1:11 Busted! I knew your words per minute was insane as I can see when you type in the password haha. Nice to see you showing off so many Fujitsu drives lately! I do like the buzzing sounds this one makes during the self-test it does.
I read how you record your drives on your website but I feel like the mic is on the hard drive. What are you using to make the sound so low end and bassy? I can hear quite a bit of head movement and it's bassy! I love it.
Ahh, thank you for reading!! I actually need to update that section a little bit, so I hope I'll remember to do that! For modern drives like this, I try to make them sound like if you were close to them being installed in a system (although my mic is quite directional with how it records, so it doesn't always turn out how I want it). So I now install them into a fairly stripped old PC case, then I put a blanket over it so it dampens the sound of my server a bit (since it's running on the other side of the room 24/7). The case is laid on its side, so I just put the microphone somewhere in the case until it has no distortion and sounds as good as I think it can get, then that's the full process! It carries a lot of the rumble of the drive. After that I amplify it of course! SAS drives are pretty loud so they don't need as much amplification as something like a random SATA drive in the common day, so luckily these have a much quieter hiss from my pre-amp. It's a bit tricky to get it to sound as it would in-person, but I do my best with the equipment I have! I try to get the same level across my videos, but to be honest this one is a little quiet compared to older drives etc. Sorry for the long message, but I hope that answers your question adequately :) Thanks a bunch for watching!!
Maybe I should try and get a SAS controller and drives, they sure seem interesting and quite loud for modern stuff! I guess since they were meant to be used on server and to have the fastest performance they could, they didn’t care about their noise level, which is great for people like us :)
I really recommend it, I think you'd quite enjoy them! They're very interesting since we didn't really experience them much of course, I like how they weigh a lot too. They really sound great for something so modern, even the 2.5" drives, so it'll be fun to see if you ever pick any up :)
@@Intellistation6225 Well guess what? I bought a lot of drives that has 2 SAS drives in it… So yeah I ordered a SAS controller so when the controller and the drives are here I can hopefully test them. I hope it won’t be giga pain, for some reason some people appear to really dislike SAS stuff, and since I don’t have that much money I also bought the cheapest SAS controller I found, so I hope that will work out.
Hmm... I just use a standard Server 2008 R2 image I found online a long time ago. Sounds like your image is either bad or the installation device isn't playing dice? I believe my image was from the internet archive, so maybe try giving that a go?
Nice Fujitsu! Do they still make enterprise grade drives ? Wasn't Toshiba bought out by them or was it the other way around ? Seems quiet for a SAS drive too
I just use a SAS to SATA adapter to allow the use of a SATA power connector. From there I hook it up to an LSI SAS card via the blue interface cable, so unfortunately it's purely all SAS without a backplane!
@@hariranormal5584 Hmm, I don't think so unfortunately :( I can only think of possibly using an external PCI-e riser, which you'd then possibly be able to use for SAS drive testing, although it'd be super awkward. Would be pretty incredible to use a 2.5" SAS drive inside, but personally I can't think of any practical way for it sadly. Apologies!
@@bigbluebananabread you can also use one of those adapters that have 2 ends, 1 is the cable and 1 is the power adapter plug-in. those also come in molex, although i havent tested one yet so hard to say if they work.
@@cezarymuchowiecki8748 Luckily it's bad sector free! I'm running HDTune with the drive as the primary OS unit, so the dips are when it needs to do something else unrelated to the test. It'd have no dips if I tested it as a secondary unit, but I have to admit I was a little lazy with running it!
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1:11 Busted! I knew your words per minute was insane as I can see when you type in the password haha. Nice to see you showing off so many Fujitsu drives lately! I do like the buzzing sounds this one makes during the self-test it does.
Nice SAS Fujitsu!
We got another fujitsu Server Raptor hard drive. but this time its 73gb. and short initialization
That's NOT a raptor, especially it is not a Western Digital, not SATA, or even 10000RPM. It is SAS, 15000 RPM and NOT made by WD.
