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Can you hear your HDD's seek noise?

As long as it doesnt irratate you and you dont see anything phyiscally wrong with it(i.e sparks and what not)you should be fine...
 
Yes, it's almost impossible not to hear the hdd when it's accessing the data either in read or write. Unless of course, it is located distant away from you.
 
i have a seagate 7200.7 and yes i can hear read/write noise. From reviews seagate is made out to be very quiet so i had high expectations, and after buying was disapointed as my seagate is fairly loud when doing alot of writes like installing large software.

It is however more reliable (well so far 8 months) than my old IBM deskstar hard disk which had bad sectors.
 
i have 2 80GB hdds. one WD800JB 7.2k 8mb drive as my primary that i barly hear and an old Maxtor 6L080J4 7.2k 8mb drive that i hear a lot when it's accsesing the drive. currently though, the loudest part of my system is my modded graphic card fan (my original broke and i had to replace it with this crappy old CPU fan) but i'm buying a new graphic card soon.
 
Hi, If you get your ear close enough to any drive you will probably hear the seek. A recalibrate is a little different. Drive does that on first read. It makes a more audible noise as it has to go all the way home and seek out to the desired track again. If it can't read at all it will keep trying about once per second. If recalibrating intermittently it could be having trouble reading. Also slows it down. Hope this helps a little, Jim
 
Never hear any of my internal drives. Each computer has three PATA and one SATA. The main reason is that the cases are under the desk on the floor - I don't hear much of anything from them except the initial booting beeps, etc.
 
yes. i was reading a book in the same room as the computer and had to leave to have some peace and quiet. i really need to make a quieter rig
 
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