• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago

    Did a bot/AI write this? No drive sounded like that. Something wrong with the drive if it screamed at you. That‘s the modem. A floppy sounded like a robo-chicken. BROOoonnk -buk-buk-buk BRooonnk BrROooonk-buk-buk….

  • rosco385@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    This post reminds me of the savage joy I felt the first time I fired up a 1u server. Those screaming fans were just chef’s kiss

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Glad those days are gone. These days, a bit of coil whine can get annoying, though luckily my current GPU doesn’t suffer from it.

    I spent extra on getting quiet fans and haven’t had an HDD for almost a decade now.

    Those Be Quiet! fans are pretty good btw. Difference between the two that look the same but have different names is one is optimized for air movement while the other is optimized to generate static pressure. Run your fans such that there’s a slightly positive pressure and you’ll drastically reduce dust buildup… But you don’t need the pressure optimized fans to do that, just more intake than exhaust will do so (assuming they are all set to the same speed and are the same size).

    • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      On the other hand, actual line printers worked exactly like they look in movies.

      But yeah those 9 pin dot matrix printers…24 pin was better, but still pretty loud. I remember visiting a college library during a field trip, and they had an inkjet (I think it was actually a Bubblejet) and it was like, “WOW LOOK HOW QUIET THAT IS!”

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      2 days ago

      Good thing I never needed to print anything in privacy back then. Those were loud screeching buzzing machines and we just accepted it as normal.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Ours shook the table but was on so badly that the legs came unbolted over the years.

        Then we got a StyleWriter and it was magic even 1/2 page per minute in color!

    • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      The screeching cry of a long dead apex predator followed by “Welcome! You’ve got mail!”

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    It was wonderful, I miss being able to hear my hard drive doing stuff, it was a really handy audible indicator.

  • Technotica@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    You guys are too young. Back in the early 80s computer didn’t make any noise. A C64 was quiet as a mouse, so was an Amiga 500. The only noise it made was the ticking of the disk drive. (Usually no HDD in those and no fans)

    I have both at home right now, and I am always wishing my gaming rig next to them would be that quiet, and not sound like a hoover going into overdrive.

    Ah, nostalgia. Now, where are my rose tinted glasses?

    p.s. Oh yeah I forgot about the monitor whine, but hey that’s because I have a permanent tinnitus that sounds exactly the same and usually tune it out… wonder where I got it from?

  • saigot@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    2 days ago

    I can still hear the harddrives spin up when someone starts watching something on my homelab. I do miss the clickies, I wonder if you could hook up the disk activity led to a speaker to create fake clicks.

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Depends on what it was thinking about really. The really rapid clicking noise was generally the mechanical hard drive heads seeking and moving quickly. You could tell if it had been thinking too hard for too long when the mechanical drive sounded like it had sneezed quietly (I’m not joking), that’s when you started to back stuff up rather quickly.

      The more single-tone longer-note experience was generally reserved for the floppy disks.

      The quiet mechanical spin-up noise was often an optical drive spinning the media - usually a CD - up to it’s normal reading speed, and you quickly forgot about it.

      If it sounded like it was thinking like a early morning bird with a hangover, they were reminiscent of the early 90min tape drives. More industrial drives didn’t make that noise thankfully.

      The aircraft engine type noise was generally one or more of the case fans giving it some VTEC love to cool a component that was running hot, or if someone smashed the Turbo button.