Bravo Serge 😀

New enclosure design :

dude, stop teasing and start delivering! 😜 😁
I'm already overhyped about this. 😅

Expect to ship by end of October
https://www.serdashop.com/HDDClicker

Seems like this is a musthave item indeed ! 😄
Even theregister has picked this up....
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/30/hdd_clicker/

dreamblaster wrote on 2022-10-15, 13:50:

Expect to ship by end of October
https://www.serdashop.com/HDDClicker

Sweet! Pre-order submitted! 😁

This should come in really handy with systems that don't have LED HDD indicators.

Installed into my S754 Athlon 64 System, make SSDs Sound great again !

5 mins after I install one, I'm gonna want an analog meter on the front panel as a rate counter/percent disk activity, though of course it's gotta look like it's counting Roentgens...

Like this?

Yeah probably, the big old bakelite gauges that look practically steampunk have passed from obsolete crap pricing to high value collectable these days so stereo level meter type doohickey it will probably be.

Though I've got a bunch of LED bar displays... should brain around how to use those, discharge of a cap, time constants, something like that.

I used NOS tuning dials for this one, with a big electrolytic across the meter and a variable resistor plus a diode in between the meter and the HDD LED output. The LED can remain parallel to it because these meters use very little current. It would be cool to find proper old microamp meters but they are hard to find nowadays. I bought these 80’s meters already 20 years ago in an old school electronics shop.

digistorm wrote on 2022-10-20, 10:11:

I used NOS tuning dials for this one, with a big electrolytic across the meter and a variable resistor plus a diode in between the meter and the HDD LED output. The LED can remain parallel to it because these meters use very little current. It would be cool to find proper old microamp meters but they are hard to find nowadays. I bought these 80’s meters already 20 years ago in an old school electronics shop.

That's cool, glad you saved them!
My father still has a few of them, too, I think.
He feels the same about "Schauzeichen", which drew very little power..

Edit: Picture added. They also made a soft "click" sound, btw.

Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ste … jump-to-license

https://thedialist.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/t … icator-project/

or build this 😀

Totally Fantastic! It brings some sould to the "dead" hard disk 😀

Final PCB in

what does that button do, is it an on/off button?

OId MFM drive spinup and head step motor whine wanted!

Jura Tastatura wrote on 2022-10-28, 19:41:

what does that button do, is it an on/off button?

it is a test button, when you press it makes harddisk sound

connections explained

all pre-orders shipped

enclosure design finalized