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i've certainly crouched on the floor next to a server listening to the disks and trying to work out what the hell they were doing!
by zabzonk 3y ago
i've certainly crouched on the floor next to a server listening to the disks and trying to work out what the hell they were doing!
- NBJack 3y agoI recall once noticing that my hard drive was acting a little funny. Every few seconds, it would do a little work and flash my HDD light. This was an ancient version of Windows, and I wasn't running anything fancy in the background. Turned out I had a virus.
- zabzonk 3y agoi suppose in this modern age of ssd drives, we won't have these pleasures anymore. sad? perhaps.
- jasonfarnon 3y agoThe real red flag was the loud noise when your floppy drive got accessed without you doing anything.
- Waterluvian 3y agoYup. I remember once with my desktop trying to figure out why it took like 10 seconds to access the D drive. I listened and could hear it trying repeatedly to whir up before it finally did. I don’t miss the tech but I miss the ambience.
- nunez 3y agoI miss being able to troubleshoot a faulty drive by sound