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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. That Click! by denmarkw00t · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've heard it one too many times, which is >= 1 times. I pretty much give up at that point - once the click starts, your drive quickly begins to stop :(

  2. DIY Data Recovery for Broken HDDs by wehe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just in case you don't want or don't need to order data recovery from a professional service, which is often expensive and takes time, here are some do-it-yourself guides for data recovery from broken hard disk drives. Of course you will not try these approaches if your data are really precious. But it you can afford to loose the data or you don't want to reveal them to others, these guides are worth a try to get the data resurrected.

  3. Re:But you can't dance to it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Get yourself a nice little present and install "FlashGot". It is a FireFox plugin and it will download whatever you like, including Flash and embedded media.

  4. Re:Ring tone one is awesome by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uhh.. actually you should have booted up off the CD, selected "recovery console" and then run chkdsk /f c:

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    How we know is more important than what we know.
  5. Re:Worst Yanni album by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You have never listened to a Yanni album before have you?

  6. Re:But you can't dance to it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nice variety of sounds, but totally inaccessible. I give it a D."

    Dude, you're not Slashdot material if you didn't check the page source. The URLs are right there!

  7. Torrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's badly slashdotted, and annoyingly wrapped in Flash, so I scraped out the MP3s and put them in a torrent (2MB). It's at http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4504421. Enjoy!