Sadly you will not see on this channel shots (like others) of open drives, destroying them, and other such trifles. But I will give you the opportunity to listen to some interesting, simple, popular or vintage discs while they work. For example (at this time) installation of: ubuntu, Windows, Windows Server, or other Unix systems. I'm not planning any funny moments (but who knows, maybe one day there will be). There will be specials (and there are already) lasting even several hours from the disk I have drawn. As you can see in the playlists, some disks are too small for Ubuntu systems, so other systems (Windows, Unix, etc.) are installed. I hope you enjoy it.
That WD red drive looks identical to a 4TB black drive i bought at walmart that holds my music, downloads, and B&B episodes. Its quiet and i hardly ever hear it running.
I also had one of those quantum ST's . However it was failing as during normal operation it would start banging the heads around. Eventually it wouldn't even complete it's seek test. a shame though.
Also that D740X i found that same drive in a dumpster inside a computer, i took the drive out of it, brought it home, dried the PCB out (was raining) and hooked it up, it worked fine, no issues. I believe i used it as a primary drive in a secondary PC i had. It was fast and quiet. I like the head parking noise it makes on shutdown and the whine.
It's interesting that the Maxtor 4D040H2 drive sounds the same as the old maxtors of back then (before the d740x, d540x and DM9). I had a few of those drives including one that had VERY loud bearings but it worked. Just very loud and annoying.
Yes, these quantum drives are pretty old and their interface may not be supported by your adapter, you need an actual old computer with an IDE controller to test them.
@@hddasmr2749 The drive should not struggle when you're saving bios settings, it might be something else. Also the motherboard has to be from like 2000-2002 or something for a better chance, this is due to differences in drives, older drives use CHS and newer drives use LBA.
@@OpenGL4.6 i was talking about motherboard. It was not connected while i tried to save BIOS settings. And yes it is from round 2000s. When i took it out from my grandmas old computer it looked dusty as f**k and some caps were bulged.
Holy s**t it works! it got detected by BIOS on new motherboard that i bought. I did a full surface scan and it has no bad sectors which is f*****g awesome since it is so rare and old
I like the spindown and headpark noise of the D740x. Those were the quantum/maxtor mix drives made right after the acquisition of quantum. Fast and quiet!. I also had a 800JB and the D540X maxtor as well. The D540X maxtor shown here always was super noisy (bearings). I had one that was so loud that the drive could be heard over all other noise. meaning you couldnt even hear yourself think.
i grew up with Windows 95 and Quantum Fireball, i'll never forget those sounds :') 7:55 i know this sound very well too, my video archive drive is the ST31000528AS and has those sounds too!
9 videos on one drive is a bit much in my opinion. All versions of ubuntu have the same fundamental boot sequence, so the sound isn't very different when booting different versions.
Yeah, but I have so much of them that i dont know what to do with them, and bored out of my mind I'm just recording booting sounds. sometimes i revord booting sound of window, unix, or other systems
My HP Pavilion Pentium 233 mhz desktop had a 4GB Bigfoot TX in it but it died one day "klunk,klunk,klunk" and spun down. HP replaced with a 40GV deathstar that lasted awhile then died to the scratch of death.
I remember alot of these older drives... Especially the fireballs. Alot of those models (LCT, etc) were put in HP Pavilion desktops. I remember the Klunk, Whineeeeeeeeee when spinning down.
Who can forget the first gen VelociRaptors, who sadly have gone just as extinct as their turkey-sized brethern? Codenamed Viking, these were the final Caviar MCU generation drives, and the only ones to use both Caviar MCUs and ramp loading (most others are Marvell-based).
I have the AV version of this drive, the WD1600AVJS-63WNA0, and I'm quite fond of it. It's done 81,000 hours in a Foxtel iQ picked off the kerb, and yet it still functions just fine.
