I grew up on the mid-1990s WD Caviar HDDs, and I’m wondering if there’s anything that’s louder at boot and data access.

  • bofh2023@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Not 3.5", but I had a 5.25 FULL height micropolis 140MB SCSI drive (yes MB).

    Thing was a boat anchor, but more relevant to the discussion here, when powered on, it would sound like a scene from topgun while it spun up. Crazy loud.

    It sadly died when I accidentally proved that you can indeed plug in a molex connector upside down, as long as your push hard enough (it just momentarily made contact, but that was enough to let the magic smoke out).