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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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What's the world's Loudest EIDE/PATA 3.5" HDD? (alien.top)

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I grew up on the mid-1990s WD Caviar HDDs, and I'm wondering if there's anything that's louder at boot and data access.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not 3.5", but I had a 5.25 FULL height micropolis 140MB SCSI drive (yes MB).

Thing was a boat anchor, but more relevant to the discussion here, when powered on, it would sound like a scene from topgun while it spun up. Crazy loud.

It sadly died when I accidentally proved that you can indeed plug in a molex connector upside down, as long as your push hard enough (it just momentarily made contact, but that was enough to let the magic smoke out).