{"id":1260,"date":"2010-04-23T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2010-04-23T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:31:31","slug":"hard-drive-guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/hard-drive-guts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Drive Guts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I'm killing this platter slowly with a screwdriver, and it never sounded so good.<\/p><\/div>\n

Nothing puts Moore’s Law<\/a> in perspective like ripping an 80 gigabyte hard drive out of an enclosure and swapping with a 2 terabyte<\/em> drive. 80GB isn’t even big enough to act as a Photoshop<\/a> scratch disk in 2010.<\/p>\n

It’s not new ground<\/a> by any means, but I did get some pretty interesting results, ranging from IDM<\/a>-like chirps and squeaks to all sorts of weird drive vocalizations when I slowed the platter down with a screwdriver – much to my surprise, the damn thing came to a stop, jittered around, and then spun right back up again. Most of the sounds were pretty subtle (perfect for the MKH 50<\/a>), surprisingly, but with lots of surprises.\u00c2\u00a0[I shot video of the whole thing, a still of which can be seen above, but really, a hard drive spinning is not<\/strong> that interesting. Trust me on this one.]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I had a great time until Chuck Russom<\/a> suggested on Twitter<\/a> what might happen if the 7200rpm drive would have come loose…<\/p>\n

These sounds have only been normalized and no sound processing has been applied.<\/p>\n

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\n[Sennheiser MKH 50 microphone into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing puts Moore’s Law in perspective like ripping an 80 gigabyte hard drive out of an enclosure and swapping with a 2 terabyte drive. 80GB isn’t even big enough to act as a Photoshop scratch disk in 2010. It’s not new ground by any means, but I did get some pretty interesting results, ranging from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,4],"tags":[194,10,195,75,133,196,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}