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HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity

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82 points starkparker | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 00:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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RedShift1 ◴[12 Jul 25 01:52 UTC] No.44538638[source]▶
There's probably a way to do this in software? Like some cars simulating engine noises through the speakers...
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bn-l ◴[12 Jul 25 02:32 UTC] No.44538813[source]▶
But then you need to install something. Probably give it some perm.
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1. palmotea ◴[12 Jul 25 04:28 UTC] No.44539311[source]▶
Not necessarily. You could do it in a similar form factor, you'd just probably need a bigger speaker and more complicated acoustic model.

Though maybe instead of keying of an HDD LED, it should sit on the IDE/SCSI bus and generate sounds based on the actual access commands. That shouldn't be impossible, since the main market would be in retro-computing, and there are already devices that emulate those disks. Instead of figuring out what block to return, it would instead figure out of how long of a seek would have been needed and play the right sound.

If someone produces something that can simulate the sound of a 20MB Miniscribe drive, I'd buy it in a heartbeat:

https://youtu.be/9gTiBYEY02E?si=arGdgyI7hCnmJgN4&t=1866