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The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives

Posted by kdawson on from the never-want-to-hear-it-twice dept.

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.

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  1. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pah, I've been hearing those sounds for ages and my computer's carrying on regardl

  2. Worst Yanni album by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    EVER!

  3. The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives by cheese-cube · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    1. Re:The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

      If a geek cries out in agony, but nobody is there to hear it, has he made a sound?

      Or, until someone opens the basement door, is he like Schrödinger's cat: both screaming and not screaming?

      --
      [Fuck Beta]
      o0t!
  4. Bird sounds by tsa · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  5. The sound of being modded troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Involves a penguin being smashed through the Window while squashing apples and ripping up an encyclopedia then setting a fox on fire.

  6. Thanks by Elisanre · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  7. Re:but.. by crowbarsarefornerdyg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but it's usually accompanied, and drowned out by a screaming engineer.

    --
    "Slapping lipstick on a pig does NOT make it Natalie Portman. Paris Hilton, maybe, but not Portman." - UncleTogie
  8. April 1st prank/test material by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  9. Re:In all my years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.)

  10. The sound nightmares are made of. by Willeh · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.
  11. Re:Play several of the recordings simultaneously! by dword · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's almost musical. In an avant-garde sort of way.

    +1 UserIsHigh

  12. Re:Sounds bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  13. Ironically... by Moryath · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?