[NoPicklez]

Growing up with those beige deeping beasts I always remember the activity indicators going wild. They also seemed to make more noise during HDD activity.

The drive mechanism sounds were they just louder back then or? You can put a HDD in a PC and it won't make the same grinding noises the old ones used to

[EvanAnderson]

Older hard disk drives had a more melodic sound to their seeking, to my ear. My first PC with a hard disk drive had an ST-251. That had a very distinctive, almost musical sound.