[jorticka]

Many times you could also feel the hard disk vibrations through the desk.

[crazygringo]

Now that's got me wondering if you could replicate that through the haptic feedback component of e.g. MacBook trackpads.

I assume you could in theory? While in reality, there's probably no way for user software to access that part of the hardware directly?

[reactordev]

Core Haptics [0] my friend. It's been a staple for mobile game dev for a while. It also happens to work on the trackpad on macos. But please don't. I'm sure apple would probably veto the idea as well.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corehaptics/

[rootusrootus]

Back in the day I had an AST 386 with a Miniscribe full height 40MB drive. When it was being accessed steadily, you could actually see the desk shaking. It wasn't as bad on my earlier computer that only had a half-height ST225.

[Dalewyn]

Could?

I've got a NAS with five HDDs on my desk right now, you bet I can feel that when it goes thrashing.

[richev]

And hear them amplified through the sides of your "mini tower" case.

[mikercampbell]

I could smell this sound