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The Joy of the Flash Drive
An anonymous reader writes "A post to the C|Net site covers the numerous benefits of flash drives, such as speed, temperature, and battery consumption. The perk author Michael Kanellos is most fond of? The distinct lack of noise. 'The notebook I'm testing--a Dell Latitude D830 with a 64GB flash hard drive from Samsung--hasn't emitted a sound in three days. Flash drives, which store data in NAND flash memory, don't require motors or spinning platters. Thus, there are no whirring mechanical noises. Compare that with my T42 ThinkPad. It sounds like a guinea pig got trapped inside, particularly during the start-up phase. Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee. '"
I wonder what sound he makes...
"Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee."
That's the pr0n your watching, not your hard drive dude.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Ought to be enough for anybody
I record my sleeptalking
>> I like the hard drive noises. Lets be honest here, they are soft clicks and chirps, not chainsaw noises. It gives me a non-visual feel of what the computer's up to.
I can see it now - someone will come out with a driver for people like yourselves that insist on having more noise in their environment. I'll then be tortured by sounds of car engines taking off, "That's my hard drive sound driver - cool huh?", birds tweating and for the joker in the crowd, a huge burp or fart sound as the drive spins up.
Joy.
The drive on this laptop is fairly quite but as with all things, I wouldn't mind it being better - speed would be my primary gain albeit I'd also appreciate the utter sound of silence.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
You mean, it's not supposed to sound like a chainsaw? Might could be my problem... Either way, nothing compares to modem noise. It's the only reason I miss dialup.
I don't post AC. I like my -1, Flamebaits. Trump/Sheen 2012 on the Batshit Insane ticket!
you have apparently forgotten the joys of the dot matrix printer.
When you have that Intel chip that needs a fan that sounds like the Swamp Boat from the WaterBoy movie with Adam Sandler.
Every time I turn on my laptop and I hear the fan spin to life I think of that swamp boat and I can hear,
"My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush."
"Wrong! Alligators are aggressive because of an enlarged medulla oblongata."
"No, Colonel Sanders, you're wrong. You're all wrong. Mama's right. Mama's right!"
"Somethin' wrong with his medulla oblongata."
Oh Slashdot, unfounded conclusions and ridiculous extrapolation of benign ideas into cultish plans to consume the still warm corpses of children get you a +5.
I hate printers.
IMHO "peace and quiet pollution" doesn't have the same ring to it.
I hate printers.
> Why do we need freakin laser beams filling up a room when the server is running?
The water-cooled model features sharks which swim around according to the drive activity....
Duct tape.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
What about the "unihammer" printer, such as the Seikosha GP80-A? It's the only printer I've owned where my downstairs neighbour knocked on the door and asked me to stop printing...
Particles, stuff that matters.
MCSE will tell you to open perfmon and go through a lengthy process selecting items to watch.
Of course then, you're running another program and just adding to the disk activity.
Why read the article when I can just make up a snap judgement?
Now that the blue ring of light is cool at times, and annoying, i still can't return the same to BestBuy for this reason as i would be laughed out of the store.
And blast WD, the drive is as robust as can be, with no manufacturer faults, etc.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer