Samsung Voyager 3 VG34323A 4.32GB (1998) - Hard Drive Sounds

[@cdos9186]

Great to hear this unit is in perfect shape! It looks perfect on the outside too! If I had to decide between one of these and a Medalist 4321, it would be a hard choice!

[@bigbluebananabread]

Haha, totally! The seek test for me pushes this one slightly over the edge for me i think ;)

[@splat2glitcher]

was gonna release a video on the caviar 280 5 months back but my house burned down and i could not find the drive 😔

[@bigbluebananabread]

I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you're recovering well from that situation, that's really awful. Perhaps you'll find another 280 one day to make a video on, so sorry it was lost! The early Caviar's like that are really interesting.

[@splat2glitcher]

@@bigbluebananabread aye man thanks we is recovering good thankfuly

[@theaustralianconundrum]

I'm slowly adding to my collection and now safe in the knowledge that I can use my BlueSCSI card so I can save all my working SCSI drives for the future!

[@bigbluebananabread]

Always great to hear another collection coming together, I wish you all the best with expanding it! The BlueSCSI will surely help, old 50-pin SCSI drives are really getting to be ridiculously expensive! I'm sure in coming years those working drives will be even more valuable!

[@theaustralianconundrum]

@@bigbluebananabread Thankfully there are enough people who do not know their value and I am still finding 5.25" full height 500mb and 1 GB working drives for $10.00!

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

Might have had a few of these back in the day. I remember the seek test. It's very fast! Does this have the green activity light on the bottom?

[@bigbluebananabread]

Yes! It does indeed have a green LED on the PCB! They're really nice drives, the seek-test is quite wonderful.

[@crocoland6330]

Well hello there! It has been more than a year since I posted my last HDD video (since I ran out of content) I still like enjoying hard drive videos but I don’t think I’ll ever get back to it (only if I’m lucky and I find a stepper HDD). Nice video!

[@bigbluebananabread]

It's really nice to hear from you! I see your videos on my feed and check them out now and again, although I often struggle with what to comment since I don't know as much about the topics :) If you ever pick up any interesting drives, I'd love to see a video on them! Always nice to see stuff like that, so I'm glad you're still around, thanks for watching :)

[@crocoland6330]

@@bigbluebananabread No problem my friend! Once a viewer always a viewer! When I see a hard drive on my feed I always watch it since I love the way they work! I’m glad that you watch my new kind of topic! If I am ever lucky and find an interesting old hard drive I’ll post it!

[@AustrianDeathMachine9]

Hey! I really enjoy watching your HDD videos. I was wondering if you have any extra SCSI drives lying around that I could put to use In my macintosh. The drive it has is dead and in disrepair. I would be willing to buy.

[@bigbluebananabread]

Thanks very much for watching, I really appreciate it! Unfortunately I don't have many SCSI drives in great shape (this is of 50pin & 68pin variants, a lot have been dying in my collection unfortunately or have a lot of problems). Of the ones I have remaning I have intent to use them in most cases (be in inside systems or external SCSI enclosures, which is where a lot of them have come from). I know that a few people use 80-pin SCSI drives in Macintosh systems with applicable adapters, so perhaps that's worth a go? It's a little difficult to find the correct adapter from what I've read for some systems, but it's certainly possible to do so. There's a good video here discussing it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXnOoIuHfZitg6c 80-pin drives are usually very cheap, so maybe that's a direction worth going in? They still sound quite lovely & loud, so I'd certainly recommend it.

[@AustrianDeathMachine9]

@@bigbluebananabread Thats a good idea. I'll look into it, thanks!

[@Nikkerston]

this sounds nice

[@Jones5121]

almost seems like the predecessor to the excellent 80-160gig spinpoints that came later

[@MyComputerStudios_]

At least the outer HDA design, was used ever since the Winners

[@bigbluebananabread]

If only the seek-test remained as crazy as it did on these!

[@jacobsabian4386]

hdmotion is super mesmerizing lol