Had to deal with it then because it was the only option, and until my late teens the only pc in the house was in the home office and it was never just left running.

Now that near silent machines are easy to achieve though, and my pc is right by my bed and on nearly 24/7, I see no need to suffer like I used to (it's also at least partly a sensory processing disorder thing, because I hear components most people never notice).

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 32 points 1 year 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 10 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Or building a flopinator to play music with

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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