Comment by Brajeshwar
1 year ago
No, no, no -- there is another sound round corner of one of those plates that can alter the course of your life. Be careful what you wish for.
The year was the early 2000s and the early years of my career. One fine morning, as I started up the work PC, it did its routine, including the HDD sound. I’m going to guess that sound was not the typical sound because that was the day the 2GB HDD (my guestimate, or it should be close to that size) decided to die on me, never to wake up again.
I went from the usual computer repair services to a few people’s homes who had advertised that they could “repair crashed hard drives” but failed. I remember the Bombay heat, the sweaty and frustrating walk asking for addresses in Lokhanwala, Andheri West, Bombay.
That took down all of my work and is one thing I will never forget. That taught me to have backups, and I didn’t break a sweat when a similar one happened in 2005. It wasn’t enjoyable, but I had pretty much everything backed up.
Yes, there is indeed a sound as lovely as it is, but a dreadful one that you will remember. Be careful.
> I remember the Bombay heat
There were some hard drives which you shall have placed in a fridge and then, before they get hot, had some chance to recover some data.
With Fireball, i think, the only option was to find another drive with good electronics, of the same size, because the motor controller was destroyed.