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i dont know about you guys but i kinda like the clicking noise from my keyboard, and like heels and stuff its pretty epic

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[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I miss loud harddrive sounds. Sometimes you thought the pc crashed, and suddenly it would rev up and you'd go:"heck yeah, tubular."

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Or building a flopinator to play music with

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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