• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Seagate 200G drive ugly clicking when idle!

T

trodas

Banned
Drive(s) in question - Seagate PATA 200G ST3200822A ones.
Number of them - There.
Description of problem - in folding machines, they are mostly idle. Yet each about 45sec or something a self check (or something like this INTO the drive, no IDE activity shown) is started. This generate click noise and such sounds like HDD activity and it is extremely annoying. I did not want to hear these clicks. Otherwise I'm happy with the drives, but I just want this to STOP. Either stop, or return the drive any get another brand that won't click when idle. VERY annoying. Is there a way to make this STOP forever, or one just should not buy any Seagate drivers?
Anyone?
Affected machines - Any. It simply did not matter on what machine they run, it is always the same. Noise, clicks, noise, clicks...

Thanks for letting me know. I just got there these ST3200822A drives, so I either found a solution or return them - Maxtor's did not do such noise, maybe I should just not went to Seagate... Or is there a new firmware or utility available to STOP THIS...?
 
Is it a "Click--click--whrrrr" sound?

Or a "Click---click---spin---click---spin---click" sound?

The first one sounds like some type of application is trying to access the drive consistently, while the 2nd one means your hard drive is about to die. Either way, you can't go wrong with RMA.
 
Sounds like Seagate STIR (Seek To Increase Reliability), don't think you can disable it.

EDIT If your drives aren't being used much, you could set your power profile to turn the drives off after a short time.
 
Originally posted by: thescreensavers
a spin sounds like a whrrr
Click to expand...

A whrrr sounds like something is charging up. A spin sounds like something grinding against something to slow down.

To be more specific, a whrrr sound is like air blowing out of a fan, while a spin sound is more like a "Speeeeeek" sound.

Don't ask me how I know this, I'm just sick and tired of hard drives dying on me. It's the price I pay for uploading/downloading stuff all day long.
 
Hey guys, easy on the sounds, okay?

Anyway, the good news that both 3 of these are fine. But it is also the bad news, so no RMA to get rid of them.
I over heard that these counds are in fact called self check and the drive does it when iddle to "prevent diagnostic to prevent future failures". IMHO this is BS to say it politely. From my experience - what moves - fail. Sooner or later. So, moving more means increased chance of failure. For the very same reasons the drivers used as winblows swap ones fail much more often that these who aren't used that way.
In my folding machine I got a 1G of ram and therefore (also extremly optimized XP, cut down to 575MB of size and less that 50MB o ram usage) I disabled the swap file on all my folding machines. 9 of them, so to say. This probably only increased my problems, however there is nothing to swap, acctually, so, enabling swapping will not work as solution for sure. Other users with the very same problem already use swap files and still have problems...
I contacted Seagate, asking them about new / different firmware, so we see what they come up with. I hoped that there could be a utility like the one for setting up the AAM that could disable this "feature", but ... who knows.
Other than that - if we managed to get more users unhappy with the situation, we might be able to push them up for a firmware update that include the possibility to DISABLE THIS.
Science Fiction?
I would say it is just about the number of people who contact them.

PS. I already get suggested to use SysTool http://www.techpowerup.com/systool/ to disable the AAM :lol: Of course, the drives have NO AAM to set or disable 😛
Well, at least ppl's is trying to help.

http://www.slibe.com/fullimage/fd4d44dd-systool_fail_to_.gif

SilentRunning - good point, however I can't disable em, because these machines are used as data storage as well. So, the constant spin up and down (remember, folding save data on HDD as well, when you run Filemon you will be surprised HOW MUCH disk work is does, I was SHOCKED) will only kill the drive for sure.
I don't want to do that, but I want to disable this thing 🙁
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top