84 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Hard Drive"

Failing hard drives.

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

My external hard drive running.

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.

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

This is an external hard drive shutting down.

Recorded on rode ntg3.

Old compaq presario computer from 2003 booting up, then searching the hard drive. Recorded from the inside of the computer case behind the hard drives. With motorola xt1095.

Failing hard drive. Recorded on zoom h2n.

Computer hard drive access fan clicking whir.

Scary hardware sound made by a hard drive. Recorded with zoom h2n.

Dropping a 100 gb maxtor harddrive.

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.

Sound of a computer server/hard drive being turned on.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Hard drive (2 tb) turns on. Small fan, sound of little crunching. Really a swell sound that can be used for any sort of computer, video game console, etc.

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.

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.

A western digital drive refusing to mount. Recorded on a sennheiser me66 k6 microphone, in camera on a sony nex fs700. Hum in the background is the air-conditioned office.

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).

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

An old hard drive starting up. The idle sound is from the hard drive itself and not the computer's fan noise. Some minor editing has been done to remove a slight bass rumble from the computer's fan. Recorded on sony pcm-a10.

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.

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.

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

An old hard drive booting up and being shut off with a very noisy fan. I recorded it very close to the source. Could be used for rickety spacecraft or diy science project sounds.

My g-raid external hard drive turns on. I recorded this with my logitech webcam pro 9000 in audacity. Note: the hard drive isn't as laud as the recording is. I amplified it a lot.

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.

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

This sound was made by sunvox.

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.

Recorded with tascam dr-07.

Remix of eroikas remix http://freesound. Org/people/erokia/sounds/401269/ which originated in rheynemusic´s https://freesound. Org/people/rheynemusic/sounds/401225/. Combination/remix was suggested by limitsnap_creations. Thanks!!. Stretched and pitched the hdd-sound a little for optimal fit, also some sidechain compression gives the rhodes more space to breath.

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.

Computer turning on sound.

Dell dimension 8300 with maxtor and samsung hard drivesrecorded with motorola xt1095.

There are three of these files. I used the microtrack to record them. I put the mic on an extension and stuffed it inside of an already noisy drive and ran a defrag. These files are samples of the different types of noise that i got. Basically it's a close perspective on a working/struggling hard drive.

There are three of these files. I used the microtrack to record them. I put the mic on an extension and stuffed it inside of an already noisy drive and ran a defrag. These files are samples of the different types of noise that i got. Basically it's a close perspective on a working/struggling hard drive.

There are three of these files. I used the microtrack to record them. I put the mic on an extension and stuffed it inside of an already noisy drive and ran a defrag. These files are samples of the different types of noise that i got. Basically it's a close perspective on a working/struggling hard drive.

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.

Old external hard drive booting up then shutting back down. Recorded with moto g7.

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 mechanical hard drive being spun up after pressing a power button. Recorded with a shure sm58 and post processed with audacity.