Tired of the silence of SSDs? This card brings hard disk noise back to life

SSDs have revolutionized the storage component of our computers: they are far faster than the old mechanical disks, more resistant and absolutely silent. Conversely, by issuing the classic noise in writing and readingthe hard-disk they could “tell us” what they were doing, describing the activities in progress at all times. Anyone who was nostalgic for it or needed to hear the activities of their solid state drive can now do so with HDD Clicker.

Shown by Matthias Werner, an enthusiast of all things retro computing, HDD Clicker a card worth 25 euros that is defined as both nostalgic and useful. Nostalgic because it brings to life a sound with which many of us (especially those aged 30 and over) have grown up; useful because it offers auditory feedback – as already mentioned – of all data access activities and read and write transfers that an otherwise very quiet SSD is performing.

Nostalgic for the sound of hard drives? A small card can recreate it

HDD Clickerin fact, it not only emits the typical sound of old HDDs, but it does so in sync with the activities that the SSD installed in the system is doing. The very simple design: a four PIN connector for the power supply and input and output connectors for the HDD LEDs which, connected to a small piezoelectric speaker, generate a sound similar to that of hard-disks, being able to recover the writing and reading activities SSD (or other drive) present in the system.

In 2022, completely silent fanless computers are no longer rare, and the last thing we would like to have in our system is a noise like the one proposed by Werner’s ticket. However, HDD Clicker could be well accepted for retro computing projects, where the silence of an SSD (or a memory card, for example) would be quite out of place when loading the operating system or opening any application. installed.

Anyone interested in the project and wishing to build one can get all the relevant information through this video on YouTube or This Page. The less experienced can buy the card already ready for use on Serdashopwith a price starting from 25 euros.

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