[mwest]

Hah! Something to replace https://www.twitch.tv/twitchdefrags/ which seems to have stopped broadcasting. Now we just need the right sound. :-)

[centerorbit]

Creator here: I'm working with an audio engineer to offer a selection of sounds from WD to Seagate to SSD (current default). I first tried to just use old samples but the quality just wasn't good enough.

[simcop2387]

I'd recommend some of the classic deathstar disks and their click of death, just so those of us with PTSD can relive it.

[Sunspark]

I have a deathstar in the basement. It was working last time I placed it in its cardboard grave of obsolescence. Who knows what would happen if I powered it up today?

I don't really know what to do with all my old hard drives. I love SSDs because they don't vibrate and make noise.

[hansel_der]

hehe just tried a 10y+ HDD of mine. put on PATA-USB adaptor *bam* works! the noise is somewhat unsettling thou, maybe that i am just not used to it anymore.

i REALLY wonder if a SSD would still work after lying unpowered for ten years, they are made of capacitors after all ...

[r1ch]

Don't recall if this was a deathstar but it certainly clicked. Warning, loud!

https://r-1.ch/hdd.mp3

[aidenn0]

I associate click of death with IOMega drives

[randombits0]

You can recreate Micropolis SCSI drives by dropping a marble in a coffee can.

[pixelat3d]

Yeah, sorry. My ISP decided it didn't want me to keep that alive anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