Help with annoying disk scratching sound even there's no activity

[QTPie]

My SCSI C drive is making some sounds like it read/write something even when there's no activity at all. The PC is running on WinXP Pro, 758MB RAM (it's using only 350MB now), I put 768MB for paging file in another IDE HDD. That's annoying when that sound's there constantly...

Please help, Thank you very much.

 

[QTPie]

oops, reply to a wrong thread, sorry, 🙂

 

[mechBgon]

My Quantum Atlas 10k SCSI drive self-calibrates when its temperature has changed enough, with a loud BZZZTTT!!! - BZZZZZTTT!!! (well, as if that drive ever did anything that was NOT loud

). My Cheetah X15-36LP sometimes does stuff by itself too, probably self-checks of some kind. I wouldn't worry about it (from a hardware standpoint, I mean... you could still have viruses/trojans or whatnot).

 

[QTPie]

The sound is just annoying ... I wish if it could stop completely when there's no activity.

 

[Jeff7181]

Maybe you should switch to a Seagate Barracuda 9... they're near silent.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Maybe you should switch to a Seagate Barracuda 9... they're near silent.

Aye laddie but they aren't quite up to SCSI speeds are they now?

 

[mechBgon]

If I remember correctly, you can have an LVD SCSI bus up to 12 meters long. External enclosure... 10-meter SCSI cable... let your drive play all the Solitaire it wants, down in the basement 🙂 Ok ok, I know that would be expensive.