Sounds of Crashing Hard Drives

By The Fat Man
November 22, 2008 | Comments: 8

That's all it is. Links to recordings of hard drives crashing.

If I have to explain why that's cool, then I can't. If not, then I don't have to.

8 Comments

Dinah said:

Oh my thanks so much for the links.They are helpful and i was so much helped when my hard drive crashed and i lost my data.When my hard drive crashed,i was taught to always have backups somewhere else and i opted for online backups and i use www.safecopybackup.com for all my backups.They offer a free unlimited 3GB trial.So now if my hard drive crashes,am on a safer side.

June 5, 2010 2:56 AM

OreX said:

The links are broken. Could anyone repost? Thanks.

February 16, 2010 11:52 PM

fatman said:

Thanks.

The links seem to be working for me. Maybe your hard drive is broken, and so when you play the files, you aren't hearing anything unusual.

Or maybe my hard drive is broken, and I'm not actually hearing the audio files at all, just ambient crashing.

December 10, 2008 10:50 AM

eric said:

links are now bad
here's the original: http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

December 10, 2008 10:34 AM

Javelosa said:

Once again George, you prove to be more avant guarde than anyone else I know....!!

=dj=

December 6, 2008 9:32 AM

David Battino said:

Sometimes failure sounds more interesting than success, eh?

David "Cycling '74" Zicarelli once pointed out two electronic music genres that reflect that. Techno (I forget the exact subgenre he mentioned) has to do with precision and repeatability — the hallmark of machines working "correctly." Whereas glitch has to do with the breakdown of the machine and all the entertaining surprises that brings.

November 25, 2008 11:50 PM

Mark Walsen said:

These could serve as great sound clips for a horror flick for geeks.

November 25, 2008 10:00 PM

Mark Walsen said:

These could serve as great sound clips for a horror flick for geeks.

November 25, 2008 9:59 PM