Do you know the sound of a dying hard drive? It sounds bad. Really bad. But, as a hard drive owner, you don’t expect to hear bad sounds like that for many years.
I heard those sounds yesterday. I got really worried. I spent hours running disk checks, diagnostic routines, etc. to determine what might be leading to this imminent failure. Had a hacker gained access to my machine through yet another javascript exploit (NEVER RUN WITH JAVASCRIPT ON BY DEFAULT) and was now doing evil things to the drive (writing random data to random sectors to corrupt drive integrity).
Nope. Turns out a loose cable was banging against a fan causing a sound to occur that was exactly like that of a dying drive. If only I had contacted Snuggles, the wonder IT cat to walk me through my debug checklist…. if only….
Sounds familiar.
