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Harddrive Speakers
paranoidia writes "Ever get annoyed by the loud noise your harddrive makes? I bet you never thought of actually using that to your advantage. A friend here at CMU actually took 3 broken hard drives and got them to spin at certain frequencies outputed by his computer. So in the end, three harddrives are actually now speakers! There are videos and a few pictures with explanations onto how he did this wonderous thing."
Well maybe you should try replacing your sound system with some new harddrives.
*laugh*
No seriously, the sounds recognizable and its a pretty impressive technical feat. Honestly though, I'd like to see a vibrator speaker system as well. Maybe it would turn on some women to new types of music.. omg.. stop me now.
Sigs are awesome huh?
Yeah, they had thier own processor, but they were NOT fast at formatting a disk, it took about 80 seconds, then you had to flip the disk over and format the other side (if you were so inclined to use double sided disks).
Oh, and copying a disk was lots of fun, considering that the memory could only hold 64K chunks at a time, and the disk held about 180K per side, I think (it was measured in blocks rather than KB back then). You had to keep switching the disks back and forth to make a copy of a full disk.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
There's a trade off there between seek time and noise. Maxtor acutally has acoustic management utilities where you can choose faster seeks or quieter operation.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
On a similar note, I have an old 10Base-T hub, one of the old metal wall-mount kinds, and if you power it from a 9 volt power supply rather than a 7.5, it actually hisses! It doesn't overheat or anything, I can only think it must be an inductor or something that vibrates in a certain way to make the hissing noise.
We also had a cisco hub at work that does the same thing on it's rated voltage. That one also got really hot though.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
That's why recovery companies open drives in a dust-free environment with hazmat suits on
Well, naturally, that's what they say is the reason. After all, if everyone in the world knew that deadly chemicals were contained in hard drive platters, no one would ever touch a computer again! Don't tell me you actually believe them?!?
Maxtor drives are always very quiet. They have an acoustic management utility you can use to either make them seek faster or be quieter. Even with fast seeks on, they are still very quiet. Maxtor is quickly becoming the best hard disk manufacturer. Their drives are also very reliable and they are the technology leader with the largest dis(c)ks.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Wow, I can only imagine how arousing THAT must have been...
*monochrome green naked woman, or possibly a tree sloth, it's hard to tell, moves across the screen at 4 fps*
"GRONK GRONK GRONK"
I'm getting all tingly just thinking about it.
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