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I have created a compilation of 64 seektests from my hard drive collection. They are played in order of capacity, and therefore are in rough chronological order. This is not my whole collection, I didn't include drives that have poorly audible seektests or can't perform one(obviously). This is a sort of teaser for my full drive collection video which I will be releasing next week. It took hours of work and I can't wait to share it with you guys.
As drives have gotten quieter over the years, their seektests have become increasingly faint and unnoticeable. This is to my great disappointment. Thankfully, they are still prevalent in server and high-capacity drives. Seagate's high-capacity Exos series and WD's Ultrastars have long initializations that feature buzzing noises.The sequence is at relatively louder volumes compared to other more consumer-grade counterparts. Funnily enough, some people thought something was wrong with their drives. I have seen people on KZbin and Amazon complaining about the noise, which is the normal start-up procedure. Just wait until they see the beatboxing Maxtors of the early 2000's!
Drives featured in order:
-Seagate ST351A/X
-Conner Peripherals CP2064
-IBM WDS-280
-Western Digital Caviar 280
-IBM WDS-2120
-Quantum GoDrive 127AT
-Toshiba MK1722FCV
-IBM DHAS-2270 (Not sure if last part is still the seek test, left it in anyway)
-Areal Technology A260
-Western Digital Caviar 2340
-Seagate ST3391
-Western Digital Caviar 2420
-Toshiba MK1924FC
-Toshiba MK2428FB
-Toshiba MK0501MAT
-Western Digital Caviar 2540
-Western Digital Caviar 2700
-Toshiba MK1926FCV
-Toshiba MK0803MAT
Western Digital Caviar 2850
-Western Digital Caviar 11000
-Western Digital Caviar 21000
-Integral Peripherals Platinum 1080
-Western Digital Caviar 31200
-Toshiba MK1301MAV
-IBM DMCA-21440
-Toshiba MK1401MAV
-Western Digital Caviar 21600
-Samsung VG32163A
-Western Digital Caviar 22400
-Quantum Fireball ST 2550AT
-Western Digital Caviar 33100
-Maxtor 83240D3
-Samsung WU33205A
-Toshiba MK4006MAV
-IBM DTCA-24090
-Western Digital Caviar 14300-00RT
-Seagate ST34323A
-Quantum Bigfoot CY 4320AT (Stalls during seek test, clipped)
-Fujitsu MHK2060AT
-Samsung SV0644A
-Seagate ST36421A
-Western Digital Caviar 36400-32LC (Stalls during seek test, clipped)
-Western Digital Caviar 26400-00RN
-Maxtor 30768H1
-Seagate ST38421A
-Maxtor 31024H1
-Toshiba MK1016GAP
-IBM DJSA-210
-Maxtor 51023H2
-Western Digital Caviar 200AA
-Seagate ST320413A
-Maxtor 32049H2
-IBM Deskstar 25GP
-Toshiba MK3018GAS
-Hitachi Travelstar IC25N030ATMR04-0
-Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8
-IBM Deskstar 120GXP
-Western Digital Caviar WD800JB-00CRA1
-Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
-Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD-75MSA3
-Hitachi HDS721016CLA382
-Western Digital Caviar WD2500JB-00GVA0
-Western Digital Caviar WD2500JB-00REA0
Recording setup:
Drives are placed on left palmrest of 2021 14" MacBook Pro, then powered on and recorded with Audacity. Better results than you'd think, right?
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