Random HD noises

[NutBucket]

As you may recall my D740 80gig drive died a while back so I bought WD800JB to replace it. I've had it now for two weeks. After a week I noticed one day that drive just made a sound like the head parked and un-parked. It only does it maybe once if the computer has been on for a while and not very often at all, maybe 3 times in the last week. Computer is on for an average of 5 hours a day. Should I be worried?

My rig

 

[Howard]

Happened to me quite frequently last month. Settled down recently.

 

[AntaresVI]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Should I be worried?

Yes. RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Yes, throw yourself out a window.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
As you may recall my D740 80gig drive died a while back so I bought WD800JB to replace it. I've had it now for two weeks. After a week I noticed one day that drive just made a sound like the head parked and un-parked. It only does it maybe once if the computer has been on for a while and not very often at all, maybe 3 times in the last week. Computer is on for an average of 5 hours a day. Should I be worried?

My rig

OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!

 

[iwearnosox]

It might be breeding with one of your other drives.

 

[m2kewl]

send it to me

 

[Geekbabe]

What's the Power supply situation ,both in the rig and coming from the wall, any surge supressors?

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: NutBucket
As you may recall my D740 80gig drive died a while back so I bought WD800JB to replace it. I've had it now for two weeks. After a week I noticed one day that drive just made a sound like the head parked and un-parked. It only does it maybe once if the computer has been on for a while and not very often at all, maybe 3 times in the last week. Computer is on for an average of 5 hours a day. Should I be worried?

My rig

OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!

D'oh. Beat me to it.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
As you may recall my D740 80gig drive died a while back so I bought WD800JB to replace it. I've had it now for two weeks. After a week I noticed one day that drive just made a sound like the head parked and un-parked. It only does it maybe once if the computer has been on for a while and not very often at all, maybe 3 times in the last week. Computer is on for an average of 5 hours a day. Should I be worried?

My rig

Prepare for the worse scenario and back up all your important data.

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
What's the Power supply situation ,both in the rig and coming from the wall, any surge supressors?

Power supply in the rig is an Enermax 430W unit and it is plugged into an APC Back-UPS LS 500.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
As you may recall my D740 80gig drive died a while back so I bought WD800JB to replace it. I've had it now for two weeks. After a week I noticed one day that drive just made a sound like the head parked and un-parked. It only does it maybe once if the computer has been on for a while and not very often at all, maybe 3 times in the last week. Computer is on for an average of 5 hours a day. Should I be worried?

My rig

huh, mine does that too and it's also a 80 gig WD drive. It sounds like it powered down and powered back up.

I assumed worst case scenario and duplicated all my data. Though the drive seems to work fine in the USB 2 enclosure it's in now.

I did a search a while back on WD's support website and it suggested that a bad ATA cable maybe to blame.