You have a lovely amount of excellent drives. I love those Seagate Medalist drives. 10:25 the resonance of those is probably what makes me like them so much.
Yeah they are some of my favorites, too. The motor sound is very unique. They also were some of the first drives to show a SMART status and had defect management.
the HD at 2:35 sounds like me after eating Taco bell Brrrt! Brrrt! Brrrt! Brrrt! Whoops! UOH! clench and run clench and run! funny I have a box of old, small capacity drives that I am giving to charity, and alot of the ones you showed here are the same ones. mostly out of computers that ran windows 95, back when drive and memory size didn't matter that much. they're too small for much Data storage,and Not SATA so they're not strap-able, so they're no real use any more
@@mikixyz123 many early western digital caviar drives had a push-in connector to put an LED on the PCB. If you insert an LED, it acts as an indicator light. If you have an old WD drive, the LED port is on the opposite side as the IDE connection, on the bottom of the drive
In the early 90s, a series of Kalok/Nec hard drives were produced, of a non-standard 3" size with a thickness of about one centimeter and with a non-standard interface connector.
It's something I miss these days. Not the speed nor the fragility. But the spinup and read sound...
Forget about SSDs, Gotta love the sounds of old mechanical hard drives.
PLEASE record a "Windows Defragmentation" visualisation video WITH the HDD sounds! That would be PERFECT
The humming of an old HD is one of the most relaxing sounds
2:35 that old Apple Quantum sounds like an air raid siren
Is it even working properly? My mom thinks the platter might be damaged
By "Damage" I meant scratched
I found another video of a quantum spinning up, and it sounds similar
@@denzterwastaken thats not the platter making the sound, its the motor. Theres no major damage to the platter if it does the seektest.
That quantum fireball always sounds it's gonna thrash and click itself to death but I'll be damned if they didn't last next to forever.
You have a lovely amount of excellent drives. I love those Seagate Medalist drives. 10:25 the resonance of those is probably what makes me like them so much.
Yeah they are some of my favorites, too. The motor sound is very unique. They also were some of the first drives to show a SMART status and had defect management.
@@Struukbessen Thanks for the video and info!
The days when your hard drive sounded like a jet engine spooling up
Excellent. Happy 1990 years...
Music to my ears
The power of the almighty RUclips algorithm brought me here
I love the seektest of the quantum atlas v 12:01
It's very powerful. when the drive is inside a PC or server, the whole tower is vibrating
@0:07 Sounds exactly like my old Compaq Presario when I turned it on. 16384MB Ok!
5:23 Kinda sounds like a race car.
I have caviar 21200 and it was assembled at my mom’s 23rd birthday
The one at 11:07 sounded the same as the one in my Dell Dimension 4500
9:00 i used to have this harddrive
5:18 - After Piranha, we've got her "children"... 🐟🐟🐟
oh may goosh the conner disk i have one on my times(1998)! goooooood xD i love the sound of "pdddddt"
that's exactly how to describe the sound xD
WD Piranha ? Thats one i had no idea existed. Watching these HDD videos i do tend to see A drive or 2 that i didn't know they made.
WD Piranha has a double height and 4 platters instead of 2 platters. So it had twice the capacity of a WD Caviar at that time, but was kinda expensive
What was wrong with the Caviar 31600 at 8:36 that made you open it up? O.o
(Judging by the exposed screw under the label)
This drive I have since I was a teenager and I was just curious what's inside. Luckily it's still working perfectly
@@Struukbessen woow, nice ^^
Piranha 4200 sound weird but i love it
how is it possible that the Caviar 11000 was made in September 1999? was it being used in some kind of embedded system or something?
seems so, it also has an OEM sticker. or maybe the letter after the manufacturing date means it has been recertified ('S' maybe stands for Singapore)
not many single platter caviars. the first digit is the platter count.
the HD at 2:35 sounds like me after eating Taco bell
Brrrt! Brrrt! Brrrt! Brrrt! Whoops! UOH! clench and run clench and run!
funny I have a box of old, small capacity drives that I am giving to charity,
and alot of the ones you showed here are the same ones. mostly out of
computers that ran windows 95, back when drive and memory size didn't
matter that much. they're too small for much Data storage,and Not SATA
so they're not strap-able, so they're no real use any more
The one at 0:25 is the same sounding as the one in my i386 ibm ps/2 55sx
@Компутаторный канал Жорика I didn't, it just sounds the same to the 40mb drive that is inside it (I think it is 40mb)
@negr-zorik, It's not 2.1GB. For Quantum, the storage volume is indicated on the end side of the hermoblock.
Awesome!!
I have 5:41 Caviar HD with Windows 3.11 i386DX PC.
Still work.
Why did some drives had a led on a motherboard?
to show activity while reading or writing. almost all Quantum drives had this feature
@@Struukbessen cool to know. I assume those have pins for external led diode too
Also I noticed that WD Caviar 280 and 2200 have a LED that lit for just a second
@@mikixyz123 many early western digital caviar drives had a push-in connector to put an LED on the PCB. If you insert an LED, it acts as an indicator light. If you have an old WD drive, the LED port is on the opposite side as the IDE connection, on the bottom of the drive
@@XLGaming cool!
0:28 Half Life computers
What are the specs on that WD Piranha?
double height, 4 platters, 8 heads. Benchmark and sector scan here: www.mediafire.com/view/8a15ucsyedcn9hd/WD_Piranha_4200.png/file
What is the model of the one from 0:25 ?
Quantum Bigfoot CY 2.1GB (CY2160A)
Hi! I just made a hard drive collection video!
2:32
Does the Kalok 343 still work?
No, this is the only drive of my collection that doesn't work. It's only spinning and not able to seek.
@@Struukbessen common issue with kalok drives. Sometimes they even squeal.
In the early 90s, a series of Kalok/Nec hard drives were produced, of a non-standard 3" size with a thickness of about one centimeter and with a non-standard interface connector.
I have a Bigfoot TX 8 GB.
"haha, it's thinking!"
8:25