sounds like the head got out of the park position, when i got one of my st251, it also sounded like that... i don´t understand how the drive can´t be parket correct because it does autopark... maybe moving the drive?
The old Miniscribes (5.25 frame with a 3,5 drive) that had an external rotary wiper that spun around were really weird sounding drives. I like the tweet of the ST-225's. Had a 5.25" FH drive in an old IBM PS/2 model 80 that would dim the lights as it growled during run up. I think that one was ESDI or maybe SCSI.
That kinda reminds me of a newer Seagate harddrive I had. My first real PC with Diablo II game on and so on. Windows 98, 40GB harddrive Seagate. 512 DDR and a Intel Celeron 1.0 GHZ (if I remember correctly) - Bought from a old Computer Café actually, which did go bankrupt back in the 90's. Back then I didn't know shit about hardware. It did make a similar sound because of the two blades inside did hit each other. I kinda miss the startup beeping sound however. Hehe.
You should hear the 5.25" Quantum 40MB SCSI on the Apple IIgs. On shutdown it makes a loud clicking braking noise now. After 20 years of service, I'm still surprised it works.
@NJRoadfan Old Quantums are strange. I had a Quantum 240LPS IDE drive that would periodically "recalibrate" itself while it was running, with the same head seek test it does when you first turn it on. It started out doing this once every 30 seconds or so while it was cold, and then as it warmed up the calibrations would get less and less frequent. Data transfer would basically stop dead in its tracks while it was recalibrating. I've never heard any other drive do such a thing.
@vwestlife The 120MB Quantum 2.5" SCSI drive in the Powerbook 165 I revived does that. Its a sign that the drive is near its end. This was after I had to slam it against the floor a few times to get it going again from striction after 10 years of hibernation. Nothing like good ol' percussive maintenance to wake up old computer parts.
I remember hearing a noise like that on an old IBM compatable Tandy computer similar to this one, most notable the sound at 0:15 and it had the same exact style grille with the LED on the hard drive. It was older than yours and the screen was a monochrome green screen fed by a standard composite video signal and I played typing tutor on it. That game was on a 5.25 floppy disk. It ran DOS 4.25.
@themaritimeman There were some full-height IBM hard drives which made a "pin dropping" sound when the heads unparked. That is also unique, but this Seagate drive puts on a whole show!
@MrComputerfan The ST277R is the RLL-certified version of the ST251. The mechanics are the same, but the RLL version was made with higher quality control of the disk surface, allowing it to be safely formatted with 26 sectors per track instead of 17, giving it about 50% more capacity. MFM and RLL drives were sold side-by-side for many years, until the IDE standard took over.
That is a noise I will never forget! Those drives also make a very unique groaning noise when the stepper motor drifts far enough out of calibration that the drive has trouble finding locations on disk.
My dad had an ST-251 (MFM instead of RLL) in his Zenith PC clone, and I'd go down to the basement each day to start it, so that his fax program would work. Being a second grader at the time, I thought it was just The Coolest Thing Ever.
@uxwbill These drives also make a very strange "Jake Brake" noise when you turn them off. When power is removed, the spindle motor turns into a generator, and supplies enough current to activate the stepper motor and park the heads.
You can tell it's a Seagate!
desktopgeek98 3 weeks ago
Sounds like a Vespa!
bmacri 1 month ago
dubstep
RABZnet 1 month ago
when it did that beep beep beep beep sound i thought it was going to blow up
gmk120 1 month ago
sounds like the head got out of the park position, when i got one of my st251, it also sounded like that... i don´t understand how the drive can´t be parket correct because it does autopark... maybe moving the drive?
Messerschmitt262a2a 1 month ago
Sounds like a car starting
Productions151 1 month ago
prepare to be assimilated! resistance is futile!
lmull3 1 month ago
Older drive seek sounds . Oh and the bearings are bad.
quantumbits 1 month ago
Take cover! It is going to explode!!!! :0
dantheiphoneman 1 month ago
dead hdd lol
thealmosthdchannel 1 month ago
A hard drive imitating the big wheel on The Price is Right. Well, that's what I thought of when I heard it spin up...
linuxlove4004 2 months ago 2
The old Miniscribes (5.25 frame with a 3,5 drive) that had an external rotary wiper that spun around were really weird sounding drives. I like the tweet of the ST-225's. Had a 5.25" FH drive in an old IBM PS/2 model 80 that would dim the lights as it growled during run up. I think that one was ESDI or maybe SCSI.
rhblakeman 2 months ago
sounds like a bomb about to blow up
daewooparts 2 months ago
It sounds a little like the alien signal from the movie Independence Day.
BLUamnEsiac 2 months ago
What interface connector does this drive use?
MixerVM 2 months ago
@MixerVM MFM and RLL drives use a 34-pin control cable and a 20-pin data cable.
vwestlife 2 months ago
Cool! I'd wan't this drives like woot!
TheComputerNerd0101 2 months ago
That kinda reminds me of a newer Seagate harddrive I had. My first real PC with Diablo II game on and so on. Windows 98, 40GB harddrive Seagate. 512 DDR and a Intel Celeron 1.0 GHZ (if I remember correctly) - Bought from a old Computer Café actually, which did go bankrupt back in the 90's. Back then I didn't know shit about hardware. It did make a similar sound because of the two blades inside did hit each other. I kinda miss the startup beeping sound however. Hehe.
TheEposify 2 months ago
Oh, old hard drives....
I have a semi-working Quantum. I'm having troubles getting it to be recognized, but it is very whiney.
