Hard drive noise

[Ilikepiedoyou]

I just noticed that the hard drive in my computer is making some rather peculiar noises. Although hard to describe I will do my best - I can feel a slight intermintant hum coming from it, happening once a second, if I touch it during operation I can feel a slight vibration that conicides with the hum 1/2 second hum noise. Any ideas what it could be?

 

[regnez]

No idea what it could be, but any unusual noises coming from your hard drive is probably a bad thing. If I were you, I would back up that hdd quick.

 

[mrred]

I noticed something like this when I had HD's of different rpm loaded in the same mount. I think it has to do with the drives vibrating at different frequencies and the vibrations cross at certain times. Maybe this makes no sense.

do you have drives at different rpm?

 

[AstroGuardian]

Originally posted by: mrred
I noticed something like this when I had HD's of different rpm loaded in the same mount. I think it has to do with the drives vibrating at different frequencies and the vibrations cross at certain times. Maybe this makes no sense.

do you have drives at different rpm?

You are absolutely right. But id doesn't have to mean drives with diggerent RPMs. It is a vibration of the hdd combine with the vibration of the CPU or other coolers and the tower itself. I have this same problem. After i shake the hard disks and secure them more in place with more powerful screws, the problem is gone but reapears every month.
I have a Hitaci DeskStar 250Gb

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I believe that is akin to resonance. I would highly suggest getting some noise dampening stuff to limit the vibration. Not for the noise, but I personally would hate to have my equipment vibrating that much. Not to mention, stuff can be had for very cheap.

Hard drive screws

Case Fan mounts (open type)

While researching on SPCR, I also found some soft rubber case feet that are supposed to help with the actual case vibration, but I can't find them anywhere right now...

Good luck, and maybe that stuff will help. Definitely won't hurt though

 

[UMfanatic]

is it a humm or a churp,

 

[Boyo]

Have you tried running SMART to see if the drive is okay? SpeedFan has this ability if you don't have any SMART diganostic software.