Comment by palmotea

1 day ago

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: