[jinto36]

I feel like the bearing noise in pre-fluid-dynamic-bearing drives was an essential part of the experience, that this device doesn't recreate yet. A room full of warbly, sometimes harmonizing, gentle whirring of mid-90s Quantum drives had a certain vibe. Of course then, when an individual drive got too loud or too warbly it was a pretty good pre-emptive failure sign.

[dusted]

yeah, and large arrays of disks spinning just gave this awe-inspiring choir, it felt like massive computation was going on.. even though the silly block of iron basically did nothing :D