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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SoulWeaver on 2023-12-02 00:03:06.
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The original weblog post with technical details
TL;DR: The song was unique that it used a slightly shifted tuning compared to standard musical scales. A low E in the shifted scale matched a 5400 rpm laptop drive’s resonant frequency, which caused the drive to error out on reads temporarily and eventually crash the OS.
