Once it’s open you’ll need to locate the hard drive head — this is the small metal arm that looks kind of like a record player tone arm. It’s actually controlled by a coil, you know ...

Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are a commonplace garage solution for both personal and professional use. However, they may now not be proof against failures, which could result in enormous information loss.

Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly thrashing the heads back and forth.