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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. The age old question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    If a hard drive fails in an empty server room, does it make a sound?

  2. When mine crashed by retech · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it sounded like a certain female archetype singing