IBM 75GXP goes BUMP in the night.

[Phuz]

Hey.

Has anyone had their 75GXP drive make a few clunking noises and then stop?
No necessarily under any paticular stress... ?

I heard it might be common.. Do I need a new Drive?

 

[Phuz]

BTW, this expensive drive is only 3-4 weeks old, but it'd kind of hard for me to return it, and I can't lose data.. no burner.. sigh..


:frown:

 

[Vegito]

No buy my 2 month rarely used maxtor diamond max plus 40gig was gone.. cost almost 2000 for recovery but it was a pain. New drives are like that.. just go clunk..

 

[Phuz]

Seriously?
Your telling me this crazy sound is normal?
It happens only on OCCASION...
Still, I wan't to be very sure.

 

[Vegito]

I'm saying these people should pay you to use their drive. Not that they cover any recovery. Back up soon!!!!! It's ready to go..

 

[ironBEAR]

*DOH* i was going to refer you to this thread, but looks like your the orginator of that one too. There was some good feedback in that one... might wanna check up on it.

My 30GB IBM 75GXP better come in this week!

ironBEAR

 

[Eug]

Are you overclocking?

 

[MasterMind]

Update: The problem I was having (posted in the other thread) was from a loose power connector.

I did try Drive Fitness Test but couldn't get it to run. IBM's site says to use a older version to test drives on a RAID controller but they dont have the old version available for download. IDIOTS!! But even after putting them on a IDE channel, I still couldn't get it to work.

If you havent already, try DFT and see if it says you have a problem.

 

[LiekOMG]

My old Quantum 4.3 GB drive (which i still use, btw) make a small "click-shooosh" sound just before it spins down. This happens every time i turn the computer off, or when the drive isn't used for a long time (about 1 hour on my computer), and then it powers down.

So long as it doesn't make that sound while its working...

 

[Phuz]

Thansk guys, I had lost the thread.. Thanks.

 

[Phuz]

:|

So, I talked to the place I purchased it..
They said it'd have to recreate the noise for them to trade it in for a new one.
I talked to IBM, and they said they have to return it, so I told them that and it looks like they might co-operate.
I'm going to exchange it just to be careful.
Not a cheap drive :disgust:

 

[shabby]

Speaking of clunking, my 3.1 gig western digital drive bit the dust today.
Yesterday it was all fine and dandy, and all of a sudden it made this clunk clunk clunk noise.
Today it did the same thing, so i figured i better turn my comp off so it doesnt die.
Couple hours ago i tried to boot the comp, all i heard was the dreaded clunk noise over and over again. The comp didnt even get past the scsi start up. First i thought it was my scsi card, but later i found out it was the drive.

Does western digital need a receipt to rma my drive? Cuz my 3 year warranty is up.
"Yeah thats it, i bought it 2 years ago sir.... but my dog ate the receipt"

 

[Phuz]

This buisiness hasn't replied about anoterh e-mail!
I asked if I could get my HD mirrored there by them, and they haven't replied.
They'll probably charge a high price..
:Q

 

[Phuz]

BAH,

They'll replace it (after talking to them a few times)
but they are charging me $25 to mirror the new drive! Argh!

 

[ColdTech]

My Deskstar doesnt make a sound(well accept the HD fan)

 

[masterskartrg]

i was also going to create a thread about this my wd 15gb 7200/66 2months old is also makeing the same noise once in awhlie you know that sound that starts the harddrive in the begining it sounds almost like that my ibm dosnt do it thou