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Is there a safe (software) way to make a hard drive click more?

sandvich64
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Stop these weird posts already ?

 

dont make your hdd click more, play server sounds on speaker if you want your pc to sound like a server.

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Ah, I see you're looking to recreate the floppotron

 

PSA: This is not something you should do with your current hardware, especially not when there is important data on it

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Clicking is NOT good for your HDD. Play something on your speakers or something. You posted like 4 other threads in the last hour or so. Why are you actually trying to make your pc sound so much? And chill a bit with the threads, or just combine everything into one later on.

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1 minute ago, DankDeuxez said:

Clicking is NOT good for your HDD. Play something on your speakers or something. You posted like 4 other threads in the last hour or so. Why are you actually trying to make your pc sound so much? And chill a bit with the threads, or just combine everything into one later on.

boi i can ask whatever i want as long as i dont break the rules

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13 minutes ago, sandvich64 said:

clicking is completely normal in hard drives at least from the stuff ive read

To an extent, yes. The clicking sound one can hear from HDDs is usually the drive-head parking itself. Alas, you don't want it parking itself all the time, because it can wear things out and damage the drive -- I have a Seagate 2TB HDD that has a way over-zealous power-management, which causes the head to park itself every couple of seconds; there are a shitton of complaints about this HDD because the constant parking and unparking causes a lot of bad sectors rather quickly. My drive lasted only a couple of months before I started getting a fuckton of bad sectors.

 

This is to say: sure, you can do it, if you like, but you should then use a drive you don't care about to do it.

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Just now, UrbanFreestyle said:

you have been reading the wrong things! if you want your computer to sound like a server. build a server.

Asking loads of posts for the loudest fans and loudest hdd etc is all a bit odd.

im just bored and cant sleep and my Internets faulty so i really have nothing else to do

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