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    Get your new system sounding old

    lol

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZKttBr2Y8g
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    #2
    Re: Get your new system sounding old

    Yeah I figure someone would have productized something like this.

    really should do it in software (OS "driver" application and play through sound card. OS knows more about access patterns than LED and hence can better emulate), however, there's a limit to what it should sound like as SSDs are way faster than any hard disk in terms of seek, and there's only really so much one can do to emulation...what exactly should the emulation policy be?

    Then if it's done in software it's real easy to change the policy and sound!

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      #3
      Re: Get your new system sounding old

      I don't think I need to get that to make my system sound "old" - it already does / is.

      FYI, this is still my DD PC:
      https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...&postcount=775

      I do need to do something about my HDD situation on that machine, though - only around 900 MB of free space left on the 80 GB HDD.

      Oh, and for those of you who love old HDD sounds, here's this :
      https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...1&postcount=50

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        #4
        Re: Get your new system sounding old

        I still run the noisy old scsi disks as much as I can. I am all for authenticity.....but not sure I'd buy that. I'm much more in favor of the 'gurgling' sound when I pop somebody with a quad-damaged rocket in GLQuake1.
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          #5
          Re: Get your new system sounding old

          I'm still running period-correct drives in my old computers except for one (the one where I tried a SATA to IDE converter and found that it performs horribly - I don't think that computer is worth the $42 for the converter that's supposed to work with VIA chipsets). That computer had a quiet hard drive in it anyway.

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            #6
            Re: Get your new system sounding old

            Need to make one that simulates the old Miniscribe 3425 including the platter spinning *LOL* (again, not sure what it should translate to its 80ms average access time *screeeeech*)

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              #7
              Re: Get your new system sounding old

              ^Ah yes, the sound of spinning platters, can't leave that out either.

              FWIW, here's how my good ol' NetServer E800 used to sound before the mobo gave up the ghosts:
              https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...1&d=1518674575

              Info on the sound file here:
              https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...3&postcount=41

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                #8
                Re: Get your new system sounding old

                that indeed sounded familiar, have a cheetah 10K disk as well, and sort of sounds like one of the disks...

                but you haven't lived until you heard the Miniscribe 3425... ah this brings back memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P-pYMsTSKw

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