Huge vintage monster hard drive

[kimchee94112]

I had some large drives (2x full form factor) and wasn't that loud. I don't remember if I ever had had an old drive failure. Things were built to last then. I have a few new drive failures though.

[bmuscotty88]

GORILLLA.BAS

[mgh6x37]

quantum right?



[lazermunky25]

What was that made for?

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

@lazermunky25 it was made to work :-) ok, this drive has an intresting cooling concept, i think it was made for a server... i have a similar drive

[lazermunky25]

@Messerschmitt262a2a hmm. I see. I have never seen such a monstrous drive before XD

[destrierofdark]

That's a nice engine there, mate.

[gwally9]

love that spin up noise as she prepares for action....

ah the good ole' days - remember my big 20MB SCSI drive - must have weighted 5 pounds, but was HUGE and fast.

[MrLethalfire]

What are you, a hard drive hipster?

[DACIIANDATACORE]

brings back memorys of my first build

[greenbaritos]

wow hard to believe drives were once that big look at them now a days

[kirbyyasha]

Back in the day, 80 MB was all you needed. Ahhh the good ol' days.

[estlib]

@kirbyyasha i got half a terabyte packed into mine. and its still not enough D:

[arshdeep125]

@estlib are you talking about your new computer or vintage? Xd lol cause my currently new computer has almost 8 terabytes of SATA Harddrive space! :D And 8gb Random Access Memory (RAM) lol

[estlib]

@arshdeep125 new and WOW O_O thats alot! i wish i had you pc

[arshdeep125]

@estlib Lol Well I'm planning on spending $15,000 on building a brand new computer, It'll most likely have the most state of the art components.

[estlib]

@arshdeep125 i wish i had that kind of money ;_;

[arshdeep125]

@estlib Actually I'm not going to be using the computer for gaming, Mostly for the Resource Based Economy. We will need a lot of high end super powered computers to do a lot of data work in order to understand how the new Non Monetary system would work at optimum level and for the benefit of man kind globally. :D I don't want a WWIII as the next guy, so a peaceful transition from money/greed/slavery based system to a free/collective/energy saving system for everyone.

[estlib]

@arshdeep125 well i guess you have yours and i have mine =D

but i still wish i had money like that to get a laptop atleast ;_;

[XENEXHACKER]

OMG ! IF THIS HUGE PEASE OF METAL IS 80 MB STORAGE WHAT WOULD BE A 1GB PHONE IN THE PAST ????????

[Brent1170]

I agree it does sound like a car! Or maybe a suped up vacuum cleaner!

[ply61]

HAHAHA SOUNDS LIKE A SPORT CAR¡

[ishigoto]

We come a long way baybeh

[MrFixer1983]

Is it a car,no,is it a plane,no it is a very old hard drive :D

[behknqruxy]

i love anything vintage

[computerinternetcom]

lol

[shoprat17]

lol we found some crazy old hard drive from some big data base or something that had to weigh about 175 pounds and was about 3 feet long and 2 feet wide...

[221Kristaps]

How many gb his have?

[dragoncaretaker94]

@221Kristaps Try 80 Megabytes

[kiyotewolf]

@221Kristaps

It has 0.078125 GB

Only 7% of a GB.

[MrMerlinss]

this is gud......is that realy working....Nice one

[winfan1000]

Bad sound

[godivaboy]

That's the normal sound for an old MFM drive.

[viperarc]

does it works still? can you use it?

[1972jeepcommando]

can you still use it?

[MrDemilord]

omg thatsa huge airplane

[faxmanloveswaffles]

Woah! Did I just hear a Jet Plane above my house!??!?

[lilgoomba]

Hah, stupid old technology. Those things took almost 20 seconds to boot into DOS.  Modern computers with their modern hard drives take only 5 minutes.

[ThePCgamer1989]

turn that hoover off in the background :D

[Tylenole]

Its a mfm/rll drive from the late 80's to early 90's and they were awsome and loud

[HumzaAhmed155]

vacuum cleaner?



[bhkidd]

Climb and maintain 5000, expect flight level 240 10 minutes after departure. Expect runway 19L for departure. Squawk 4354.

[linuxuser432]

imagine how much ASCII porn can be stored on this

[TOTORIALSFOROLDPEEPS]

How many KB'S ☺

[fancysnake1]

@TOTORIALSFOROLDPEEPS don't even ask if i could be in the description

[Jokes0nce95]

MAN THATS MY SSC ULTIMATE AERO TAKIN OFF AT 280 MPH

[DementedHoundour]

*sighs nostalgically* I remember those days when I would be too sacred to turn on the computer because it made that noise.

