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Hard Drive making wierd sounds when accessing

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OmniShinzui

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Yeah, in the last two days, when accessing my secondary drive, which has all my media and data files (Music, Video, Photoshop files, etc), when I do anything related to the drive, its been making wierd sounds. First, it sounded like a bee was buzzing high-pitched in my PC, now its making a loud vibrating noise (reminds me of coffee brewing when I have my headphones on lol). I checked the S.M.A.R.T. data , and there are a few issues:
http://www.freewebs.com/omnishinzui/Raw.JPG

Today, the only things that said to watch were "Reallocated Sector Count" and "Unknown attribute 187". Tonight its showing a new problem, "Raw Read Error Rate".

I got this drive back on March 18th 2006 btw (along with a WD Raptor for my main drive, 97% Health), and I have a Seagate Barracuda 160GB ATA/100 Drive I got December 2004 (which got 92%). Should I keep backups of my files for a while, and keep an eye on my drive? I hope this trend doesnt continue, or I might have to get a replacement via warrenty from Seagate...

edit: picture now hosted somewhere else with no resizing
 
Backup data and RMA. Don't want to risk losing the data, and if the drive goes for good you're SOL.

-z
 
I hope Seagate has good RMA. I have proof of receipt and stuff (got from ZipZoomFly), and there is 5yr warrenty. I guess I gotta backup some stuff on my External Hard Drive, and put some files on DVD then... Good thing I havnt formatted my 160GB on my old PC yet (before I built my new rig) with 75% of my files (20% in External Hard Drive)...

Curious tho, im going to backup anyways, but how bad in shape is it? Like will it crash any second now? or crash any day now? or will crash eventually, but very soon and when is anyone's guess? Its a good thing my OS isnt on the drive, with all the access and writing of data.
 
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