Hard Drive noise

[snewham]

Thought I'd make my first topic in this section :P


My hard drive makes a terrible noise particularly when downloading porn which is normally late and night and wakes my parents up!!!


it's like a creaking, groaning noise. I heard you can put them in the freezer, does it actually work?


cheers
scottsta

[Alex]

Probably means it's on the way out, i would buy i new one and back it up asap.

Or download a SMART reader, http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

[Mystic]

In the freezer!?

Iv been told this drive means your drive is considering moving onwards & upwards. One of mine made a horrible noise for a while too but it stopped after about 6 months, Still works today!

[snewham]

it's all backed up on my external but I'm more worried about the noise :P

[snewham]

LOL!!!


http://www.arrowsmash.com/1hd.jpg

[Mystic]

I think eventually what cured mine was a long format. Make sure everything is backed up & format the drive (make sure you dont do a 'quick format') the format should take an hour or more then put a clean partition on & put all your stuff back on & see if its any better. :y:

[MTR]

It could be nothing, just excessive swapping if you have a low amount of system memory. With that said lots of noise does usually indicate a drive about to fail. If you have everything backed up it might be a good idea to format it to see if it makes it through and basically start the drive from scratch. I've saved a few that way. If it is on it's last legs though, it may fail halfway through.

[snewham]

ok, it was formatted about a month ago though. Just done a recent backup so I think I'll just leave it and see how it gets on :)

[steveo21]

freezer can help for some problems if the hard disk doesn't spin or is completely dead!!

[Chris]

You might need to replace the fan that cools the unit.

I had something simular on my work PC, so I called Desktop support... they came and replaced the fan and it's no longer noisey, plus it works faster now!

Chris :)

[Tammy_VTS]

more than likely on its way out dude! does it like spool up... like... constant spining up sound ?

[adsayer]

funny that, I thought mine was out but it turned out it was the graphics card fan.

[djmartin]

its on its way out bud the motor arm is the noise you hear clicking it does that to give you a warning kinda thing. first thing you will find your PC will start to take ages to load up and it will take ages to load up simple applications like WMP.

[adsayer]

funny that, I thought mine was out but it turned out it was the graphics card fan.

my graphics card fan has just died.









fuck.