[Ratznium]

Man, old computers sound way more badass when they power up.

[allaboutnostalgia]

what are you trying to do evacuate the neighborhood? it sounds like an air raid siren.lol

[Batwariors13]

Oh my god... I want one.

[treborpoop]

What brand is this ?

it looks like Micropolis

[kpdrives]

@treborpoop I'm pretty sure that is a CDC drive (Control Data Corporation). May have additional company names on the label such as Magnetic Peripherals, Imprimis, and/or Seagate Technology. Back then there were many acquisitions being made by hard drive companies. Most likely it is a 94155-86 (ST4086) or a 94155-96 (ST4097) if it a MFM. Though could be an ESDI.

[bongeholeboy]

u can still run dsl Linux on that thing!!!!

[retrogamerSam]

@bongeholeboy But why would you WANT to? Linux sucks.

[friskeym]

@retrogamerSam Linux is awesome

[retrogamerSam]

@friskeym it fried my parent's computer.

[666RedDemon]

Is that the new generation of hard drive in the next future!! lol nice video.

[JDTV1995]

0:41 Flight 77091 you are clear for take-off!

[munfmunf4boisdinner]

oh man those were the days you got your first computer then your parents made you go to bed. then you got up quietly to turn on the thing and your parents woke up thinking we were about to be bombed. yes those were the days

[CmdrTobs]

@munfmunf4boisdinner lol you're forgetting stashing nudi pics in obscure directories....

[munfmunf4boisdinner]

@CmdrTobs oh computers. . . .

[miviezgeneration]

that is a big drive, almost as big and loud as one of mine, too bad it was thrown out

[TheWindows982]

Thats Air Asia Line Airplane sound in the beginning. 0:38 until 0:51

[Ltb0b]

Holy mcpoopsaur

[rezn66]

Put Win98 on it! Probably the only thing it will run.

[Ragezort]

@rezn66 get your computer and throw it with your Windows. =_=

[the731272]

@rezn66 not even 80mb you could have win 2.03 or 3.1 possibly 95

[bongeholeboy]

@the731272 no 95 is like 200mbs or something like that so problem dos 

[the731272]

@bongeholeboy i'm talking about rpm

[ZVONIMIR111]

@bongeholeboy Maybe not, diskette edition of Windows 95 requires about 40 MB of space

[ZVONIMIR111]

@bongeholeboy Mine shows 22.5 MB.

[Aqwert76]

honda i-vtec engine

[dinglenutzz]

ahhh...back in the days of having to "park" your HD......memorys.......lol

[douro20]

Older rotating target X-ray tubes used the same type of bearings...

[zeeman674]

Whats the rpm on that? 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­0?

[tehbbqbox0r]

@zeeman674

Probably 3600 RPM.

[DragonFlyback256]

@tehbbqbox0r

Sounds more like 7200 rpm to me... But i'm not 100% certain in that.

[the731272]

@DragonFlyback256 no probably 3600 -4200

[zeeman674]

Airbus A380(largest plane in the world atm. :P) Cleared for take off.

[gunman5550531]

Damn, sounds like race car.

[syncmaster710n14]

I have a 42 MB IBM drive I have been trying to access with a usb to IDE adapter but i think the drive is to old. it just spins up and does nothing

[douro20]

@syncmaster710n14

Needs to be ATA compliant.

[macospat]

sounds like a 737 LOL

[justin20204]

Oshitoshitoshit, SHE'S GONNA BLOW!!

[DURAMATRIX112]

what kind of hard drive is this?

[nelizmastr]

is it E-IDE or SCSI?

[linuxlove4004]

I'd guess neither. I think this drive uses something even older than that called MFM.

Not certain but I think it does.

[bogdanmihai58]

Err...you can use that wreck with a modern PC ??!!!

[the731272]

@bogdanmihai58 80mb? no but you can like take data off it teat it stuff like that

[MICKMOFFAT]

sounds like a fishing reel at the start and then a winch fk that

[thechar911]

sounds like a car...

[ccraig412]

IT takes what... 80 watts to drive this thing? lol

[elZunamie]

a spaceship tarned as a hard drive? XD

[awwkool]

80mb thats a lie they olny have like 2kb 4 kb 8kb up to 512 kb at the time so mabey it was a 256 kb hardrive

[madmax2069]

@awwkool most of these old HDDs had like 5mb and up in the 70's and 80's. a floppy disk held in kb sizes. A 3340 Winchester held 35 MBytes of data (and that was in 1973). This drive is newer then a 3340.

