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I don't think there any modern tech modern that can induce the stomach-turning horror of hearing hearing the pitiful, repetitive grinding of the floppy drive mo
by sangnoir 5y ago
I don't think there any modern tech modern that can induce the stomach-turning horror of hearing hearing the pitiful, repetitive grinding of the floppy drive motor that presaged a "Cyclic Redundancy Check error"
- nyanpasu64 5y agoDoes the hard drive click of death count?
- sangnoir 5y agoit comes close, but it's not as visceral to me. I guess it doesn't happen often to me, and considering how cheap storage has become, I can always download what was on the HDD or recover from backups. The data I had on floppy disks were more often than not, the only copy I had access to.
- HPsquared 5y agoThe CD drive repeatedly spinning up and down, then heading the head repeatedly seek to the same place.
- Arrath 5y agoI once had a CD shatter inside the drive, followed by sounding like a cross between an angle grinder against metal and a blender full of rocks. It was hideous.