106 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Disk Drive"

A real recording of an external hdd (hard disk drive) getting turned on and off.

Inserting a 5. 25-inch floppy disk into a micropolis 1053 i metafloppy floppy-disk drive. That's the sliding sound at the beginning. The second knock-knock type of sound is the press-down-and-hook drive latch being closed. The micropolis 1053 is a two-drives unit for s-100 bus early computers. This sound was recorded on the upper floppy-drive.

This is a recording of my broken hard drive when i turn it on. It sounds like it attempts to read the data but then it fails and powers down.

Recording near a computer fan and hard drive. Not great quality recording. I had placed the mic right where all the air was blowing. Sounds best on lower volumes.

Recorded on rode ntg3.

A recording of an external hard drive spinning up. Recorded with an audio-technica at2020usb+.

A sound of me opening and closing my disk drive on my laptop.

An old desktop computer running. Mic a bit too close to the ventilator and resting on the cabinet. High frequency hard drive noise clearly annoying.

Power on, spin up and head-alignment procedure of a micropolis 3243s 4gb 3. 5" scsi2 7200 rpm hard-disk-drive from the 1990s.

Stereo-recording at home from my external hard-disk drive, turning as it is working on a large file, steady with only few variations. Slightly processed.

A gentle looping atmo of a computer with fans, a very silent transformer hum and occasional hard drive access. Released under the only license which makes sense for this type of thing: cc0 feel free to use it for whatever and however.

This was synthesized. No hard drives were harmed in the making of this sound.

Inserting, reading, launching a program, and ejecting a dvd-r in a usb disc drive (repackaged "hp dvdram gu90n" laptop drive) with the occasional rumble of a 2tb 7200rpm internal hard drive (in an enclosure) and mouse clicks. Computer fan may be audible in background. Contains seek noises. Recorded on blue yeti in omnidirectional mode and denoised in rx 8 (drive whine re-enhanced though as noise removal made it quieter). Labels added to audio in fl studio edison.

Sound of my blu-ray player's disk drive opening and closing repeatedly. Recorded on a pixel 4a, cleaned up a little in fl studio 20. This sound is cc0, so use it wherever/however you want, but if you do use it in something i'd love to hear about it in the comments!.

An older generation hp proliant server booting up and shutting down. The hard drive has been spinning for many years, therefore it sounds deeper than usual. Year: 2020location: aalsmeer, the netherlandschannels: 1 (mono)microphone: unknownmic polar pattern: cardioid.

Stereo-recording at home from my external hard-disk drive, power is switched on and the disk starts to spin until it stops.

Old hard drive, mirrored from my youtube account for better quality.

Cold booting a computer built inside of a milk crate, allowing it to start up and start running a stress test, and then hard shutting it down by flicking the power supply switch. Multiple computers were running in this room and this recording is unedited, so there's some extra background noise. Sorry.

The wonderful sounds of a 1981 ibm pc model 5150 being turned on, the 5. 25" disk drive checking if a diskette is inserted, the pc emitting its idle hum, and finally being turned back off.

I recorded the fan on quite loud and i opened and closed the cd drive on my hp eletebook 8460p, different laptop models have a different frequency from the fan and different cd drives make a different sound when checking it. Recorded from the internal microphone.

Sound of a harddrive spinning up and down recorded with an inductor coil attached to my zoom h1n. Could be used for spaceship sounds, electronic device charging up sounds, etc.

Starting a computer, sounds of the hdd and fans as the computer boots windows.

This is a sound of a spinning cd disk, opening and closing the cd drive. In the background there is a slight noise from the spinning hard disk of the computer. Recorded with my smartphone, the xiaomi redmi note 10.

Inserting a large 8-inch floppy-disk into a shugart floppy disk drive and closing the plastic front bezel drive latch. Noisy recording with the fan of the enclosure and neighboring system humming along.

Typical sliding sound a 3. 5-inch floppy-disk makes when someone has ejected the disk and takes it from the floppy disk drive.

Inserting 3. 5 inch floppy-disk into a floppy disk drive, with the typical sliding sound first and then the spring-activated locking mechanism snapping it shut.

Using a piezo pickup for classical guitar to capture sound produced from using 3 1/2 usb floppy disk drive to read, write, delete, and eject.

