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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. Re:Ring tone one is awesome by theaveng · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In my case it wasn't a failing hard drive, but a failing power supply that erased my c: drive. The loss of power during a write cycle somehow corrupted the data such that my computer could no longer boot-up. I had to do a complete re-format using the WinXP restore CD.

    I didn't lose anything but some porn videos, but it was still annoying, so now I back 'em up on an external USB drive. ;-)

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