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Those sounds irritated me to no end when the disk was thrashing because it meant that the computer was about to or had just became unresponsive. It also indica
by copperx 4y ago
Those sounds irritated me to no end when the disk was thrashing because it meant that the computer was about to or had just became unresponsive.
It also indicated insufficient caching. "Why is the disk spinning endlessly? I just clicked the open dialog! Did the OS suddenly forget about the 10 files that I have in my home folder?"
- sgtnoodle 4y agoI tried a windows ext2 filesystem driver once. It killed the drive after a few days, presumably from wildly moving the read head without any intelligent sequential movement scheduling.
- jraph 4y agoSeems coincidental. I would not expect a drive being killed after a few days only.
- systemvoltage 4y agoPeople get frustrated with progress bars too but that's kind of orthogonal to what I am saying. HDD thrashing around is not the problem with the feedback mechanism (that's working just fine), but the underlying equipment has failed. Progress bars are notoriously annoying when they just don't move! Don't hate the progress bar, blame the equipment. I know there are some fake progress bars out there...just shows that giving feedback is so important that people fake it even!
- Moru 4y agoThe fake progress bar is still filling a function. It shows the computer didn't completely freeze up. There was a time when that was a big question. Did my computer freeze up and I need to press the power button? The mouse cursor might be hidden on the loading screen so you have no idea if it's working or crashed.