Raptor problems

[boglwe]

I have the 150 Raptor and its my boot drive. Whenever I am idle and probably in load as well, the raptor arm goes back to the beginning of the plater every single second. I timed it with my stop watch and its directly every second. I updated vista 64 today and also nividia for the 8800 gtx. I dont remember it doing this, at this time, there are no programs running and just the normal processes. Any help or advice? I am going to leave it running and go to best buy to look at a lappy case, be back in a about an hour and see what its doing then, maybe its working something out, but this dont seem realistic to me. It was not doing this before.

 

[LightningRider]

That's normal. Background processes access the hard drive too every once in a while. And there are many of them. Don't worry about it. If you're not suffering any performance loss then everything is fine. The head moving around is just accessing files from different parts of the disk. Every hard drive does this.

 

[boglwe]

yea, I hear you , but this is just to weird. I am going to go back to a restore point and see what happens. Thanks for the reply though

 

[boglwe]

The restore point fixed the problem. It was surely the update for vista 64

 

[LightningRider]

Hm, strange then. Never heard of that before. Do you have any idea which update might have caused it?

 

[Synomenon]

I've been using my 150GB Raptor w/ Vista Ultimate x64 for a couple of months now. The constant hard drive thrashing is normal in Vista.

 

[itraki]

I had a similar problem, though not every second. My Raptor75's arm hit the bumper at it's starting point all too often. It's a sound that doesn't feel good, and i was very sure this was not a thing of normal background operations of Vista Business.

My solution was to go back to XP and THAT made me really happy, because the Raptor thing was just one of many troubles with Vista (network troubles, software compatibility, annoying security warnings).
XP on a new machine with fast harddisks results in a blazingly fast system, and with all the latest drivers there's no complaint left.

 

[itraki]

Forgot to mention:
The Raptor problem is over, as you might guess. The Raptor is not a silent disk, so what i hear now are these regular soft tics when the arm skips to the next track. That IS the normal background processing of XP (indexing etc.)

 

[boglwe]

Yea, maybe its just indexing, Its still doing it after the vista64 update, just not as much. Still annoying as hell.

 

[lamere]

Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi
I've been using my 150GB Raptor w/ Vista Ultimate x64 for a couple of months now. The constant hard drive thrashing is normal in Vista.

That kind of sucks. Talk about wearing out your expensive drive.

I can understand some ticking from time to time, but thrashing? Unacceptable.

 

[boglwe]

Yea, I can not figure it out. if this keeps up, I will have to go to XP, or maybe a full reinstall without any of the updates. Just seems kind of awkward. I love this 64 bit OS, but I just dont understand. I am going to start a new thread regarding 64bit and the Raptor or any Hard drive, for that matter. Check in Operating systems if you are interested.

 

[Synomenon]

I've been googling this problem and most sites say that it's caused by Vista's constant indexing.

 

[LightningRider]

I get only ticks on mine at random intervals. I think it's normal.

 

[boglwe]

I turned off indexing and the hard drive is whisper quiet now. Why would I need indexing anyways? I never searched for anything on my old comp..