Loud cracking sound coming from a new seagate 'certified repaired hdd'

[hires]

Hi members,

please help.. I just got a 160gb seagate sata with a Certified Repaired HDD on it.
At first I was suspicious what this label means.. Is it secondhand HDD?
So I asked the seller what is it? He told me don't know what it means and giving assure it has a one-year guarantee trade without physical damage.

As i don't really know much about the hardware terms, I took it (fool me)

First three weeks it's all good.. works fine.. then come to this last two days. it suddenly makes this loud cracking noise. unlike usual HD noise this one almost sounded like a metal plate collide with each other.. very scary

I am concerned.. though no reduced performance ever occurred but I fear it's a signal for something really bad in near future (at least in one-year span)
While it's still new and no much data on it.. I plan to return it.

Please help... it's that normal on a "certified repaired hdd"?
Also I've checked the S/N to seagate that this HD is really refurbished stuff and will go expired by seagate worldwide warranty in 27 July 2008.

Damn I felt being ripped off...

 

[Twsmit]

Certified repaired means it was returned because the drive was originally faulty. The drive might be a lemon, or could just be bad luck and its failing again. Setup an RMA with seagate and send it back, you should get another certified repaired drive in about 2 weeks.

 

[hires]

yep... rip off. a refurbished one.. got it trade.. lame lame seagate for manipulate its customers

 

[Rubycon]

Refurbs not cracked up to what you need them to be. 😉

I've had more recerts (chiefly SCSI) fail that I will never get them again.