The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives 205
zzptichka sends along a link to recordings of typical sounds from 35 different failing and dying hard drives. The host of these sounds, Datacent, is in the business of data recovery, so presumably they have heard it all.
Anonymous Coward (Score:5, Funny)
Pah, I've been hearing those sounds for ages and my computer's carrying on regardl
Ring tone one is awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Man, how creepy would that be?
I bet it got reported as a "virus".
Worst Yanni album (Score:5, Funny)
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Bird sounds (Score:5, Funny)
A colleague of mine once demonstrated his bad hard drive as follows: "If I want to load that file, it starts singing." And indeed, the hard drive sang like a bird, but the file was never loaded.
The sound of being modded troll (Score:4, Funny)
Involves a penguin being smashed through the Window while squashing apples and ripping up an encyclopedia then setting a fox on fire.
but.. (Score:2, Funny)
do they make sound if there is no admin around to hear it?
Thanks (Score:4, Funny)
Re:but.. (Score:5, Funny)
April 1st prank/test material (Score:5, Funny)
Setup one of these to play on a computer of your local BOFH and see if he/she is sharp enough to realize that the WD disk in his box cannot make the sound of a failing Maxtor...
Next Slashdot story: (Score:4, Funny)
The sound of slashdotted servers.
Re:In all my years. (Score:4, Funny)
Either you're lucky, or I'm the opposite outlier to balance things out. I've had disks from all manufacturers fail on me, after using them 24/7 for a while. It's tempting to blame the cooling, but they weren't especially warm - I guess it's just a side effect of using a desktop drive harder and more than intended.
On the positive side, I haven't had any problems for a while now ...
(And now that I've said that, I fully expect to come home and find at least one drive having caught fire.)
Re:The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives (Score:5, Funny)
The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
If a geek cries out in agony, but nobody is there to hear it, has he made a sound?
Or, until someone opens the basement door, is he like Schrödinger's cat: both screaming and not screaming?
The sound nightmares are made of. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives (Score:2, Funny)
The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
No, that one will be of a Falling Hard Drive
Re:Play several of the recordings simultaneously! (Score:5, Funny)
It's almost musical. In an avant-garde sort of way.
+1 UserIsHigh
Re:But you can't dance to it (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Sounds bad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ring tone one is awesome (Score:3, Funny)
What do you mean by the "ring tone one"?
Re:The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives (Score:2, Funny)
The Chainsaw (Score:2, Funny)
Smell of failing drive (Score:2, Funny)
You young whipper snappers talk of the sound of failing drives. I remember and can never forget the smell of failing drives. When you get the call that the system wont boot up and you walk into the computer room to the very distinct smell of a head crash on a 14" platter. You ask the operator "where are the backup disks?" and she says "I tried them all and none of them will work". Oh crap she just trashed the backups.
Re:Thanks (Score:2, Funny)
Your effort to stay within the 'boring' guideline is commendable.
Ironically... (Score:5, Funny)
about 10 minutes ago, all of their hard drives started making those "bad bearing" noises.
Then they realized they'd been slashdotted and the servers were melting.
Think we can get them to record the sound of a server dying to Slashdot Effect?
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny)
I've been hearing those sounds from my wife for ages. Should I be worried?
Re:Sounds bad (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny)
Might be time to upgrade to wife 2.0. Newer versions may require some customizing and setup but as a geek, that can be kinda fun. Until she blue screens on your for upgrading her incorrectly.