Quantum Bigfoot CY 3240AT 3.2GB (1997) - Hard Drive Sounds

[@RusRus72]

I love this hard drives startup seek sound

[@QuantumDriveEnjoyerQDE]

Nice idea to make background of drives.

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

I had one of these in an old pentium desktop system(was a pizza box). I remember the spin up sound and seek test. Definitley cant forget that!

[@ArchangelTirael]

Imagine if modern companies will produce 5.25 harddrives in 2024 with the current day technologies. What specs will they have? :')

[@bigbluebananabread]

@@ArchangelTirael Always thought that myself too!! Certainly not fast, but imagine the capacity! :)

[@Denisab2001]

I did think of 4200 ish rpm 20 platter 60TB helium hard drives…

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

I wonder could they make a 7200 RPM bigfoot ?

[@MyComputerStudios_]

Oh, a bigfoot! Nice one!

[@GaryBeltz]

My teacher at the votech that I went to in the 1990s had one of Quantium Bigfoot drives not sure if it was this exact size but he put in a computer in our electronics lab and it was our main local RedHat Linux server.

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

Sounds like the main drive bearing might be going out. I never owned the 3.2GB Bigfoot, but I did own a 2.5GB for a while.

[@bigbluebananabread]

This one has definitely seen better days. Fun drives, but I'm sure the 2.5GB variant was at least a bit fun (well, slow of course haha).

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

@@bigbluebananabread For the time, the 2.5 was fairly fast. Slow by current standards of course.

[@mikebakstrom]

holy cow this video really tips you off, its a 600kbs miniscribe with left over parts in storane drive reissued 14 yeara later, they discovered how to overclock the media 6x

[@emeraldmakesstuff]

Nice claim, Mind citing a source?

[@TheDiskMaster]

Nice, my CY 6.4 is pretty intermittent these days, but it did come from a recycling yard. The other silver Bigfoot I have died in the middle of HDmotion and has never worked right since.

[@bigbluebananabread]

Bummer! Iconic drives in their own right, this one was from a thrift store and also went through some abuse so I'm not surprised it has issues either. Shame about the one dying from hdmotion though, that's tragic yet somewhat poetic for one of these haha

[@TheDiskMaster]

​@@bigbluebananabreadyep it's just a shame there's nothing I can put next to the Gigastorage B5300A anymore

[@arnlol]

Sounds like the very end of the drive is very damaged to the point even seek commands are not doing good, but it still boots decently well. I wonder how it would do if you did an HPA to reduce the capacity a bit (that's if that drive is even capable of that, which it totally might not, I'm not sure when HPA started to be a thing)

[@bigbluebananabread]

Should've totally done that! I think I'll have to experiment with it a bit more, although unfortunately it sometimes doesn't initialise properly either so I suppose it likely wont last too long regardless. The fact it boots windows is enough for me, having a bigfoot is really nice!

[@arnlol]

@@bigbluebananabread Yeah the bigfoot is an interesting drive. I wish the original ones like mine didn’t have such a boring seek test, the "classic" Quantum seek test like the one you have here is so much better. I’ll have to get more bigfoots of the other variants eventually.

[@bigbluebananabread]

@@arnlol Totally! The classic seektest is so nice. It really sucks that they're pretty hard to find for a decent price, especially since they were supposedly so common back in the day.

[@NLStitch]

Had one of these as well.. god were they slow..😅

[@Mathmos252]

i have a first generation one! 2110at from 1996. started rought filled with bad sectors , gone after a full write so now its healthy! the video of it is on my yt

[@bigbluebananabread]

Sweet! I'll be sure to check that out! Bigfoot's are amazing connection pieces of course, glad to hear yours is in way better shape than this one!

[@maxtornogood]

Ugh, I'm surprised that even boots into Windows!

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

They have plenty of space to boot most Windows versions pre about 2000, as I recall boot space needed.

[@johnhunt1725]

I had a 6GB version

[@KonuralpBalcik]

best of head sound is Conner Peripherals 40mb extreram headbengs

[@Radovanslav]

Big shame about the condition of your drive, it sounds really cool otherwise. I have a 2550AT that was more lucky and is in perfect condition iirc. Thanks for sharing.

[@bigbluebananabread]

Thank you for watching as usual :) I'm quite jealous about your 2550AT... Any bigfoot is lovely to have, but one in perfect shape? Amazing. I hope it continues doing well!!

[@Mathmos252]

@@Radovanslav i have the same model!!! Kinda. The 2110At , the 2.1 version of yours, video on my yt

[@robvdl]

Bigfoot, expecting clunking sounds, heads crashing. That's bigfoot for you. Absolute crap drives although higher size models got "fixed".

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

I had a bigfoot TX 4.0GB in a old HP 233 mhz that decided to start banging the heads around one day and that was it. Never worked again. Replaced with a IBM deskstar 20GB 40GV( first model with glass media And GMR heads, just like all the others of that time it died months after)