Spin up/down of 44 old hard drives : June 2022 HDD collection update

[@douro20]

Yes, that Fireball EX 6.4AT was made in Ireland. The factory was in Dundalk, County Louth, and was owned by Matsushita. It was closed in 2000, being the last disk drive plant in Western Europe.

[@getlingganyooger]

old but gold drives

[@TheRedYTPer]

That Quantum Fireball 640AT has good bearings! Even the spindle is silent!

[@exaltedb]

Those Atlas 10K’s have quite the interesting seek test

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

I love their seektest. They beatbox. And depending on how many platters inside the drive, the seektest may be short or long.

[@cbw56]

1:23 This Seagate ST3144A looks to have originally been from a Packard Bell desktop. It has a "Format #" label of 555006 and PB's date format of March 17, 1993.... cool!

[@arnlol]

Oh that's interesting! I know some of my drives originally came from compaq machines because of having stickers saying that, but had no idea about the others and never really paid attention to that

[@retrotech486]

Finally I was waiting for this! :D

[@Dime_XT]

I made a hard drive collection video. Is my collection any good?

[@NelsonBigGunP200Fan]

I had a few of those ST15150N drives in a server running Windows ME. They were fast at the time. And I loved the seek test they had as well.

[@iSnarkTV]

11:39 HAyEAyEAyEAyEA + Guns Sounds , PERFECT !!!!!🤣

[@Kali_Krause]

Are those ones in the video from months earlier or the ones dying in your collection now? Edit: Ah, that's most unfortunate for the IBM DSAS drive :(

[@arnlol]

I'm not sure I get what you mean. These are all the drives that I got after the first video I made in April 2021, all of them are working (Some with major issues though), and I still have the other drives from the first video except a few that died since that video. The drives from the first video that I no longer have/have died are the opened quantum (Got click of death, not surprised as it was already unusably filled with bad sectors), Maxtor 7540AV (Suffered from sticktion, trying to free the spindle destroyed one of the heads...), super loud Seagate ST3660 (I did something dumb that killed it, but it was so loud it gave me massive headaches anyways) and already bad ST34321A (was already unusable, I opened it and stuck it to my wall as a decoration peice along with a lot of platters and heads from various dead drives)

[@ACompExp]

Yeah glad that you got a better seagate st3660a unlike the other one with worn bearings.

[@TheRedYTPer]

12:44 This drive was originally in a TiVo, hence the word "TiVo" marked on the drive.

[@takcon]

Did that Nordic drive have fluid bearings?

[@XL-Tech]

If you have old black caviars with worn bearings, just let them run for an hour or 2. That usually fixes the bearings.

[@lombaxgddr5468]

12:10 sounds like Helicopter

[@randomyt666]

That Caviar 2340 is by far my favourite I've heard so far. The only ones that come close are the Quantum drives or the WD1600AAJS with the Caviar blue branding

[@nightsun152]

1:09 this one sounds like the computer from my summer car!

[@MicropolisOfficial]

Mh, no Micropolis drive in this one...

[@DataDashy]

Quantum FireBall best sound ever

[@XLGaming]

I also have a conner cfs210a, and mines also healthy. Thses are very reliable drives!

[@Nintendo3D5]

Western Digital Caviars are sounding like the disks are too heavy to spin them up but then everything is normal Edit: wait is this Seagate barracuda 2 LP that spins at 7200 rpm??

[@reinn-df2ti]

hello can I ask? can we put files on those old hard drive?

[@arnlol]

Yes, that’s what being healthy means, they are fully functional with no bad sectors and can store data. Obviously depending on the drive you might only be able to use them on period appropriate machines, but drives of a few GB and newer should work with IDE to USE adapters with no issues and be usable on a modern PC if you wanted to.

[@Dime_XT]

Can you make a video show casing and powering all of the dead drives that you still have and old videos of the hard drives you no longer have that died and show a video of them working before showing a video of how they sound and act after they died. I was wondering what the dead hard drives would sound like if powered on. And show the failure date too pls.

[@arnlol]

I cannot do this because I did not keep any of the bad drives. When they are bad I dismantle them. Some of the platter and heads of bad drives I have stuck to my wall, the rest is thrown away.

[@Dime_XT]

@@arnlol Thank you for the reply. Could I edit together a complete hard drive video including all of your hard drives for you pls? I want to help people who make hard drive content edit or make videos.

[@arnlol]

@@Dime_XT Well if I really wanted I could have made a video with all of them (I still have all the files to load the first video in my editing program) but I thought an update like this made more sense (So you can only listen to the new ones if you already listened to the first video, and if you want to hear them all then you can watch them back to back). As for the editing, I prefer doing it myself, maybe it isn’t the best but I think it is good enough, especially since we’re here to listen to the drive’s sounds so the video doesn’t matter too much, but thanks for offering. Maybe you could consider making your own? That drive in your IBM PS2 is probably quite interesting… ;)

[@Dime_XT]

@@arnlol Thanks for the reply. I am currently helping edit hard drive videos for another person right now. I have a small hard drive collection mainly 250 GB Seagate's. I found a lot of 2 Seagate U5's on eBay which I am considering buying. I also have that IBM hard drive, and a few others I could make a video on. Also, What hard drive is your favorite from the ones you own, mine is probably the failed quantum fireball EX 3.2 or Maxtor 90651U2 or the failed Seagate U4 or the Seagate ST351A/X or the newer Seagate ST157a. Also I just noticed you got the community tab! Now you can post about upcoming videos and about hard drives if you want.

[@Dime_XT]

@@arnlol I have a working 3.2 GB JTS champion hard drive. Is it a good collectable hard drive?

[@sertyfox2425]

Love your videos!) Maybe I have hdd sounds mania, also listening my hard drives as starting computer XD. WD1502faex have nice sounds while working ^^

[@randomyt666]

Same. I don't think I have any drives in my machine with a manufacturing date past 2017. The noisiest is a WD1600JS that I use as an external backup. It's dated from 2006. I personally prefer WD drives as they're more reliable than Seagate's drives from my experience. The quietest 3.5 is either my WD10EADS or the WD5000AZLX.

[@mikixyz123]

Wait. What happened to the other hard drives from previous collection video??

[@Kali_Krause]

He still has them but two from the first collection video have died since then

[@arnlol]

Except for a few that died I still have them. This is just the update, the new drives that I got after I made the first video.

[@mikixyz123]

​@@Kali_Krause wait which ones?

[@mikixyz123]

​@@arnlol Which ones??

[@Dime_XT]

​@@mikixyz123 The ones that died in @Arnold0 - Arnlol 's words from another comment he made "Opened quantum (Got click of death, not surprised as it was already unusably filled with bad sectors), Maxtor 7540AV (Suffered from sticktion, trying to free the spindle destroyed one of the heads...), super loud Seagate ST3660 (I did something dumb that killed it, but it was so loud it gave me massive headaches anyways) and already bad ST34321A" .

[@DataDashy]

lol what a nice video

[@fedos7789]

Im 1000 sub

[@MyComputerStudios_]

No one cares

[@aspinx]

@@MyComputerStudios_ Looks like at least you did!