Back in the 90s I had an IBM 5500rpm (fast for the time) drive that was very fast but had a continuous reeeeeee sound while on
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I have a 200MB ST9235AG, manual dated 1993 available and ORGASMIC, manufacturers should take note as opposed to what they're doing now, see for example real current consumption graphs at startup (as opposed to now giving some numbers that are just many times higher than the reality and would simply fit any disk they made over the last 2 decades and plan to make for next).
It sounds like a vacuum cleaner even if it's "just" 3449(!) RPM drive and 2.5" (albeit 20mm height!!!). Can't remember if it was doing like that back then or in the meantime the bearings dried up (or whatever is called what the entropy does to hard drive bearings). Still works 100% ok, and it sat from 2001 to 2019 without being powered on.
Those quantum bigfoot 5.25" drives were pretty damn good with feedback. pide/pata were still quiet compared to some of the 2.1gb 50pin scsi disks I ran for a bit in some prosignia 300s.
Maxtor Fireball.
Heh I remember those. When I was in undergrad doing work study with IT we had loads of laptops through the school year with burned controllers on those things.
Not 3.5", but I had a 5.25 FULL height micropolis 140MB SCSI drive (yes MB).
Thing was a boat anchor, but more relevant to the discussion here, when powered on, it would sound like a scene from topgun while it spun up. Crazy loud.
It sadly died when I accidentally proved that you can indeed plug in a molex connector upside down, as long as your push hard enough (it just momentarily made contact, but that was enough to let the magic smoke out).