Brand New Hard drive making beeping sounds?

lazerbrains

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Sep 28, 2011
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I had a 500 GB Lacie D2 Quadra, and it suddenly died. It no longer we being recognized by my computer and it was making a weird almost rhythmic hiss sound.

So I figured the drive was dead, and decided to replace the drive inside of the enclosure. I bought a Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive, to replace the Seagate Barracuda 500 GB drive that originally came in it. I just got it in the mail, and installed it in the D2 Quadra enclosure, and as soon as I turn it on it startes beeping repeatedly. One single beep over and over again, with the same amount of time in between beeps. I confirmed the beep is coming from the hard drive itself, not form the enclosure.

What could this be? Is it just a bad drive or could it mean something else?