A close recording of two harddrives spinning up.

Striped disk.

Computer fan and some hard disk noise. Mono.

Sound of a wii reading a disk. Recorded from my computer's microphone with windows 7 sound recorder on 3/24/15.

This sound made using audacity program.

Dvd box opened and closed and the disk being taken out and put back.

This is the sound of me loading a dvd into my xbox while it's already running.

On the streets of bhaktapur a man rides a vehicle with a large drive belt exposed.

Load unload of the head for hdd.

Gentle hum of my hard drive. Recorder: mixpre 6microphones: oktavia. You can use this sound for your non-profit or for-profit projects. You can also help me directly on paypal:https://paypal. Me/federicocasazza?country. X=gb&locale. X=en_gb. Enjoy.

Layered sound containing the following elements;. - steel fence resonation (no attack)- spinning steel disk (faded out)- metal pipes resonating (l/r)- board wobble (repeated). -alexander.

Some sounds from an external cd-dvd drive, such as inserting a disc, ejecting it, and some beeps from the drive. Edited in audacity to remove most of the background noise.

An excelstor hard drive manufactured in 2004 close up; spin up, writing, spin down. This drive has 1 platter. (excelstor j680).

A 7200 rpm western digital hard drive spins up, idles for about 15 seconds and shuts off. Nice motor noises along with the spin up. Recorded using a zoom h1n recorder very close to the hard drive. Noise reduction and cuts made using audacity.

The raw data is result of this command in my linux command line shell:. Cat /dev/sda1 > my_hard_drive. Then the file my_hard_drive has been imported as raw by audacity sound editing program with attributes:. Signed 16 bit pcm with no byte order 2 channels (whatever. . . ) stereo, 44100 hz. This sound differs from that which can be played just by command "cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp" - this last command plays sound through speakers instead of writing a file. The sound is closer to sound of 56k modem. Later i will upload it (i've just connected line-out of sound card to it's microphone slot).

This is record from line-out of soundcard connected to microphone in, when command "sudo cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp" is running in my linux command line shell. Sounds really close to modem 56k. Unfortunately i've written it into 128 kbit mp3, so this is result of back conversion into wave.

The sound of a cd case falling and hitting the ground. Could also pass for a disk, cassette, cartridge, or other small plastic object.

Nagrane mikrofonem piezoelektrycznym / recorded with a piezoelectric microphone.

A close up recording of an overheating usb slot-loading cd/dvd drive that repeatedly tries to spin up, but fails and makes some clicking noises. Note on low frequency sounds: i recorded this with a zoom h1n recorder at about 2cm distance from the drive slot. I held the recorder in my hand and rested my hand on the surface the cd drive was resting on, so there is somewhat of a mechanical connection between the drive's vibrations and the recorder. I believe this led to the low frequency parts of the recording. About halfway through the recording, i lifted the drive up with my other hand and held it at a 30degree angle to the surface and recorder. As you can hear in the recording, this made it spin up a little longer before failing and spinning back down.

This was recorded by holding a small pcm recorder (zoom h1n) very close to an ipod 4th generation. The ipod was turned on and its hard drive tried to start up. You can hear the spin up of the motor and the hard drive head clicking back and forth. The hard drive fails to power up completely and eventually shuts down again. A 350 hz high pass filter was applied, in addition to audacity noise reduction, to get this clean motor noise from the original recording. The stereo file was then mixed to mono because the mic was slightly off center from the ipod, and the stereo provides no benefit. The hard drive in this ipod is a 1. 8" 40 gb toshiba hard drive, the ipod model is a1059. The microphone was held just 3 cm (1. 2 in) from the ipod. Recording settings were stereo 44. 1 khz at 16 bit (wav format). The file is the same except it's mono.

Sounds of an old hard disk drive from 2005 (hitachi). You hear starting of the spinning noise and the heads rumbling when data is read and written. I started a short defragmenting to make the disk noisy. Recorded with a roland r-05.

Multiple performances of pressing the eject button on a nintendo gamecube console and closing the lid again. Recorded with senal sci-3212mp microphone into zoom f4 recorder. Trimmed in adobe audition with high pass filter added, no other effects applied.

Here's the sound of my dell portable dvd drive spinning up, reading and spinning down. Recorded with realtek hd audio microphone.