Sounds of dead harddrives

[UtwigMU]

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&org=hdd&doc=4B1A62A50F405D0D86256756006E340C

Link from IBM

[Tempest]

"DeathStar" drives indeed... Those sounds really sent chills up my spine.

[thop]

fecking scary

[Indiana]

Take a look at my signature...

[The PIT]

Well none the sounds match the sounds of three harddisks that I own over the years. Fixed each time by DFT programme.
Still IBM haven't made as many faulty hard drives as Fujistu have before they pulled out of the ide business.

[MrGaribaldi]

Hmm... That slow spindle motor.wav took me back to 97/98... 3 hdd's had the problem... 2 WD, 1 IBM...

I'm very glad I haven't heard those sounds since though, and I'm hoping I'll never hear it, nor the other sounds ever again!

[Dr Mordrid]

Got rid of my 4 IBM's before they got to that stage. Yecchhh....

Dr. Mordrid

[RichL]

Now I know what to use for the Windows system sounds on the computers at work

[Dr Mordrid]

Oooooo.....that's MEAN

Dr. Mordrid

[ZokesPro]

I don't want to sound anti-hdd here but those sounded really really cool! (the two bottom ones only)

[rugger]

Yep, they sound cool,

But I hope to never hear those sounds come out of a hard drive.

[Indiana]

Rugger, since you happen to have an IBM 60GXP hdd you're quite likely to hear these sounds. I have had the Hanging motor with one that died and another started doing it as well some time ago - still only after a cold boot, so I do not shut down the system anymore.

[VJ]

Are IBMs SCSI drives better ? I'm currently running an Ultrastar 36 LZX, and am thinking about buying another similar IBM harddisk...


Jörg

[Indiana]

Don't know. I have an old SCSI IBM DDRS drive and that works fine. But then the old IDE IBM HDs are said to work fine as well.

[SteveC]

can't get to the site - anyone wanna mirror the files for me pretty please?