14 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Harddrive"

Two harddrives that's working by copying some files.

Sata-harddrive failure sound, after purchasing one as supposedly brand-new.

The sound of an (almost) broken hard drive. Including a "meep" and a "beep" :) recorded with the zoom h2.

I installed in december 2011 my sound data for bfd-eco, an acoustic drum vst that really rocks. By that time i had my akai mpc 1000 connected to my computer to do some sampling. While i didn't do any sampling while the installation progressed i did hear that the external hard drive that i was installing onto sent out disturbing binary pulses that my mpc picked up. I quickly started the sampler, and recorded as much as i could of the noises. This is the result.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keyboard click and whirring of harddrive.

Dropping a 100 gb maxtor harddrive.

Hitting a hard drive with a pizza cutter recorded with dr-05 96000 hz sample ratein the kitchen it was a seagate 250gb 7200 rpm 3,5 inch harddrive with sata.

A drone patch on a doepfer system. The system gets gates and cv from a telephone pickup listening on the harddrive and fans on a macbook. I think everything passes through the a199 - spring reverb module aswell.

Closeup recording of the backside of a tower pc, fans and the harddrive can be heard. Neighbor is banging around, you may need to loop a smaller part. Flac file test for the first time.

*short, synthesized evolving looping ambient teaser sequence with deep reverb on distant kickdrum. Fades in and fades out. A hint of a dreamy, chilling out atmosphere. An aural echo of days of gentle hippiedom. An accidental discovery as a result of feeding ni massive through flstudio's effector vst. An x-y controller is attached to effector with asychronous ramping of the x and y gains via two control tracks. Strangely produces phantom instrument sounds, almost like guitar and organ. Created in flstudio 11 with ni massive, flstudio effector, reverb, compression and eq. The note track is made by me for no good reason - i just thought it sounded pretty. *there is, now, a longer version on my harddrive.