ok, heres my setup.
I've got 4 HDDs all Maxtor
a 120 and 250GB on same channel on Primary MoBo IDE connector
and 2 160GB drives on seperate channels on a add on PCI IDE Card (not Raid)
bout a week ago I was playing HL2 and, out of nowhere the hard drive (one of them) made this sound
not its normal hum of wonderful operation but (knowing how hard drives are put together) i could only describe as the head hitting the center part of the spinning drive. Scared the crap out of me the first time it happend becasue it crashed the game, and i was forced to reboot. Before the game locking up, I heard heavy diskswapping going on, then the sound, then game goes kaputt.
I left the computer off for a few minutes thinking that the hard drives had over heated. I felt them and the middle one in my case (250 Drive, also the newest) was almost to hot to touch, i know this is really bad for the drive, and none were of the same temp but the hard drives are now the hottest thing in my computer. I'm planning on 1) getting a new hard drive to replace one thats dieing (or dead)
2) moving 1 or 2 hard drives to external enclosures to keep them operating at a lower temp becasue they are primarily storage and i don't need high performance/speed with those drives
I'm asking for help, in how to determine what drive is failing (IE a program or test thingy?) prefferably before the drive dies and the data on it is unrecoverable, and since the sound only happens intermitantly, i'm unable to detect what drive is making the noise and (i'm guessing ) is about to die.
any help is wonderful
in short:
Drive made a weird noise, sounded like drive head hitting inside of platter
noise happens at random, can't reproduce at will
hard to determine what drive is making noise
need help
thanks for looking
I've got 4 HDDs all Maxtor
a 120 and 250GB on same channel on Primary MoBo IDE connector
and 2 160GB drives on seperate channels on a add on PCI IDE Card (not Raid)
bout a week ago I was playing HL2 and, out of nowhere the hard drive (one of them) made this sound
not its normal hum of wonderful operation but (knowing how hard drives are put together) i could only describe as the head hitting the center part of the spinning drive. Scared the crap out of me the first time it happend becasue it crashed the game, and i was forced to reboot. Before the game locking up, I heard heavy diskswapping going on, then the sound, then game goes kaputt.
I left the computer off for a few minutes thinking that the hard drives had over heated. I felt them and the middle one in my case (250 Drive, also the newest) was almost to hot to touch, i know this is really bad for the drive, and none were of the same temp but the hard drives are now the hottest thing in my computer. I'm planning on 1) getting a new hard drive to replace one thats dieing (or dead)
2) moving 1 or 2 hard drives to external enclosures to keep them operating at a lower temp becasue they are primarily storage and i don't need high performance/speed with those drives
I'm asking for help, in how to determine what drive is failing (IE a program or test thingy?) prefferably before the drive dies and the data on it is unrecoverable, and since the sound only happens intermitantly, i'm unable to detect what drive is making the noise and (i'm guessing ) is about to die.
any help is wonderful
in short:
Drive made a weird noise, sounded like drive head hitting inside of platter
noise happens at random, can't reproduce at will
hard to determine what drive is making noise
need help
thanks for looking
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