The sounds of a dying Western Digital hard drive, including cooling fan spin-up, drive spin up, and then the click click clicking of doom.
This is the sound of my WD10000D033-001 failing on me.
This is the sound of 1TB of my backup data, gone.
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
0:29.977
File size
2.5 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Mono
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unfa
4 years, 6 months ago
It has a rhythm to it, you know...
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istvan_bracz
6 years, 7 months ago
ugh...I know that sound ALL too well... :-(
Good recording, though.
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Mewgia
11 years, 3 months ago
knowing that this is a harddrive, this is one of the scariest sounds ive ever heard...
Timbre
15 years, 11 months ago
It could be used to make a tune e.g. ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4 :-)
LG
15 years, 11 months ago
That is quite dramatic...
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