Jet Engine in Retro Computer. Old MFM Hard Disk Spin Up Compilation & Benchmark Results 

Ironic, huh?

Sound in Alien when they go to “talk" to Mother

@@jamesmelendez9971 Exactly what I was thinking. Plus, lots of background sounds in the movies Wargames and Short Circuit.

They use ancient devices to make futuristic sound effects lol 😂

@@jamesmelendez9971 I thought exactly about this scene

Oreste Schaller 😂

Yeah, you have the power of eMMC to thank for that not happening.

The Original iPods also made quiet disk sounds...

And if you move it, it head crashes and dies.

Aifon idiots

And then gunfire in the background

The magnetic peripherals sounds like a thunderbolt weather siren... Like exactly the same.

@@dhdh2918 and morse code too

Its only a air dynamic syren, not the seconds war, its an ewery war's syren

Ultra SCSI sounds best

Welcome fellow nerd!! lol

608 mins it’s not that long

ESDI drives next please

No time wasted

Hi

at 7500 rpm

Time to zoom zoom around the block.

2:21 and blowed the crankshaft

lmaoo

Yahhh😸

I don't know why but I really like the spin ups of old hdds!

This is a source of eargasm...

Yeah, those asmr vids really creep me out.

but probably wouldn't be that fantastic if you had to hear it every day at work lol

I like these but there was also similar, and yet more intensely "jet engine" sound in many scsi hard drives in the mid to late 1990s. I remember some that had insanely high rpms , almost double or more than what these drives would reach.

It's even more incredible if you factor in its size Wouldn't even take a full minute to fill the entire hdd

Please come back in 2040:)

I can remember adding an actual Seagate ST-506 drive to my original IBM PC... A whopping **5** M... The power supply could not handle it and I had to install an external power supply with a wire going into the PC just for the hard drive... It sounded like a small turbine slowly spooling up...

@@NurAdinugraha a minute? You mean a less than a second. My drive can write 140MB/s peak.

@@Phenom98 Not at 700KB/s .. which was his point. Do the math ...

Ermmmm, did you ever been in a server center stuffed with blade servers ? A hell lot of more noise though.

There’s a channel here on RU-vid featuring lots of floppy drives, hard drives and old printers playing music.

@@pacoreguenga The Floppotron

i can imagine, would sound like mechanical heaven

I know, right? 10,000 MFM hard drives multiplied by their noise = I CANT HEAR ANYTHING. Wait, IM DEAF!!!

😂

Lol

Morse code?

😂🤣😅

Xd

Same it would be a sound i would not want to hear from any modern system.

That's exactly what I was going to post after hearing it

i was like oh no the ibm is dying :( thats a sound i never want to hear

Oh no anyway

That sound means that the HDD is in good condition, it is scary but the sound is completely normal in these units, the disk launches a test pulse to the actuator to check that it works (and produces the characteristic sound), after the test it begins to operate. This HDD has a magnetic actuator, it was a pioneer in using this type of actuator, since almost all HDDs of that time used a stepper motor actuator.

I know what you mean. To this day, my room has so much fan noises from the various comptuers, and the ventilation fans in the window, that if the power goes off, I'm wide awake instantly.

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Very funny way of getting in sleep and a very cool way that our bodies wake up to sudden changes in environment.

@@BlackEpyon I had an EA in elementary who had a daughter like that no matter the season she always absolutely positively had to have a fan running when she slept and if at any point the fan lost power or in that case the whole house you would know straight away if she's awake

@@felixf8924 Yeah, it's less that something happened and more that something major changed

Aaron Silvestri lol yes. This thing sounds crazy. Fist I thought too the heads were crashing. But the drive works fine without any failures.

my ears are exploading instead! hahaa

Sounds like an engine dynoing when it spins up.

Just like remembering long lost friends

Quite modern drives are boring also boring that cant see it i like the old drives that had windows

That's not supposed to happen. :p

Just sweet hdd noises

If you remember the times when the single only fan in the PC was the 80mm in PSU. HDD was what actually was the "computer noise". That was fun. And actually had noise level was a factor in choosing brand. WD Caviar was louder than Segate.

Or better yet, use intel stock coolers.

You know that a Coolmax V-500 power supply would to the noise trick with exploding capacitors and loud fans.

@@randalldraco3822 was there no cpu fans?

be glad you never experienced it. from a today's point of view it's kinda cool and retro. but back in the days it was just pain in the ass to get hardware running as you want it to. i mean plug and play was not a thing at this time and you needed drivers for every fucking single piece of hardware and once you installed it, something other wasn't willing to work because it was not compatible. the hours i spent just to get the machine running... pain in the ass! be happy to grow up in a time when every idiot can assemble a PC :D

@@bobabier5394 Thumbs up for that comment! I can second that - back then one must have a considerable knowledge about the hardware software generally speaking. Just for taste - IRQ's , DMA's, type of memory (OS perspective) , electricity (a lot more than present day toys), jumpers, etc, etc. In the case of harddrives - cylinders, heads, type of access and so on... Be glad you never experienced it, really! Still, from an another point of view - the base knowledge related to these technologies could be very beneficial even today. But if you are not any kind of professional, related to the IT industry, it's just a nonsense.

By Clive :-)

Guy Martin

The chassis I'm using for my i7 rig was originally a 386/486-era server chassis. It originally housed up to 7 full-height 5.25" SCSI drives or 14 half-height 5.25" (CD-ROM sized) drives. The capacities of the drives that were still working when I got it were between 4 and 9GB, but the sound was the same as these old MFM drives. Sounded like a poorly maintained jet engine starting up.