[petfood56]

rofflmao XD XD XD

[OtisFreight]

C-5 Galaxy, You are Clear for Takeoff.

[lkchild]

Thats a normal 5/14 full hieght drive. Hard disks come way bigger. I have a disk next to me that's the same size as the system unit pedastal it attaches to (Sun 2 with external SMD disk enclosure) and one of my firends has a mainframe drive thats the same size as a washing machine.....

[Glockenator]

Now you get 20x as much memory in something the size of a battery.

[linuxrobotdude]

thats still better than the 20MB in my Dell 316LT

[RavinTekman]

when i was around 4 years old, a school i went to just got some custom built all-in-one intel systems(unsure which), there was ribbon cable attachments on the back for some 5-1/2" floppy drives, the things where loud booting dos, a technitian pulled one of these drives out of the back of one to replace it.

[TheMike894ftw]

o_O

[Dant2142]

That's an MFM hard drive I believe, it had to have separate connections for power, data, and for the computer to control it.

[joukam]

lol it sounds like a small jet engine

[jeremysart]

Wow, I though my old Quantum Bigfoot 5.25 series was huge lol. That was the first HD I bought from a PC repair shop when I started building PCs. It stored 2 gigs, that was HUGE back then, haha.. no you can get a 2 gig micro SD chip a dime a dozen.

[scott93257]

I remember when the first 1 Gigabyte hard drive came out...I was thinking "There is no way that anyone could ever use that much LOL" Yeah right

[TheGeek1028]

And now we have people with (multiple) 2 TB hard drives asking for more space.

[scott93257]

Yeah it's outrageous isn't it :) I mean I can see that much for extensive audio/video editing...But 2 TB should be plenty :)

[TheGeek1028]

...or music from every single artist out there in lossless :P

[immuki]

lossless makes me mad. one song is, like 400MB :<

[scott93257]

I actually have an old Seagate ST3243A laying around...as far as I know it still works... it came out of my first computer...an old 386..

maybe I will see if it spins up one of these days...I believe it's 213 MB

[edmoil12]

It's just the changing ways we use computers as technology permits. Back when this thing came out they didn't have video editing on computers, they didn't even have music on computers; music was something that was stored on tapes. Now with HD and 3D video, people have always been finding ways to push the current technology to the limit.

[immuki]

that was only about 4 years ago.... everyone over the age of 15 remembers that

[scott93257]

My sister had an old packard bell back in 1993. It had a 1 Gigabyte drive... They've been around a little longer than 4 years...

[scott93257]

My sister had an old packard bell back in 1993. It had a 1 Gigabyte drive... They've been around a little longer than 4 years... By the way your new gaming computer is SICK!!! What are the specs on it?

[immuki]

well, off the top of my head, it has an AMD 965 140 watt processor (3.9GhZ OC), a 700W OCZ PSU, an AZZA 202 case (20 dollars on newegg, amazing), a spinQ CLP0554 heatsink, and a 790gx-gd70 motherboard with 3gb of ddr3 1333 ram. the graphics card is some ancient 256 mb ddr2 graphics card, but it runs crysis on all the highest setting very smoothly, despite that.

[baneskrbic]

Can you play GTA4 on this thing?

[SixthtySixthSix]

full height...

loud on spin-up...

80mb was pretty good size...

[AIAZISten]

kinda envy all of you who had computers for so long

it must be intresting experiencing htem like that

i just can't imagine going from 20 mb to litle shits like 1tb hd

[Tubeboy732]

I had one of those...it was 20mb

[ScottieNiven]

How much for the drive?

[greenvines7]

That thing would scare the shit out of me.

[seagatenogood]

it was a hard drive with about 10 platters and it was in server pc's in 1990 to 1999

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

that were cool hard drives, i wish them back! but maybe my cell phone is more powerful than those servers in the early 90´s and needs less energy

[pinger56]

maybe that hard drive used on some laptops back then. :-)

[pinger56]

that's like starting a jet engine...

[moneykidz1]

0:41 I though it was gonna blow up.

[michaelboett173]

u forget to park the harddisk...bbuuuhh.....:)

[pmgodfrey]

- @michaelboett173 -

Ahhh.....the park.exe file we'd all have to execute when shutting down because some drives didn't do it automatically.

There might be an earth quake and you're computer might tip over and you'll lose all your data!!!!!!

Data that took weeks to download at 1200 baud.

[workensmart]

I had an old 286 computer that sounded like that but I think the hard drive was 20MB LOL.

