Spin up/down of 189 hard drives from 10MB to 4TB ! - HDD collection, April 2023

My entire hard drive collection as of April 2023. Over 45 minutes of hard drives spinning up and down!

The drives are sorted by capacity, smaller first. For drives of the same capacity, I placed all duplicates of the same model one after another.
The capacity indicated in the video is as reported by speedsys for drives under 40GB. For drives of 40GB or higher it is the one listed on the drive’s label.

A few of the recordings have been edited either to remove long pauses for some early drives that wait for the controller before doing the seektest and/or for the drives that I needed to actually boot as they need to be parked before spinning down.


If you like hard drive sounds, you may consider watching my single drive videos, where I record the drives in action rather then just the seektest :)