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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:Anonymous Coward by rrohbeck · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nonsense. I've been an engineer in the field for many years and there is no way of damaging a drive by software short of loading wrong firmware into it - which requires a file from the manufacturer with the correct checksums in place. The only other options would be by doing excessive seeks (due to bad drive design leading to wearout) or excessive start/stops (but if you listen to 10,000 of them and don't do anything about it it's your own fault.)

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