[shockleyjacob]

i thought it was gonna blow up

[heatherandpaul2]

I want to download that sound> I love it. I want it to load when I start windows. haha

[CheatEnginer]

Lol 3 times bigger than todays hard drives, with only 80 MB, 10000000.... times less than today :)

[deathworm101]

wow, that's loud. notice the heads bounce when powered off

[alphadog1x]

With old drives you used to have to 'park' the heads before moving the computer at all. They used to sit right over the HDD platters and could actually physically HIT the platters if they weren't parked. AAahh, the good 'old days.

[SixthtySixthSix]

beautiful piece of hardware... operational? surface defects?

finding a low-level formatter won't be easy? with 80mb, you could populate dos And windows! :P Of course, if you are a debugger, 80mb will cause that long stare real quick...

[LibertadorXXL]

Boeing 777 cleared fo take off

[qopha]

@LibertadorXXL More like an Airbus 380.

[Thieftastic]

What does he use as a trigger to turn it on?

[woutvgelder]

it's a old psu i think

[FerralVideo]

AT-class power supply.

When they got away from the "big red switch on the side" style, they instead had a heavy switch that mounted in the front for your power button.

He's using that switch to turn it on.

[FerralVideo]

I've got one older, similar size, only holds 30 megs. Also noisy as all getout. I'll post a video reply if I get a chance.

[TheMCMXXL]

I have one too, same size, holds 10 Megs, MFM like this one.

[PinkSilverWolf]

that sound like a Old 2GB seagate that came out of one them old Power PC All In ones Mac computer

[UprisingMuse]

80 MB LOL

[Andreazor]

0:41 Houston we have take-off!

[crator007]

@Andreazor They say lift-off :/

[pmgodfrey]

I used to have several of the 5.25" full height drives in my computer. I also remember having an 80 meg hard drive. Paid $900 for it back in the early 90's and thought I'd never fill it up! Now a terabyte doesn't sound big.

While that may be "vintage" it isn't the largest in size class.

[an65001]

its a seagate.

[Mrphilip22]

lol it sounds like a car

[yodan001]

start copying some files onto it then we'll see how loud it really is

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

hmm the head is very silent compared to the drive... you can hear the head for a bit

[Lachlant1984]

Wow, this old hard disks sure take a while to spin up, compare that to the 80 GB Seagate drive in my PC witch starts up in under 3 seconds. It sounds like a jet fighter taking off.

[produKtNZ]

Weirdly, the bearings seem to be in OK condition :D

[anakinseviltwin]

Flicht 230, you are clear for takeoff!

[uiop988]

lol the us should save money and use old discarded hard drives as tornado sirens

[hellstudios]

lmao

[daand12]

Seagate???

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

i am sure it is a seagate... the only poissibility not being a seagate would be that my one is a seagate made model from another firm (like the western digital made tandons and ibms, just with wd cover)

[daand12]

I'm sure it's a seagate simulair with your drive

[ShamblerDK]

I forgot to mention that all harddrives made today incorporates this automatic head park feature :-)

Okay, I'll stop spamming now :-P

[ShamblerDK]

You'll notice that the "clickety-click"-noise actually comes right after the moment the power goes away. This is because the harddrive uses the energy, caused by the momentum of the plates, to park the heads :-)

[ShamblerDK]

The last "clickety-click" you hear when he turns it off is the read/write heads parking. They introduced that feature back in the days so you can safely transport a computer containing a harddrive without worrying about the heads crashing into the plates during transit. Back in DOS 3.3, and below, there's actually a DOS-command that's called "park". This command was used for parking the heads on harddrives not capable of doing so on their own.

[guy990]

Sounds like an Airplane engine starting...

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

for anyone, who don´t belive that it can be a seagate, now i got a similar one... watch my videos!

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

also, the drive in this video is upside down

[msdos622wasfun]

Size DOES matter!

[psivewri]

I had one like that!

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

it´s a seagate, i am sure! maybe with rll-interface but it also can be mfm

[an6500]

No its either a micropolis or generic.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

i am sure! i will get a seagate which looks exactly like that drive (maybe it even sounds like it)

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

hey who did vote me bad? i will get a seagate which exactly looks like THAT! (then i just have to test how it sounds like)

[dodykid4ever]

fuckin hell that thing sounded like a sped up grudge at the begining! wouldn't like to use that in an unlit room at midnight! lol

[Medessec]

Legacy hardware... yeh gotta love it.

[geardawg4794]

DAYUM.

So loud and so nostalgic.

[waydeewaydee]

I'd stand well back lol

[FischiPiSti]

Sounds like it wants to take off, and fly away