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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have a lot of old hard drives, some of which are still working and others are damaged. My project is collect the sounds produced during start-up. To do this i use a digital recorder zoom h4n using the two incorporated microphones and two 'diy'ed contact microphones additionally. This here is the sound of a western digital caviar 32500 working fine.
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.