Hitachi Ultrastar DK32EJ-36NC 36GB (2003) - Hard Drive Sounds

While being branded as an Ultrastar, this drive was a pre-IBM merger design from Hitachi. The Ultrastar branding was simply slapped on later, past the acquisition. If you've seen any of my older videos, such as on the DK32CJ for example, this generation is quite different in looks, but much the same in how it sounds.

There's quite a lot of changes in this video compared to my usual format. I'm playing around with my video presentation a bit, so if you have feedback of any kind I'd love to hear it. Each video will have a different background from now on, no more wooden desk!

I'll upload the pictures & associated site post for this drive tomorrow. If you're interested in that, be sure to check back later.

Thanks for watching!

Chapters:
0:00 Startup & Spin-down
0:23 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Demonstration
2:31 Spinrite v6.0 Performance Benchmark
3:03 Running hdmotion
3:43 Running Speedsys (v4.78)
4:15 Spin-down (final)