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Hearing the disk going used to be an auditory cue too, which is now gone thanks to solid state drives.
by canjobear 5y ago
Hearing the disk going used to be an auditory cue too, which is now gone thanks to solid state drives.
- reader_mode 5y agoYes, I miss that calming crackle telling me that my PC didn't lock up and it's just chugging along. And the floppy boot sound. Objectively worse but still nostalgic.
- FredPret 5y agoLike the demonic scream of a dot matrix printer
- ianlevesque 5y agoOccasionally with catastrophic results https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239268-spotify-may-killing-ssd https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239268-spotify-may-kil... That said, I don’t miss the noise or slowness.