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Is my hard drive gonna explode?!?!?
Mr. Dude:
Yeah, I think I will do a current backup just to be safe.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: Santoro on August 17, 2004, 01:53:49 pm ---Changes in disk noise are always bad. If the disk was quiet before and loud now, do a backup, and fast. It'll be dying in the next few months, IMHO.
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I concure. Noisy drive equals gunna' die. If it's clunky noises, then I'd say it's 100% on the way out. If it's high-pitched whining, then it may just be an older, louder drive. I'd say spend the tiny bit of extra cash and replace the drive either way.
Mr. Dude:
It's more the high pitched whining. It's like a reving up sound then backing off then reving up then backing off and then it gets quiet after windows loads... ya know now that I think of it, it seems to do it more from a cold start too (like if the machine has been off for a few hours to a day or so) if I turn it off then turn it back on a few minutes later it's not noisy.
SirPoonga:
How old is the drive? The 1 gig drive that I had in my set top mp3 box was noisy. Didn't realize how noisy until I put in the new 10 gig :)
Mr. Dude:
It's a 15 gig drive and it's got to at least be 4-5 years old or older.