Making a Hard Drive Speaker

[jekasiv]

хуйня

[fucheduck]

my hard disk "chirps" like birds in the distance outside or a squeaky wheel. It does this through my computer's soundcard whenever I click on a blank space in a game or on the windows desktop. It is a new harddrive(array) too, Two Raptors and one WD black. I hope my Power supply isn't the culprit.

[mikeycomputer]

Yo dawg, I heard you made a speaker out of a hard drive.

So I'm listening to you make a speaker out of a hard drive with a speaker made out of a hard drive.

(I made one too, and I have it hooked up to my computer.)

[thingkinfast]

are those baby chicks? in the background they sound so cute!

[19Floe95]

hey, cool vid! could you tell me where i have to plug the audio wires on my hdd? i have a spare WD800JB - you can pm me and i send you a photo of the hdd =) thanks in advance!

[df1800]

This dude should be more careful about what he leaves in the background.

Mrs Jing Zhao 60 Baulkham Hills Road, Baulkham Hills, Sydney 2150.

[thehacksrule]

HEY PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS> I HAVE THE SAME HARD DRIVE AND I NEED HELP ON HOW TO MAKE IT SPIN THANKS!!!

[rudi2122]

okay, i just finished it and works perfectly! its not as loud as yours,i didiit with your exact HDD but a bit older, 236 mb..... i still cant understand how it makes sound.

[vikenemesh]

@rudi2122 Your amplified Audio signal controlls the movement of the head. So it oscillates and excites the air around it. It's like a normal speaker.

[TheReaperofthefallen]

what kind of amp do i need for it to work on especially low sounds... i want it for bass



[deadlyblender]

kill the fucking bird

[gtxcastrol1]

i would loose it if that bird wouldnt shut up

[bestpctips]

can i make a speaker out of skittles?

[edy2112]

Your bird sounds hungry...

[BadEditionBeta]

will it work on a 2x 100 watt amplifier?

[Jeka187]

try to play music while the disks are spinning... !?!?!

[wuooo]

coke so awesome!

[wuooo]

coke so awesome!

[ChrisD4335]

But if i turn my hard drive into a speaker where would i store my porn

[davidus444]

@ChrisD4335 Store it on your speaker.

[killllshot]

@ChrisD4335 Flash drive?

[CondemnedGraham]

@ChrisD4335 a cloud server?

[jasonmit]

I have nearly the exact same HD. Thanks for making it even easier.

[kollin17]

your soldering technique is amazingly horrible

[deathbytnt]

don't turn it up too loud. my hdd caught fire and smoked

[vinny9er]

i have a old dell dimension v350 that will not open any other ways i want to make a hdd speaker

P.S.

it was donated to me for free

[MisterZimbabwe]

Way to MacGyver that shiz!

[974xdd]

I made a speaker from Seagate ST3660A 545 MBytes. It's really well, but without disc it's better;]

[974xdd]

Great. I have the same model drive. It has no bad sectors, it very well, just do not want to destroy it :D It's Seagate ST3630A 630 megabytes lol

[compumastere]

What programm on your laptop is that?

(the Programm wich shows the waves)

Very nice

[kwebber1234]

also does it matter where you solder the wires at 2:51??

[kwebber1234]

mine is like super hard to open.

[MATUXAZ]

used TorX unsrewer? :D

[GT5Enthusiast]

make an HDD sub woofer now.

[NihaNtkaNsara]

at 3:24 which weirs do u match audio weirs and that one or some thing else plz reply

[darrylportelli]

so the actual motor that spins the disk does not need to be spinnng right??

[trymesucker]

can u use ur hard drive again after doing this!?

[triremidiopliti]

Cool!

P.S.

Man do u have birds there ??!?!

[Jaguar2358]

I like your video kos you really explain how to make them, the rest of the videos that I have seen they only show how they work.

congrats bro.

[97221135]

Hey . Why Yours Is So Loud ? I Was So Intrested That I Made One Of My Own . But The Head Always Stuck At The Magnet . What Step Did I Miss ? Can You Please Help Me ?

[RoboTekno]

lol, it didn't like the large amplitudes :P

[ShadowwwLFS]

holee shit :o

[goqwertygo]

thats awesome ive got a bunch of 1-2 giggers i can use

[crusiatusblack]

Nice tutorial, I bought some new F1 Spinpoints so my crappy old maxtor's are going to get a special treatment. Thanks mate, it actually looks pretty as well!

[liightheaded]

=D i have a random 72.1MB! hhd ahahahaha

[Goasler]

DANKE! Habs gleich noch um 1:45 Uhr ausprobiert und nach einigen anfangsschwierigkeiten ging es !!! GEIL GEIL GEIL!

Also: Wer eine alte HDD hat nicht wegwerfen sondern zum Speaker umbaun oder zur Uhr

[jonlee29]

I had that laptop

[MorkaGraven]

Whats the impedance?

[TheMcBravo]

k calidad de audio si fuera a gran escala lo aria con mi cuarto jajaja

[Cowboydude701]

Lol use scotch tape because that looks so much cooler than eletrical tape

and a very cheap alternative

[djcementRU]

Birds on the background.....!!!! cool

[ahhhnomames]

i dont uderstand how is it possible?

[MorkaGraven]

The motion of the arm going back and forth creates vibrations which are picked up by the human ear as sound. just like a normal speaker is a cone shape bouncing in and out due to a magnet pushing and pulling it.

[stefandenholander]

is the hdd on ?

