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Hard drive got really loud over night, help please!

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madman300

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I was using my computer last night before bed and when I woke up this morning i noticed the system had rebooted. I thought it wasnt a big deal. Once I logged in however, I noticed that the hard drive had trippled in volume when reading/writing data.

I am sure everyone knows the regular sound that using a hard drive entails (the hard drive crunch) now tripple that.

I figure the drive may be about to die. I do not mind because it is a 1 month old 300gb maxtor. I have all the data backed up and now I would rather have it die than have a drive this loud. I ran the drive through all of Maxtors test and burn in benchmarks and everything (about 4 different tests in around 7 hours) and everything came back as being fine.

Does anyone have any exerpience with this? Thoughts? Ideas?

thanks
madison
 
I think so... I bought two of these drives and this one is louder than the other. But I do not think I can RMA it on volume alone can I?
 
You could email Maxtor about rma for noise, don't know in the case of access noise. Constant noise usually means the bearings are going, and that is a death knell. Are both drives in the same machine?
 
I had a Maxtor 60GB DM+9 drive, that one time, when it spun up, it made a really LOUD sort of bearing-whine noise. Since it was a FDB-bearing drive, that wasn't normal, it should be virtually silent. Well, less than a week later, it failed catastrophically. Beware.
 
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