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For sure! Didn't old hard-drives use to make sounds as well?

by TruthWillHurt 4y ago

TruthWillHurt 4y ago
Oh yea they did! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xXihb8hv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xXihb8hv8
- voxadam 4y ago
  I love that many of those sounds are still used in in modern movies. The seek sounds seem to particularly popular when in a NOC or during a hacking scene. The best part is that I'm pretty sure the audio samples typically come from truly ancient full-height 5¼" stepper motor based drives.[0] The advent of voice coil actuated heads seriously helped quite hard drives. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSEfgESF_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSEfgESF_k
  - willcipriano 4y ago
    In the movie universe all the computers use spinning hard drives and every single car has wore its brake pads down to nothing.
- hnbad 4y ago
  I don't know what the point of recording all of these was when the person recording it noisily breathes or sharply inhales during several of them. It was probably a lot of effort to record all of these but it's sad to see that effort go to waste because of a bad recording setup.
ilyt 4y ago
I remembered the sound it made on boot so well I could tell something's fucky when it changed...
Damogran6 4y ago
I remember feeling the side of the case on an unresponsive machine to feel if the harddisk was seeking. It was often the difference between a reboot and a 'give it more time, it's just busy'
- bombcar 4y ago
  Yep - the happy noises and a flickering HDD LED were the key signs it was still chugging away. If the drive was silent and/or the LED was solid on, probably time for a reboot.
UI_at_80x24 4y ago
Yes, but more specifically any IBM-XT clone made during POST is a specific sound that you hear in almost every movie/tv show as "generic PC sounds". It was mostly the hard drive of course (RLL drives IIRC), but the system as a whole had a unique sound.
gibspaulding 4y ago
Even relatively new ones can be pretty loud. I used to have a little home server with an array of Hittachi Ultrastars and they would make quite a racket during ZFS scrubs.
- doubled112 4y ago
  I replaced 4x4TB disks with a 10T helium drive, and was shocked at the noise it made. The build went from nearly silent to keep my wife up at night. There is a certain thunk-thunk-thunk sound they make, which was awful, but I'm almost positive the 10T disk managed to resonate through the front panel and use it to make itself known. I don't think I can blame the disk for that second part.
guenthert 4y ago
My first HDD (Micropolis 65MB with RLL controller) was screaming with a pitch depending on the track. Blessed be SSDs.

For sure! Didn't old hard-drives use to make sounds as well?

TruthWillHurt 4y ago

Oh yea they did! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xXihb8hv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xXihb8hv8

voxadam 4y ago
I love that many of those sounds are still used in in modern movies. The seek sounds seem to particularly popular when in a NOC or during a hacking scene. The best part is that I'm pretty sure the audio samples typically come from truly ancient full-height 5¼" stepper motor based drives.[0] The advent of voice coil actuated heads seriously helped quite hard drives. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSEfgESF_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSEfgESF_k
- willcipriano 4y ago
  In the movie universe all the computers use spinning hard drives and every single car has wore its brake pads down to nothing.
hnbad 4y ago
I don't know what the point of recording all of these was when the person recording it noisily breathes or sharply inhales during several of them. It was probably a lot of effort to record all of these but it's sad to see that effort go to waste because of a bad recording setup.

ilyt 4y ago

I remembered the sound it made on boot so well I could tell something's fucky when it changed...

Damogran6 4y ago

I remember feeling the side of the case on an unresponsive machine to feel if the harddisk was seeking. It was often the difference between a reboot and a 'give it more time, it's just busy'

bombcar 4y ago
Yep - the happy noises and a flickering HDD LED were the key signs it was still chugging away. If the drive was silent and/or the LED was solid on, probably time for a reboot.

UI_at_80x24 4y ago

Yes, but more specifically any IBM-XT clone made during POST is a specific sound that you hear in almost every movie/tv show as "generic PC sounds". It was mostly the hard drive of course (RLL drives IIRC), but the system as a whole had a unique sound.

gibspaulding 4y ago

Even relatively new ones can be pretty loud. I used to have a little home server with an array of Hittachi Ultrastars and they would make quite a racket during ZFS scrubs.

doubled112 4y ago
I replaced 4x4TB disks with a 10T helium drive, and was shocked at the noise it made. The build went from nearly silent to keep my wife up at night. There is a certain thunk-thunk-thunk sound they make, which was awful, but I'm almost positive the 10T disk managed to resonate through the front panel and use it to make itself known. I don't think I can blame the disk for that second part.

guenthert 4y ago

My first HDD (Micropolis 65MB with RLL controller) was screaming with a pitch depending on the track. Blessed be SSDs.