i think my hard-drive is talking to me

[T2urtle]

I got a 3-4 year old dell E510. It was in a large loud living most of its live. I upgraded to a 500gb maxtor 7200rpm hard-drive, a 8600 GT card and ram. Clean out all the dust.

I moved it into my room and now it names a noise. my educated guess is the hard-drive. The noise is random, when i boot something heavy, like couterstrike or photoshop it is more apparent. At times when i'm sleeping the computer makes the noise at idle.

I would like to say its the hard-drive. I dont know to blame it on maxtor making bad/noisy drives or the 7200rpm. I've always had 5400 rpm drives and never had this problem.

Anyone recommend me something QUIET that offers the same performance? I dont have a need for 500gb really. i just partitioned it 100gb- main drive. 195gb and 195gb. both other partitions are for movies and files. its been 2+ years with this hard-drive and i've only filled up 35gb, minus the movies and music which i can store on my external but i made copies on the drive.

 

[Eureka]

What kind of noise? The seek head? Or clicking? Clicking is a sign of imminent doom.

You could always get a SSD, those are completely noiseless. Caviars are also supposedly pretty quiet.

 

[T2urtle]

i cant exactly explain the noise, the old old computers always did it. I guess it would be a form of clicking, ticking type. It doesn't sound like its going to die. Just noisy.

 

[Eureka]

That's the seek head running I believe. I'm shocked that a modern hard drive makes those noise... they've been relatively noiseless for a while (both of my hard drives are about 3 years old). You might just need a more modern hard drive.

 

[Denithor]

Western Digital Caviar (Black or Blue for performance, Green for low power mode)

Intel X25-M
OCZ Vertex

Second options are totally silent - no moving parts to make noise.

 

[Eureka]

Actually, I would think any modern hard drive would be better, not necessarily a WD.

Oh, and while we're on this topic..

Originally posted by: T2urtle
i think my hard-drive is talking to me

What's it saying?

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: Eureka
Actually, I would think any modern hard drive would be better, not necessarily a WD.

Oh, and while we're on this topic..

Originally posted by: T2urtle
i think my hard-drive is talking to me

What's it saying?

"Kill your parents"

 

[T2urtle]

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: Eureka
Actually, I would think any modern hard drive would be better, not necessarily a WD.

Oh, and while we're on this topic..

Originally posted by: T2urtle
i think my hard-drive is talking to me

What's it saying?

"Kill your parents"

How did you know?


I would like to say its a modern hard-drive. 2 years old. Maxtor 500gb, i picked it up when the 500gb hit the $100 mark.

So this seek thing, it isn't a sign of possible failure is it? Just noise? I much rather keep this as a spare drive, since selling it will get me nothing.

 

[T2urtle]

Ok so which one is more quieter....


Text Western Digital Caviar Green WD7500AADS 750GB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive - OEM for $60

Text Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM for $50

 

[masterbm]

Western Digital Caviar Green WD7500A ADS 750GB 32MB I ran that one as one of the drives in my file server for about 1 year now. Never hear anything mor then fan noise from machine. THe other note I have many hd that use one of them that is in use as boot drive is old 80gb ide western digtal drive been with me since 02. Never really heard much noise from that drive. Same goes . for my seagate sata 1 120gb that I have head since 06. For the most part I ran western ditgal and seagate hd and never really hear any noise from any my drives. I have had problems with maxtor drives so I do not use them anymore. Basically ever one I have ran has died.