My Vintage Hard Drive Collection - The Sounds of 50+ Hard Drives in 20 Minutes 

CORRECTION: The Maxtor Atlas 10K IV is 36GB, not 32.

Finally, a collector who has an IBM 171MB disk, which I had with an Amiga 500 computer (with an additional external HDD controller). It was a really loud disk, with an additional sound effect - depending on which cylinders the heads were operating on, but perhaps the second problem with this additional noise is was the fault of a specific example. In any case, the drive performed well and was resold 3 years later. A year before the sale, it was replaced by WD Caviar 850MB, which I have kept to this day and is also featured in this film. As a former seller/servicer, I say that you should treat an HDD like an egg. How durable it will be depends on what micro-injuries and stronger impacts it will be exposed to before installation (on the way from the distributor to installation in the housing).

19:31 LOL The helicopter has taken off!!

1:27 I love how this one literally sounds like it semi truck 😂

2:43 : This HDD sound maybe can be used to test the Woofer driver 😅

I kinda like how the older Seagate and Miniscribe HDDs make a loud harmony. I could recreate that harmony by just hearing the notes.

Quite a few 1999 - 2001 drives produced late for their size when drives twice or more of their capacity were common.

You seriously have a lovely collection, so many interesting drives. Nicely varied too, huge kudos :) Definitely very hard to pick a favourite!

That's a nice collection of old drives! Thank you for mentioning me in the description.

I love listening to these drives spin up and down. Thanks for uploading !

Love it! If I tried to make a video of all my drives it would be 6+ hours long 🤣

I have to say, my favorite sounding one is the Quantum Bigfoot, I'm not even sure why.

Flashbacks! I handled, installed, the vast majority of these.

Love those old Conners

The Toshiba MK4026GAX has an estimated release of 04 January 2006 🙂

Cool collection! I really like the drives that sound a little hollow and airy like the Seagate ST351A/X at 7:45

Good video, subbed!

Drive at 2:40 is a tandon drive. WDC bought Tandon.

Amazing job on the video! Although I will say, a few of the drives sound like they have issues initializing, for example the Quantum ProDrive 105S sounds like it has a sticking rubber bumper which is a known issue on those brick style one's as well. Also the Piranha 4200 sounds not normal since it just does two clicks, although those are so hard to come by it could be normal, I'm not sure! Also I absolutely LOVE those Seagate Medalist drives and the Medalist Pro you have! You have an incredible amount of great drives, thanks for sharing : ))

I love hdd sounds

Wasn't the WD93044-A the first IDE hard disk? The 8245SA can't find track 0. It needs to be low-level formatted.

6:26 How are they constructed to sound like that? They turn on and off and then they turn on with a whining noise and then the "nitro" kicks in.

That Conner Filepro Advantage (CFA170A) doesn't sound too healthy with that overspinning...

Nice video, this was really fun to watch. I'm wondering, do these drives actually work properly? Can you write to them and read from them without issues?

I have a pretty sizeable collection of older WD, Conner, Seagate and Quantum drives but never owned any new. Were they always noisy like this or is it compounded by age of the bearings and other internal parts? These sound amazing by the way.

Older, I mean Vintage HDD Sound, is almost like Engine 😅 I listen it with my earphone, though 😅

Do any of these overheat?

Can you do the sounds of SSD drives?!