The IBM and the 1st NEC for me. Very unique. There were no losers tho ..

I love smell of burning DVDs in the morning

I still use dvds sometimes as fake mfm hard drives because they are slow and noisy lol

shitass internet gang

@@melanodis8655 yoooo the good shit

Can confirm, usually get between 64 and 540 kb/s on a rural internet connection. If it goes below 64k, the equipment starts sending data over the PSTN. Still waiting for Starlink.

@@andyk192 He means about KB/s not Kbps. Also, dial-up internet isn't even capable to offer more than 300 Kbps of transfer rate.

Rip

My dad had a 6gb one on an HP tower computer, he said that people who came over to his house could not figure out what the sound was until they found the computer, after a while he just put it into hibernation mode when people came over

yeah, old hard disk drives sounds really cool. love that too.

@@CPUGalaxy The design of the hard drive in the armada laptop is weird, it looks like a mini version of an old seagate

@@CPUGalaxy But it crashes really fast xd

Ya my bro has a mini computer from late 80's. The drives I can't even find pic of on the net. The motors are not direct drive (or should i say inline). The motor is perpendicular to the platter shaft and thus must have a 90° bevel gear set. Capacity is in the tens or low hundreds of MB range. They are pretty.

Wonder how many drives were lost due to someone forgetting and/or software failures

@@nup5 That's the problem with buying used MFM drives. Often, you get somebody just scrapping old machines, and selling whatever they think us vintage computer nerds will buy, but they have no idea what it means to park the heads.

@@BlackEpyon didn't think about that ... you could be buying a failing/dead drive, and what's worse is the seller could claim they had no idea.

@@nup5 I recently got one in an XT clone I bought a few months back. I have no idea if it actually works, or if the controller card is dead. Given that it was advertised on eBay and shipped as a parts/repair machine with known issues (that I've since fixed), I don't have much hope that it was properly parked before it was shipped. If I had more of that old stock on hand, I could find out, but I tossed most of that stuff well over a decade ago. I was planning on installing flash storage anyways, so it's not a terribly big loss for me personally, but it would be nice to see these old drives preserved instead of carelessly thrown out.

My laptop doesn’t have one! 😂 Laptop have moved toward SSDs ! Fascinating 20Mb 1990 nd 4TB currently!

In modern computers, sure. But with CF cards being used to replace failing hard drives in retro and vintage computers, this sound is becoming nostalgic.

Seeing that peeked my interest. While I've seen these drives before, I've never come across one with an external motor for moving the heads.

And nowadays our Harddrives might not sing, but 3D Printers deffinitly have lots to sing about in their stead

Hahaha, Lol, nice idea. I like that. Retro MFM Alarm 😅👍🏻👍🏻

Man if I heard my SSHD make that sound I would immediatly pull tue plug.

I thought the same when I fired up my A590 HD for my Amiga 500 after 31 years. Pretty sure a tear of joy popped out when I heard is spin into life. 😂

@@Nighterlev It did actually boot into Workbench that was installed on it. Then the spindle started to slow down as it was apparently seizing, I decided to shutdown and revisit this in the future.

memories?? damn grandpa

I honestly don’t know

was tempted to decode it but that's gibberish, also i don't know morse besides ... _ _ _ ... just in case.

Now that you mention it, I can totally hear the connection between the Anti-mass spectrometer and these drives.

yep

This is the first thing I thought of: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bwe-NUgWbzw.html

VTEC

And then you shit your pants when you hear that *THUNK* as a wrench gets launched out the back...

Cheap SSDs do, in fact, make noise.

That's a stepper. One trick to fix seek issues is to put a little 3-in-1 oil in the bearings.

I know they can't shift gears but I really want to hear them shifting up.

@@faruk4310 same it would sound better than a jdm car

noise levels of drives from 2oo3 were improved i believe

It sounded like a car

Sounds like the radio transmitters in movies.

I will :) Thx

AIO inc. Hi. I would love to make a version 2 coz I like those old HDD‘s a lot! Spinrite and SpeedStor are great tools for this old drives. How do you think to implement this in a video? Spinrite take some hours to finish an analysis and low-level formatting. Do you mean I should explain this tools?

@@CPUGalaxy SpinRite has a performance test mode, not just reinterleve and analysis. SpeedStor is similar and can seek test and controller test drives. Make it do all kinds of interesting seeks, random, T2T, butterfly, etc.

Hard drives would last even longer somehow

@@CTMKD Yeah, that's why they don't put it. And there'd be a lot of dumbasses putting shitty oils in it and then claiming warranty.

@@TuxraGamer Yeah, not to say they don't last long. I have the same WD blues that I had 10 years ago and they are spinning day and night and haven't caused a single issue.

@@CTMKD depends on the brand and the drive really,wd drives tend to be pretty reliable drives compared to a brand like seagate,at least on the consumer level im not sure about their server/enterprise stuff

I've had good luck with WD (edit: consumer grade, WD Blue) drives. 2 identical 2TB ones (RAID mirroring) lasted well over a decade, then one crapped.

Part of what makes me love my 3D printer these days, she sings with her stepper motors when she's got a job to do!

😂👍🏻

A gyroscope is used to measure the pitch, yaw, roll, relative to a fixed reference point (where it started spinning). These are used for inertial navigation. What you're thinking of are "reaction wheels."