HDD startup sounds are just as cool as car engine startups in my opinion. The Hitachi Deskstar at 3:58 is especially awesome, it sounds like a UFO taking off!
Hard to believe that in a few more years, these sounds may never be heard again in real computers. I still remember the sound of my first hard drive -- an 85MB Maxtor. Talk about an epic startup sound! Every time you powered on the PC, you'd swear the case would explode at any second.
I just bough a 3tb wd blue drive the other day because my ssd was too small. Hard drives will stay around for a while longer just because they still have better price per gigabyte
Maybe HDD's will cease to be included in home computers and laptops if they can't provide a good enough advantage in price / GB, but time will show that. SSD prices have fallen a lot more quickly than HDD prices in the last 10 years, so HDD's need to really pick up the pace or they will be left behind in maybe the next few years. There seems to have been serious stagnation in the progress of HDD prices per GB since the floods in Thailand (in 2011?) which damaged their production facilities.
That's only for home computing though, I don't believe that HDDs will cease to be used in a datacentre setting during the next few decades, since tape storage hasn't died out in that use either.
@@yourbigfan1777 Dunno about that, I have bad experiences of the lifespan of MicroSD cards, but good experiences of both SSD's and HDD's. My first SSD is still in use without problems after 9 years.
Thanks for recording such clear sounds! It's been a while since I had a HDD, and the loud startup sound on my 2TB Barracuda scared me, but this video has reassured me. Guess my old HDD were all just smaller and had slower (and quieter) startups
I just made my first build not too long ago and i had a 2tb HDD for storage and was freaking out about these sounds, thinking I damaged them or something! now that I know its normal, ive come to really appreciate them, it just sounds so cool. Thanks for the vid! for giving me peace of mind and letting me hear all sorts of HDD startup sounds, great stuff
This is very relaxing. I just loved the startup sound of hard drive especially the older one (even better when combined with a floppy drive seek sound). The amount of engineering goes into making hard drives always amazes me. Please make more videos, cheers!
you take very good care of your hard drives, I have a wd blue drive being held in with 1 screw holding down for dear life all these years and it works, those engineers are really good at making storage
That Maxtor drive and the 2009ish 1 TB WD Green drive are both very nostalgic sounds for me. My first two computers that I ever did much with had those drives in them. :)
I remember the hard drive in my first laptop at school, it sounded so unique. So very loud, with a lovely grown as the heads moved. She took about 30 seconds to spin down again
Hey thanks! This was all recorded with a Zoom H6 using the X-Y microphones. The mics were placed less than an inch away from the drives. Glad you enjoyed!
Man, i recently changed my hhd for a m.2 (it had the o.s. on it) and im gonna tell you, i already miss all the buzzing it made. It gave my pc a sense of "old school" or something like that, after all, all my old desktops had an hdd on them, so i got used to the noise, and the slowness. I still have a 1tb hdd tho, so i didnt lose everything.
As an owner of many old WD and Segate drives that I bought along time ago, I could confirm 2 things. One they sound good and two that they were expensive because I got the higher capacity.
5:34 the Maxtor 7L250S0 250gb I also got that drive in 2006 from a Sony Vaio Machine it's been an absolute trooper No bad sectors yet this drive has out lasted most of my other drives and I use the drive almost daily today
Awesome Video! I was looking for the noise level of a WD hard drive because I wanted one. I got the WD Blue WD10EZEX and other than the airflow noise, I can’t even tell that it’s there!
Looking at all these drives working perfectly makes me feel really well into investing into HDDs instead of going full SSD. I've got 10TB worth of drives in my personal rig and I'm planning on purchasing 80TB more over the next couple years.
Well... they're all the same nowadays. Toshiba therefore tend to be my go-to, due to their relatively more interesting HDDs and sometimes cheaper prices.
2:27 = I still have mine in good conditions. Actually, I have two GNU/Linux partitions that I often use for avoid to pulls out life cycles instead of use my Windows partition.
2:27 I had a 750GB Barracuda with that same exact startup sound!!! I remember it like it was yesterday! It was an old drive, 3 platters at 250GB each, ran hot, and only SATA gen 2... or 3 gbps. I think the DoM was sometime back in 2007... I forget, drive has been scrapped for over 2 years by now. Wasn't a bad drive, but sadly I can confirm Seagate's reputation for faulty models. That Barracuda failed on me with a horrific head crash. Was using PC normally, wasn't even doing intensive work on the drive itself. I was playing a video game (installed on a separate SSD, btw). Next thing I know a HORRIFIC noise comes from the tower and computer freezes up from I/O errors. That's all I clearly remember from that day, unfortunately.
It does! I have the WD10EZEX drive and a lot of Seagates make WD sounds. I have a 320GB Seagate with a spindle sound like the ST3500630AS, the spinup of a WD1200JS, the isle of a Seagate, and the spindown of the WD1200JS.
@@matttesterman4199 Well, I certainly would be interested in whether an optical drive really could make a sound like this. It's not something I'd ever expect.
had the exact same deskstar. careful with that one. the platters are stupid heavy compared to most drives and even the slighted twerk while on will cause issues.
Oh those caviar green 1tb are the most reliable drive I’ve seen so far. Bought them new 2010 been used in my main pc up until a few months ago. Both are still in perfect status
If you get an SSD, then they are gone. And so is your storage space. And money. You can also use foam on the sides of the drive and HP’s rubber screws.
The simple, effective and expensive answer is to get an SSD. Why would you want to though, I don't know, since the sound is half the fun. 2.5" drives are much quieter than 3.5"s, at the expensive of some extra cost and possible SMR (look for WD5000LPCX, Toshiba MQ01ABF050/HDWK105 or Toshiba MQ01ABD100/HDWJ110 for non-SMRs).
@@EverNight76 Frankly I do enjoy the HDD noise, but I do recognise that not everyone does. Since you said you wanted to "prevent these sounds", the only way to completely do so is to get a drive that is completely devoid of moving parts, aka an SSD. I do operate plenty of HDDs with equally epic spin up sounds though.
Es una belleza pero es demasiado pesado y muy sensible a las vibraciones,tengo uno de 500gb que por no poner dos tornillos tiene 23 sectores dañados,por suerte la cifra no ha subido desde 2015 el resto está practicamente perfecto
