Comment by ryukoposting
1 day ago
To be fair, hard drive noises come in many registers (heh). The Maxtor drive in my 1995 HP Vectra sounds much higher than the drive in that video. The drive in my 1998 Compaq laptop is even higher than that.
Granted, the most distinctive noise of the Vectra's boot sequence is the moaning of the floppy drives, not the hard drive.
A lot of older hard drives made a soft "fweep fweep fweep" as the heads were actuated by a stepper motor. The "tik-tik-tik" hard drives had servomotors. Occasionally I heard the stepper-motor "fweep fweep" sound to indicate "computer is working" in media, even when said computer was too new to have like an ST506 in it.