I just said its fujitsu. And thank you for telling me i did a mistake while typing raptor. And i didn't even told its sata.
I read how you record your drives on your website but I feel like the mic is on the hard drive. What are you using to make the sound so low end and bassy? I can hear quite a bit of head movement and it's bassy! I love it.
Ahh, thank you for reading!! I actually need to update that section a little bit, so I hope I'll remember to do that!
For modern drives like this, I try to make them sound like if you were close to them being installed in a system (although my mic is quite directional with how it records, so it doesn't always turn out how I want it). So I now install them into a fairly stripped old PC case, then I put a blanket over it so it dampens the sound of my server a bit (since it's running on the other side of the room 24/7). The case is laid on its side, so I just put the microphone somewhere in the case until it has no distortion and sounds as good as I think it can get, then that's the full process! It carries a lot of the rumble of the drive.
After that I amplify it of course! SAS drives are pretty loud so they don't need as much amplification as something like a random SATA drive in the common day, so luckily these have a much quieter hiss from my pre-amp. It's a bit tricky to get it to sound as it would in-person, but I do my best with the equipment I have! I try to get the same level across my videos, but to be honest this one is a little quiet compared to older drives etc.
Sorry for the long message, but I hope that answers your question adequately :)
Thanks a bunch for watching!!
@@bigbluebananabread Thanks a lot and keep up the videos. I appreciate the response!
Does this drive have head ramp parking?
so bassy tho🔥🔥
Maybe I should try and get a SAS controller and drives, they sure seem interesting and quite loud for modern stuff! I guess since they were meant to be used on server and to have the fastest performance they could, they didn’t care about their noise level, which is great for people like us :)
I really recommend it, I think you'd quite enjoy them! They're very interesting since we didn't really experience them much of course, I like how they weigh a lot too.
They really sound great for something so modern, even the 2.5" drives, so it'll be fun to see if you ever pick any up :)
you should get a controller and some drives, they're pretty interesting imo.
@@Intellistation6225 Well guess what? I bought a lot of drives that has 2 SAS drives in it… So yeah I ordered a SAS controller so when the controller and the drives are here I can hopefully test them. I hope it won’t be giga pain, for some reason some people appear to really dislike SAS stuff, and since I don’t have that much money I also bought the cheapest SAS controller I found, so I hope that will work out.
How did you install Windows Server 2008? When I try to download and install the ISO file, I get the boot.mgr missing error.
Hmm... I just use a standard Server 2008 R2 image I found online a long time ago. Sounds like your image is either bad or the installation device isn't playing dice? I believe my image was from the internet archive, so maybe try giving that a go?
Nice Fujitsu! Do they still make enterprise grade drives ? Wasn't Toshiba bought out by them or was it the other way around ? Seems quiet for a SAS drive too
Yes! Toshiba still make drives derived from their designs to this very day! They were purchased by Toshiba in 2009.
How do you use a SAS drive using SATA?
I just use a SAS to SATA adapter to allow the use of a SATA power connector. From there I hook it up to an LSI SAS card via the blue interface cable, so unfortunately it's purely all SAS without a backplane!
@@bigbluebananabread
Aha I see, so if I have a laptop only is there anyway I can access SAS practically?
@@hariranormal5584 Hmm, I don't think so unfortunately :(
I can only think of possibly using an external PCI-e riser, which you'd then possibly be able to use for SAS drive testing, although it'd be super awkward. Would be pretty incredible to use a 2.5" SAS drive inside, but personally I can't think of any practical way for it sadly. Apologies!
@@bigbluebananabread you can also use one of those adapters that have 2 ends, 1 is the cable and 1 is the power adapter plug-in. those also come in molex, although i havent tested one yet so hard to say if they work.
This drive has bad sectors?
I see in hdtune drops
@@cezarymuchowiecki8748 Luckily it's bad sector free! I'm running HDTune with the drive as the primary OS unit, so the dips are when it needs to do something else unrelated to the test. It'd have no dips if I tested it as a secondary unit, but I have to admit I was a little lazy with running it!