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The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives
zzptichka sends along a link to recordings of typical sounds from 35 different failing and dying hard drives. The host of these sounds, Datacent, is in the business of data recovery, so presumably they have heard it all.
Pah, I've been hearing those sounds for ages and my computer's carrying on regardl
Man, how creepy would that be?
I bet it got reported as a "virus".
How we know is more important than what we know.
EVER!
The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
A colleague of mine once demonstrated his bad hard drive as follows: "If I want to load that file, it starts singing." And indeed, the hard drive sang like a bird, but the file was never loaded.
-- Cheers!
Involves a penguin being smashed through the Window while squashing apples and ripping up an encyclopedia then setting a fox on fire.
do they make sound if there is no admin around to hear it?
I had to come up with some competition for our boring christmas party and this solves it. -What is wrong with this harddrive and for bonus points who is the manufacturor? weewt!
Setup one of these to play on a computer of your local BOFH and see if he/she is sharp enough to realize that the WD disk in his box cannot make the sound of a failing Maxtor...
The sound of slashdotted servers.
Either you're lucky, or I'm the opposite outlier to balance things out. I've had disks from all manufacturers fail on me, after using them 24/7 for a while. It's tempting to blame the cooling, but they weren't especially warm - I guess it's just a side effect of using a desktop drive harder and more than intended.
On the positive side, I haven't had any problems for a while now ...
(And now that I've said that, I fully expect to come home and find at least one drive having caught fire.)
Every single one of those made me shiver like a leaf...imagine the lost porn on each of those drives and I think you'll shiver along with me.
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
It's almost musical. In an avant-garde sort of way.
+1 UserIsHigh
come on guy. Do an analog loop back and use Audacity to capture it.
I've two raptor in raid, and I'm worried: by default, they sound like a heavy machinegun in a WWI trench. I wonder what sound they would manage to produce when failing
I don't really want to go through the horror of listening through all those sound files, but from my own personal experience I don't think "the chainsaw" is on there. When my hard drive crashed, it started with a soft noise which within 30 seconds built to an extremely loud noise akin to a chainsaw, before suddenly and completely seizing up.
You young whipper snappers talk of the sound of failing drives. I remember and can never forget the smell of failing drives. When you get the call that the system wont boot up and you walk into the computer room to the very distinct smell of a head crash on a 14" platter. You ask the operator "where are the backup disks?" and she says "I tried them all and none of them will work". Oh crap she just trashed the backups.
about 10 minutes ago, all of their hard drives started making those "bad bearing" noises.
Then they realized they'd been slashdotted and the servers were melting.
Think we can get them to record the sound of a server dying to Slashdot Effect?
I think that's the same thing my Labrador does.
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