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So, weird slightly related anecdote: My laptop I bought in 2014 came with a spinning rust hard drive, and I dual booted this machine Windows and Linux.

Since I can remember, (aka, Win 3.1) Windows always made a lot of noise with the hard drive. Start it loading something, like opening an application or something, and it would make this rapid, slightly random clicking noise with the hard drive access light just kinda spazzing out. On older, larger hard drives I remember it sounded like brewing coffee, like the bubble pump in a drip machine? Linux doesn't make that same sound, I guess it doesn't do a lot of frequent, scattered reads and writes to disk as Windows does?

Until I replaced the HDD with an SSD, I could tell which OS the laptop was running by listening to the hard drive.

Fuck me, if I could just get a silent computer it'd be great for my audio recording. I've built them in the past but you cant seem to get the same sort of massive heatsinks now for modern i7s and i9s.