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Diagnose this noise my hard drive is making
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:38 pm
it sounds like little intermittent blips of FM radio static. Not exactly, but that's the best way I can think of to describe it. Should I be preparing for a total failure?
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Posted on 10/26/14 at 5:41 pm to Jim Rockford
Download CrystalDiskInfo and see what it says.
(new noises in hard drives are not usually a good thing)
(new noises in hard drives are not usually a good thing)
Posted on 10/26/14 at 6:54 pm to Jim Rockford
My 2009 imac does this also. I would like to know what it is.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:06 pm to Jim Rockford
How often do they occur, and how long do they last?
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:10 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
It first happened a couple of months ago, went on for a week or so, then stopped. Now it's doing it again. Most of the time, a second or less, occasionally 2-3 seconds.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:49 pm to Jim Rockford
Sounds like your hard drive is a ticking time bomb.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:57 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:58 pm to Jim Rockford
My bet is on thermal recalibration, which is normal and fits the pattern you described, especially if the drive is being regularly accessed which would momentarily interrupt a potentially lengthy recal. Google the make and model number to see if anyone else has commented on the behavior.
It could also be a background process at work, and if so, you should see the drive activity LED flicker, and if you're lucky, you might be able to catch it in the act with a program like Process Monitor, though it might stop as soon as you access the drive. There will be no LED flicker for internal drive operations like thermal recal.
If you're not showing any SMART errors in CrystalDiskInfo or disk or NTFS errors in Event Viewer, and you're not noticing any freezes or slowdowns, I'm not sure I'd worry about it.
It could also be a background process at work, and if so, you should see the drive activity LED flicker, and if you're lucky, you might be able to catch it in the act with a program like Process Monitor, though it might stop as soon as you access the drive. There will be no LED flicker for internal drive operations like thermal recal.
If you're not showing any SMART errors in CrystalDiskInfo or disk or NTFS errors in Event Viewer, and you're not noticing any freezes or slowdowns, I'm not sure I'd worry about it.
Posted on 10/26/14 at 7:59 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
Posted on 10/27/14 at 9:57 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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thermal recalibration
Now that's a term I haven't heard in many years.
How old is this drive?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 11:21 am to ILikeLSUToo
quote:
Now that's a term I haven't heard in many years.
How old is this drive?
Doesn't have to be old. I have a couple of 2 TB Hitachis from 2011 I use for backups in a dock that periodically perform lengthy cycles similar to what the OP has described. When I googled it years ago, people called it "thermal calibration" in several threads I found. My 7200 RPM WD 250 GB drives from 2007 also do this. The Greens do not, but they are 5400 RPM, and I have no idea about later, faster WD models.
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