Hitachi Global posted a quick Q&A from their support pages that has six of the worst sounds to hear coming from your hard drive. Give em a listen so you know when to make that whole system backup.
These can be valuable if you haven’t heard them before. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard them and just barely gotten a backup made before the drive kicked the bucket.
[tags]Hard drive, sound, bad, failing[/tags]
January 23rd, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Hrmm.. or they could title it “Sounds you often hear when passing a road crew” I’d say most of them also sound like powertools. I wish I’d recorded the sound my laptop drive was making (which happened to be a hitachi actually). It sounded like someone smacking a hollow metal block with a wrench. Good stuff… my data certainly enjoyed it.