[stefandenholander]

@stefandenholander

do not turn the hdd on

its not good

[Rockflier]

Lol, I have the same laptop

[aca192maric]

if you speen hard sound is much more bether quality

[AdamNaPate]

nice guy!

I have a question. Can you make a HDD form speaker? :D

[GGGunitNextLevel]

haha

[fishdude333]

if only...

[fladdy45]

A tip

Make sure that the reader arm doesnt move, so tight it very fast, maybe solder it.

Better sound that way ;)

[Arthedes]

@fladdy45 sound are just vibrations in the air. The arm is te only moving part in the hdd exept for the disk itself, which wasnt spinning. If nothing mives, then you wont have sound

[lolley1100]

lol...i did this project a while back...I had a very low frequency bass tester on a cd, so I hooked it up to my amp in my truck...2000w of sheer kicker wasn't a bright idea...that arm flew off so fast, I found it a couple days later stuck into the side of my garage...

[andrewjmckenzie04]

I unscrewed every screw that was on the hdd

and connected it with a new car battery

and left it in my room

with lots of cotton on the floor

[BulgarianBoy92]

good job... but im just interested i know that the motor spinning the disk is quite fast... is it easy to connect? do i need control circuits or whatever?

[swehunter2000]

@BulgarianBoy92 its on 65 volts.. well yeah its easy to connect but its hard to find 65 volts.. buy a old computer power supply..

[BulgarianBoy92]

@swehunter2000

there are 4 wires... i dunno what is what

[swehunter2000]

@BulgarianBoy92 just connect a power supply and try.

[dtneter]

Question though.

When you test the connections with the motherboard speaker how did you get it to play so loud? i have to turn my volume way up on my hi-fi set till like 57% before i can get that volume level.

[p4e81]

it wasnt actually very loud. im guessing its because my room was dead quiet, maybe.

[Zarac1121123]

@dtneter with an amplifier

[ICEInterphace]

hey i plugged mine in the sound comes but realy low and the pin dosnt move like yours how come ? can i make it louder some how ?

[p4e81]

are you using an amp? if you are, it might not be strong enough.

[n00baTr00pa]

@ICEInterphace invert the polarity

[PeterMacGonagan]

Hello. Thank's a lot for your video. I'll try to make one next week.

What's software did you use on your laptop to play sound?

[p4e81]

@PeterMacGonagan

Ive used foobar2000

[xaros2009me2010]

how you wired it with the laptop ?

[p4e81]

the amp i used to power the drive had a 3.5mm aux input, which went into the headphone jack of the laptop.

[eliast5]

well ok i opened up a hard drive but i cant find which wires i need to connect too, which ones?

[hellstudios]

findddd theemmmmm.....it's not that hard.

[bugz000]

watch my tutorial, i actually talk you through it

[bazikkernel]

Клево!!!

[eliast5]

does the disk have 2 be movin?

[p4e81]

nope. the disk doesnt move at all in this one

[coondogtheman1234]

that was awesome. Favorited.

[vitalyguryev]

извращенцы )))

[minuitvampire]

Super!!!

[thepcdude]

What's the song at the end? O_O

[p4e81]

Bassotronics - 'Bass, I Love You'

[thepcdude]

Thanks!!

[RainerKlinglschmidt]

nicely done! for the next vid, close your window

[farter1255]

the song has its own bongos...lol

[Joseph9536]

Does this work with all hard drives?

[p4e81]

Yep, as long as you can find the wires for the drive's actuator arm

[ecookman]

ooh you are a brave man for not using solder paste

[AMDboy15]

i did this with a Seagate barracuda 30gb... now i need an old scsi for bass!

[skunkuk420]

lol fuk blowin the amp i just blow the hd up :P loud pop and a funny smell , worked good for about 5mins

[Racecar564]

Hey, the laptop at 3:52 looks like mine! =D

To be exact, it's a 2 year old HP Pavilion DV9000 CTO.

Running Ubuntu Linux.

[Racecar564]

The oldest hard drive I have is a western digital caviar 102aa that is 10.2 GB... I'm gonna make a video of it soon.

It's from June 30, 2000.

[Furetgarcon]

lol you could make it look like a old record player :D find where the sound is coming from make a cone and attach it thats how they did it during the 1910's-1920's

[Racecar564]

lol'd

[H1shman]

could this blow ur amp?

[p4e81]

that's a question im not confident enough to answer, sorry

[kirbyyasha]

Nope.

Unless you have a weak amp maybe. Good amp? Naw

[aly369]

hey i have two dead hard driver ones a 2GB seagate but i tryed but i can't find were the pins are

[Bassotronics]

I never new my song would end up in a hard drive in that manner.. LOL!

[myfatproductions]

pretty cool in the description it says 631MB HD lol.... so it probaly works with any HD

going to make one from a old pentium2 8.4gb ;)

[captain150]

That's pretty cool. I've always wanted to mess around with an old hard drive, but all my old hard drives WORK. Even though my oldest is only 1.2GB, I don't want to wreck a working hard drive. Oh well, I have a 4GB Fujitsu with all kinds of bad sectors, maybe I'll hack that one:)

BTW what is the song you are playing on it?

[p4e81]

The song is called 'Bass, I Love You' by 'Bassotronics' i think. (Thats the one i used when testing it out with my laptop). Before the laptop came in it was all from the radio.

[kuzimoto1]

Wow that's really cool, I can't wait to try that out. Also, what kind of media player are you using?

[p4e81]

I'm using foobar2000. Its really light-weight and powerful.

[kuzimoto1]

sweet, thanks!