27 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Hard Disk Drive"

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

Recorded on rode ntg3.

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.

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

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, power is switched on and the disk starts to spin until it stops.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Recording of a 1995 compaq computer desktop hard drive. Features electronic whirring, powering up / down sounds, whirring, clicking, "memory access" noise. Could be used for e. G. A movie scene with computers in the background, glitchy techno, etc.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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!.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sample of a metallic percussion hit. The sound is quite dark and muffled. I call it underwater drum, because it sounds to me like it's underwater. This sample is tuned to a1 but there is a very dominant overtone at b1, which is the musical interval of a minor second. The source of the sample was the platter of a dismantled hard disk drive, hit with a wooden mallet. It was then pitched down a lot. The sample is almost raw, i just added some slight eq. The sample was intended to be used with a sampler, you may want to add some reverb for this and filter the previously mentioned overtone, when you use it in combination with other tuned instruments. Also, the pitch is probably not perfectly tuned. Microphone: akq perception 120post-processing: pitch manipulation & eq.

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.