AmEv7fam 2 months ago
That is a bit unusual even for an old Seagate!
bbishoppcm 2 months ago
You should hear the 5.25" Quantum 40MB SCSI on the Apple IIgs. On shutdown it makes a loud clicking braking noise now. After 20 years of service, I'm still surprised it works.
NJRoadfan 2 months ago
@NJRoadfan Old Quantums are strange. I had a Quantum 240LPS IDE drive that would periodically "recalibrate" itself while it was running, with the same head seek test it does when you first turn it on. It started out doing this once every 30 seconds or so while it was cold, and then as it warmed up the calibrations would get less and less frequent. Data transfer would basically stop dead in its tracks while it was recalibrating. I've never heard any other drive do such a thing.
vwestlife 2 months ago
@vwestlife The 120MB Quantum 2.5" SCSI drive in the Powerbook 165 I revived does that. Its a sign that the drive is near its end. This was after I had to slam it against the floor a few times to get it going again from striction after 10 years of hibernation. Nothing like good ol' percussive maintenance to wake up old computer parts.
NJRoadfan 2 months ago
that take me back
FrozenParanormalwolf 2 months ago
sounds like dubstep lol
coolbluelights 2 months ago
This is a sign your stepper motor needs oil. Its working too slow.
an65001 2 months ago
@an65001 It is only "extra beepy" when the drive is cold. If it has been used within the past few hours, the seek test runs faster.
vwestlife 2 months ago
That sounded exactly like Matthew Broderick's computer dialer in WarGames! :D
Fuzy2K 2 months ago
WOW! Does that System Still Boot
matmroy 2 months ago
@matmroy Yes.
vwestlife 2 months ago
is that drive still alive?
bamdadkhan 2 months ago
@bamdadkhan Yes.
vwestlife 2 months ago
Now that's fun! If all hard drives sounded like that, the world would be awesome.
raymangold22 2 months ago
I hear a loud high pitched ring!
SlimeAmTheBest 2 months ago
I had a hard drive like that in a old 386 I had years ago. It always seems to remind of a air plan taking off.
79Datson 2 months ago
@79Datson minus all the wired noises :P
79Datson 2 months ago
haha u should listen to my GPU fan! *tick tick tick*
MrOzzy15 2 months ago
I remember hearing a noise like that on an old IBM compatable Tandy computer similar to this one, most notable the sound at 0:15 and it had the same exact style grille with the LED on the hard drive. It was older than yours and the screen was a monochrome green screen fed by a standard composite video signal and I played typing tutor on it. That game was on a 5.25 floppy disk. It ran DOS 4.25.
coondogtheman1234 2 months ago
I have a modern-day 750GB Seagate SATA hard drive and even it makes funny noises; which might not be a good thing. :-P
Roadgeek 2 months ago
It's got nothing on my Kyocera, which makes a short and sweet knock and ping, but I bet it will have you on seeking noise!
themaritimeman 2 months ago
@themaritimeman There were some full-height IBM hard drives which made a "pin dropping" sound when the heads unparked. That is also unique, but this Seagate drive puts on a whole show!
vwestlife 2 months ago
That's not unusual, it's AWESOME!
jebug29 2 months ago
Good old Seagate MFM!!!
MrComputerfan 2 months ago
@MrComputerfan Actually this one is RLL.
vwestlife 2 months ago
@vwestlife It looks like a ST251 thts becouse I thought its MFM, did they use RLL after the ST251 or is it a different model?
MrComputerfan 2 months ago
@MrComputerfan The ST277R is the RLL-certified version of the ST251. The mechanics are the same, but the RLL version was made with higher quality control of the disk surface, allowing it to be safely formatted with 26 sectors per track instead of 17, giving it about 50% more capacity. MFM and RLL drives were sold side-by-side for many years, until the IDE standard took over.
vwestlife 2 months ago
@vwestlife Is the Computer your PB-500 ? did you change the Hard Drive and Floppy Drive?
MrComputerfan 2 months ago
@MrComputerfan Yes, and yes!
vwestlife 2 months ago
That is a noise I will never forget! Those drives also make a very unique groaning noise when the stepper motor drifts far enough out of calibration that the drive has trouble finding locations on disk.
My dad had an ST-251 (MFM instead of RLL) in his Zenith PC clone, and I'd go down to the basement each day to start it, so that his fax program would work. Being a second grader at the time, I thought it was just The Coolest Thing Ever.
uxwbill 2 months ago
@uxwbill These drives also make a very strange "Jake Brake" noise when you turn them off. When power is removed, the spindle motor turns into a generator, and supplies enough current to activate the stepper motor and park the heads.
vwestlife 2 months ago
@uxwbill Your a second grader!? WHAT THE HECK!
mraiwa1000 2 months ago
@mraiwa1000 Uh, not since basically 20 years ago...you did see the "at the time", right?
uxwbill 2 months ago
@uxwbill Yeah I saw it. Oh yeah I like yor vids. Do you remeber me?
mraiwa1000 2 months ago
my computer from 1998 makes those noises
bakonfreek 2 months ago
I like that noise, but didn't you make a video about that hard drive quite a while ago? I'm pretty sure you did.
Lachlant1984 2 months ago
@Lachlant1984 Yes, I posted this as a response to that video.
vwestlife 2 months ago
lol
iTouchiPodez 2 months ago
Sounds like the typical hard disk startup sound but slowed down :-D
133MHzz 2 months ago
well that's interesting.
emomotorgeek 2 months ago