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Yes, my hard disc at that time (similar experience) was more silent. The sound is either exaggerated or from some even older 5.25" disc.

• wazoox 5y ago
  I still have in a drawer some 80 GB and 250 GB Maxtor drives that are really that loud. I remember when I replaced by 80GB root disk with a 1 TB HGST one, the sudden silence in my office...
  • junon 5y ago
    I miss it to be honest. All of the computer-ey sounds made it a lot of fun, and it's not something I thought I'd miss until they were gone. Every once in a while I hear my AIO spin up and some water start moving around and that's nice (not sure if it's supposed to do that but it's done it since day one). But that's all I have to look forward to other than the fan noise.
    • ktpsns 5y ago
      You can perfectly build a noisy tower computer in 2021, with lots of fans and of course the good old hard discs (instead of SSDs). :-)