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Is Your Hard Disk Making Strange Clicking Sounds?
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog —
... Data Cent, a data recovery firm who probably know more about noisy hard drive than anyone else, has created a useful resource with sounds from hard drives of different manufactures and what these sounds indicate ...
Hard Drive Failure Soundboard Guarantees Debilitating Flashbacks [Ptsd]
Gizmodo —
... has put together an extensive collection of recordings of popular hard drives failing. This might sound pretty boring, but it isn't just bunch of typical of click-click-bzzzzz heartbreakers — a lot of these sounds are downright bizarre. Who knew that Maxtor drives play a song when their spindles fail? Or that failing Hitachi Deskstars wrote every Autechre track, ever? Or that Toshiba laptop drives are actually screeching Helldemons with an acute sense of pain? [ ...
Sonidos de discos duros
Gizmología —
... ¿Tu disco duro hace un ruido extraño? Casi siempre suelen ser melodías anunciando la muerte de los discos duros, pero siempre hay excepciones. En HardDrive Sounds hay una lista de sonidos que hacen y que significan. (Vía ...
The horrifying sounds of broken hard drives
CrunchGear —
... What’s one of the scariest sounds you can hear come out of your computer? How about the telltale clicking of a broken hard drive? Once you hear that click-click-click you know it’s game over. Hope you backed up your data. ...
Hear a Dying HD and Backup your Data
HardMac.com —
Most of us have been already facing a HD failure, demonstrating how backup of your data are so essential.
If you want to be trained to recognize the sound of a dying HD, Datacent has made available a library of the typical noises produced by the unit when it is reaching its end of life. Interesting information, especially for those who never experienced a HD crash.
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Failing hard drive sounds
Hack a Day —
... Not all hard drives fail the same way. DataCent, a data recovery service based in Canada, has an impressive archive of failing hard drive sounds. If you’re ever in doubt about whether your hard drive needs help, this is your guide. From bad heads to stuck spindles, bad hard drives click, grind, hum, and scratch. It’s almost musical in its regularity. Who will be the first person to string of these samples together into a ringtone or techno song. ...
Sound archive of broken HDDs - DJ Tech Geek, spin those wheels
Tech Digest —
... Sound archives are wonderfully geeky things and none come geekier than that belonging to Canadian data recovery company Date Cent. So much time have they spent with broken HDDs, so many hours scouring those spinning discs that they've actually compiled an encyclopedia of what each and every model sounds like when bust... ...
Hard Drives Dying Moans
Boing Boing —
From a repair shop comes a collection of the sounds of hard drives failing. Their last words, their dying moans.
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. -- S. J Perelman
These are noises that will please the ears of circuit benders everywhere. I kind of like the Maxtor drive "with stuck spindle and musical siren." Kind of like a John Cage piece.
The sound of dying drives
MAKE Magazine —
MAKE publisher and BoingBoing guest blogger Dale Dougherty points out this collection of unhappy hard drive sound clips you may be all too familiar with.
These are the last words of devices which will hopefully find new life as wind chimes clocks and more good stuff. Could be fun to build a percussive sample set out of these! [via BoingBoing]
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