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I love that many of those sounds are still used in in modern movies. The seek sounds seem to particularly popular when in a NOC or during a hacking scene.

The best part is that I'm pretty sure the audio samples typically come from truly ancient full-height 5¼" stepper motor based drives.[0] The advent of voice coil actuated heads seriously helped quite hard drives.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSEfgESF_k




In the movie universe all the computers use spinning hard drives and every single car has wore its brake pads down to nothing.




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