I've been having an intermittent problem with two of my Seagate 7200.7 SATA hard drives.
Occasionally, they will make a weird "whine-click" sort of noise. It sounds similar to the infamous "click of death" but it isn't. Whenever a drive makes the noise, my computer stops responding until the noise goes away. Sometimes, the drive will only make the noise once (so, a duration of ~1 second), othertimes, it will continue to make the noise for a while, sometimes forcing me to do a hard reset (which is bad, I know.)
The odd thing about this (and what makes me sure it's not the click of death), is that it's been happening off and on for about 9 months, and I've never once had any corrupted data on those drives.
My suspcion is that it's related actually to a bad connection at the SATA port on the hard drive (and only on Seagate 7200.7s). I say this for several reasons.
1) the problem tends to occur after i've moved my computer or messed around on the inside of it. If i wiggle the connectors on the drives, making sure they're secure, the problem will sometimes go away. (That's how i'm able to get rid of it for weeks or months at a time)
2) on occasion, if the problem happens while i'm away from my computer, I'll come back to the unplug/eject hardware dialog box saying that I have removed one of the Seagates without first stopping the drive.
The weird thing is that I also have two other SATA drives, a Raptor and a Maxtor 120GB, and have never had a problem like this with either of them.
Has anyone else had problems like this? or can you think of a possible solution? I'd really like to get this dealt with because I'm worried that this will eventually kill my drives, and I've got a lot of data on there that I don't want to lose.j
System Details:
Athlon64 3000 (Skt 754)
2x512MB
Antec SurePower 450
Asus K8NE-Deluxe motherboard
1x WD Raptor 74GB on NVidia SATA 0
1x Maxtor 120GB on NVidia SATA 1
1x Seagate 7200.7 200GB on Sil3114 SATA 0
1x Seagate 7200.7 200GB on Sil3114 SATA 1
I've only had problems with the two Seagate drives. I've tried swapping out for different cables, I have not tried connecting the Seagate drives to different SATA ports, although I don't think the problem is related to the motherboard. I do have the latest drivers for my Sil3114 SATA RAID chip, I don't think that's the issue, although it might be.
Also, all four of my hard drives are mounted in the bottom drive cage of a LianLi PC-61, so they're mounted vertically. I think I tired mounting the two Seagate horizontally, because i thought maybe the SATA connectors were getting pulled out of their sockets.
I tried applying a lot of electrical tape to hold the connectors in, that helped until the next time i moved my case.
Sorry for the long post, but please help if you can. I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem.
Occasionally, they will make a weird "whine-click" sort of noise. It sounds similar to the infamous "click of death" but it isn't. Whenever a drive makes the noise, my computer stops responding until the noise goes away. Sometimes, the drive will only make the noise once (so, a duration of ~1 second), othertimes, it will continue to make the noise for a while, sometimes forcing me to do a hard reset (which is bad, I know.)
The odd thing about this (and what makes me sure it's not the click of death), is that it's been happening off and on for about 9 months, and I've never once had any corrupted data on those drives.
My suspcion is that it's related actually to a bad connection at the SATA port on the hard drive (and only on Seagate 7200.7s). I say this for several reasons.
1) the problem tends to occur after i've moved my computer or messed around on the inside of it. If i wiggle the connectors on the drives, making sure they're secure, the problem will sometimes go away. (That's how i'm able to get rid of it for weeks or months at a time)
2) on occasion, if the problem happens while i'm away from my computer, I'll come back to the unplug/eject hardware dialog box saying that I have removed one of the Seagates without first stopping the drive.
The weird thing is that I also have two other SATA drives, a Raptor and a Maxtor 120GB, and have never had a problem like this with either of them.
Has anyone else had problems like this? or can you think of a possible solution? I'd really like to get this dealt with because I'm worried that this will eventually kill my drives, and I've got a lot of data on there that I don't want to lose.j
System Details:
Athlon64 3000 (Skt 754)
2x512MB
Antec SurePower 450
Asus K8NE-Deluxe motherboard
1x WD Raptor 74GB on NVidia SATA 0
1x Maxtor 120GB on NVidia SATA 1
1x Seagate 7200.7 200GB on Sil3114 SATA 0
1x Seagate 7200.7 200GB on Sil3114 SATA 1
I've only had problems with the two Seagate drives. I've tried swapping out for different cables, I have not tried connecting the Seagate drives to different SATA ports, although I don't think the problem is related to the motherboard. I do have the latest drivers for my Sil3114 SATA RAID chip, I don't think that's the issue, although it might be.
Also, all four of my hard drives are mounted in the bottom drive cage of a LianLi PC-61, so they're mounted vertically. I think I tired mounting the two Seagate horizontally, because i thought maybe the SATA connectors were getting pulled out of their sockets.
I tried applying a lot of electrical tape to hold the connectors in, that helped until the next time i moved my case.
Sorry for the long post, but please help if you can. I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem.
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