85 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Floppy Drive"

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.

Amiga 600 floppy drive reading from a floppy disk. Recorded with an ipad (3rd gen) microphone sometime in early 2014.

Booting motherboard asrock p4i45e and reading data from floppy disk.

Inserting and removing a 3. 5" high-density floppy from an hp usb floppy drive. Unprocessed, recorded up-close with a blue yeti pro.

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.

Unprocessed recording of a laminated document being flopped.

Floppy paper yes.

Removing floppydisc from floppy drive(direct to pc recording. No tapemashine used).

Inserting a floppy into the floppydisc drive. (direct to pc recording. No tapemashine used).

Inserting a floppy into the floppydisc drive (alternative version). (direct to pc recording. No tapemashine used).

Reading/loading sound of the floppy drive (version 1)(direct to pc recording. No tapemashine used).

Reading/loading sound of the floppy drive (version 3)(direct to pc recording. No tapemashine used).

Reading/loading sound of the floppy drive (version 2)(direct to pc recording. No tapemashine used).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 a cd drive and other things.

Failing hard drives.

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

3 police cars driving past with different sirens.

I recorded my microwave button beeps, and a couple pieces of electronics beeping, as well as their cooling fans and small cd drive and servo motors starting and running. 24 bit, 48 khz mono.

Me unplugging a usb from my computer. Feel free to use in any commercial or non-commercial project, movie, game, or animation. Accreditation is not required.

98. 5 kluc montage edit of the 2020 toy 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.

Sound of car changing gears.

Booting up my grandma's black hp desktop with a 320gb western digital hard drive recorded with dr-05 at my grandma's bedroom.

This is me driving through the drive-thru.

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

In a mill in nepal dry ginger and curcuma is fed into a belt-driven milling machine.

Just a simple deep bass for applications with a nice snap.

Channeling the /dev/sda1 hard drive partition into a file. At last i've imported the raw file properly as the 8-bit unsigned linear pcm. This is 8bit mono 44100 hz windows wave. Lots of strange digital sounds. Quite useful for noise and experimental musicians. Interesting that if we just do cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp we hear different sound more like modem 56k. I also made a record of it. See my files.

Recorded on rode ntg3.

Power switch is pressed, computer starts up, plays a sound effect through the internal speaker, power switch is pressed again and the computer shuts down. Recorded with a zoom h4n, placed inside the computer.

A bus driving away.

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