I'm starting to feel the same unexpected nostalgia for spinning hard drives as I feel for sodium vapor lighting.
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like yeah objectively these technologies kinda sucked, but they were a way we did things which had some impact on ambiance that's now fading just like we fade away as mortal beings.
most zoomers will never know what it's like to be outside at night in the snow when the entire town is lit by sodium lamps, just like many won't ever know what it's like to chillax in a cyberpunk lair among a bunch of quietly chittering hard drives (or bathed in the glow of CRTs, which are even more cyberpunk)
(I feel like HDDs are closer to steampunk or maybe dieselpunk while CRTs are closer to cyberpunk even though I believe the CRT was invented first by a large margin)
HDDs are mechanical contraptions, yes, but they're some of the most precise mechanical contraptions ever made on Earth.
I've heard stories of people designing missile guidance systems who were shocked by how much more precise disk drives are.
It's like what you'd expect to see on an alien starship, if the aliens distrust solid-state tech and like machines with moving parts, but are still as technologically advanced as you'd expect aliens with starships to be.
