and has been working for almost 10 years!!
@cpypcy Жыл бұрын
Heh I used to use WD greens, then reds and now SSDs. My last HDD was WD black 4TB.
@Nintality Жыл бұрын
Are all of these working? The difference in sounds is interesting to hear thx for sharing
@Struukbessen Жыл бұрын
yes, all were working at the time of recording. some drives are sold now
@micosstar2 жыл бұрын
yt recommed | fascinating
@Screenie7-mb7pg5 ай бұрын
I have the 160gb version of the first hard drive
@user-dw6fj1py1o2 жыл бұрын
Cool Video!
@hanzzdreen41002 жыл бұрын
Nice video
@satsumagt52842 жыл бұрын
4:00 I thought it would make a 13000 RPM Hard Drive but ok (Read label)
@BillyPage1337 Жыл бұрын
sounds like most of them already failed or close to failure
@rlmedia_yt Жыл бұрын
6:21 Isn’t that the drive Seagate made that was unreliable?
@aprilkolwey4779 Жыл бұрын
It's one of them (Grenada family), yes. I've had okay luck with later-production ones like the one in the video.
@GoodGooseThingit11 ай бұрын
What do you mean unreliable? I have one in my PC
@gexappeal7434 Жыл бұрын
Why are the 10 and 12 TB Ironwolf hard drives so noisy?
@Iyakanmoments Жыл бұрын
0:41 that sound is my problem how can I fix it?
@Boz1211111 Жыл бұрын
Anyone knows why seagate seems to have specific sound on the very start?
@Struukbessen Жыл бұрын
Seagate hard drives always have three wires connecting the PCB to the motor, the other manufacturers use four wires. Maybe it's because of this different design.
@Boz1211111 Жыл бұрын
@@Struukbessen thanks
@aaronphiri9182 Жыл бұрын
Are the sounds normal for the wd's harddrive...they sound as if they broken or damaged
@nerd64 ай бұрын
Yes, I used have one and one of them sounded like a gieger counter
@user-kp2tj4bu2i2 жыл бұрын
Are some of these hdd broken
@carlwheezerofsouls32732 жыл бұрын
Nope! these are what they’re supposed to sound like, some of them make a little start-up chime, like a little robot “Hello!”
@H53. Жыл бұрын
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Intentional to sound like 'Hello'?
@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Жыл бұрын
@@H53. not intentional, but an accident due to the change of the motor speed during startup, it uses more torque for a split second to get the disk moving, then goes to a lower power mode, making it kinda go BRR-rrrrrrrrrr
@jovianrafferaine54362 жыл бұрын
My wd3200aajs bad sector☹️ 00:01 I'm from Indonesia
@Struukbessen2 жыл бұрын
That's sad. But these drives have become very cheap.