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You know how some electric cars create fake engine noise at low speeds to avoid sneaking up on pedestrians? I wish that was an option with SSDs. A little speak
by function_seven 6y ago
You know how some electric cars create fake engine noise at low speeds to avoid sneaking up on pedestrians?
I wish that was an option with SSDs. A little speaker included with the package that I could toggle on. All it does it make fake HDD sounds. Bonus if those sounds match the underlying logical distance and “shape” of the read/write activity.
- detaro 6y agoI wonder if one could make something driven purely by the diskactivity LED that's mildly convincing
- _Nat_ 6y agoSeems like a quirky-fun sorta project! If you've got an SSD connected by a power cord, presumably you could insert an electric-current-meter to see how much power it's drawing, then hook up a speaker to make corresponding sounds. Maybe also put a temperature probe inside of the SSD's box (perhaps directly on a controller-IC?), then another probe just outside of the SSD's box (or inside of it, but away from the controller-IC?), then use that temperature difference too? A software solution would probably be easier, but then you'd have to trust the system to give correct information, which I guess would defeat the point. Someone who'd really want to go at this might make their own controller to place between the motherboard and SSD. But unless it's passive/transparent, allowing the normal SSD driver to be used, that'd seem to require writing a driver for the controller too.
- johnchristopher 6y agoMight still be working https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/ https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/