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I miss loud harddrive sounds. Sometimes you thought the pc crashed, and suddenly it would rev up and you'd go:"heck yeah, tubular."
Nothing's keeping you from throwing a complete of old disks in your tower and through the power of zfs making an awesome raid for backups
Or building a flopinator to play music with
Compact Flash cards are popular as an HDD replacement in retro computing -- with the downside of no sound.
Luckily people have made a device to emulate the sound of a real hard drive.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
a device to bring back the sound of a real hard drive.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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