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Not that exciting by hey... They are not as common as they used to be:
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blo ... -drive.htm

There is something immensely satisfying watching and listening to a robust and well functioning drive being exercised to hell by diagnostic software. Not sure why really, but it just is.

Yep totally understand. I actually have favourite drives just because I like the sound they make.
The whirl of a belt driven Tandon, or the clunk of a slightly over-engineered Shugart are my picks.

Good write up as always.

That distinctive sound of a Chinon in an Amiga... the tortured sound of the Alps mech in a 1541...

Yeah I know the one.