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		kergonath 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting from a vinyl record (2020) > By the hearing alone, you may spot problems. I still have PTSD from those Zip drives. You could hear your data disappearing into nothingness as you watched powerless the drive hacking away at your cartridge.

Lutzb 7 days ago [–]

Same with QiC80 drives. You could hear when the drive failed to read data.

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