I recall once noticing that my hard drive was acting a little funny. Every few seconds, it would do a little work and flash my HDD light. This was an ancient version of Windows, and I wasn't running anything fancy in the background.

Turned out I had a virus.

The real red flag was the loud noise when your floppy drive got accessed without you doing anything.

i suppose in this modern age of ssd drives, we won't have these pleasures anymore. sad? perhaps.

Yup. I remember once with my desktop trying to figure out why it took like 10 seconds to access the D drive. I listened and could hear it trying repeatedly to whir up before it finally did. I don’t miss the tech but I miss the ambience.

I miss being able to troubleshoot a faulty drive by sound