Gizmodo has posted the winners of an hilarious competiton to remix the sounds of a hard-drive dying into a song. Some of the runners-up rapped or sang, but the winner, James Postlethwaite's "Hitachi Hard-Drive Project – Noriko Version" turned out an eerie, ambient song that is as mournful as the death of a drive itself.
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