It's been sounding like a dead fan bearing in the rack for a while, there's really old machines in there. Turns out no! The drive did the screeching. I was stunned for a second when the noise stopped upon its removal.
Platter smoke. Don't breathe this!
That was ages ago, I wasn't thinking to try recording anything back then. It was some piece of shit desktop, I wanna say it had a 40GB hard drive.
Whoever tossed the system must have been attempting to wipe out their data in the most redneck way possible, shotgun.
They shot the side of the computer case, which partly protected the drive from the shotgun pellets, but it was still basically a direct hit to the HDD.
TL;DR - Sorry, no video ☹️