all things considered: I actually miss the feeling of invoking a command and hearing your computer start grinding it's disks in a flurry of passion for doing what you asked.

I felt so powerful and it was so tactile that I can definitely imagine it was what provoked a life-long love of computers for a kid that felt that a life of obsequence was on the cards.

I have a synology and it's not the same, it's just annoying- the background processes of things these days makes the noise floor of such a thing (as listening to drive access) really high.

An external SATA-to-USB hard drive docking station will regularly spin up and blink, and make clicks as it writes to backup. A kind of automated fulfillment of those audio yearnings.