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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. 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
  5. 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...

  6. For not so failing drives by RyoShin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Radiohead's Nude, done with old hard drives and other hardware. Even if you're not a fan of Radiohead, I think it's worth a watch just to see the setup in action.

    (And don't worry, only the hard drives get "nude", so it's SFW.)

  7. Seagate and Quantumfunkel by Alarindris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hello hard drive, my old friend.
    I've come to boot you up again,
    Because a vision softly creeping
    Left its seeds while I was sleeping
    And the vision that was planted in my brain
    Still remains
    Within the sound of failure.

    In restless dreams I walked alone.
    Narrow halls of servers drone
    neath the halo of an office lamp.
    I lay my forehead gently in my hand
    When my ears were stabbed by the grinding of
    A faulty drive
    That split the night
    And touched the sound of failure.

  8. 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