Re: Is my HDD amking to much noise?


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Question: Is the HDD on the video below making to much noise?

- Yes, it is making too much noise
- No, this amounf of noise is usual for any laptop
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John Barnett MVP;977013 Wrote:
To be honest what you consider 'loud' the manufacturer might consider as
normal for that drive. I well remember being sent a hard drive by
Seagate to
review. The drive seemed quite quiet in operation for the first few
days but
got progressively louder as the week progressed. I called Seagate and
expressed my concerns and was told 'don't worry about the noise, that
is
normal.' Well it must have been normal because the drive lasted 5 years
without any problem and it was only dispensed with because I left
instructions for the PC to be sent to the recycling centre (I was
buying a
new one) and forgot to take the damn drive out:-(

The best thing to do is visit the manufacturer's website and download
their
drive diagnostic application. Run it on the drive and see if it shows
any
problems. It is rather disconcerting the loudness of the click, click
as the
drive head accesses data, but without a diagnostic check it is
difficult to
say whether the drive is faulty or not.

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"capi" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f25c1bac34cb4d2313cf8c507a934a7e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >

Hi guys;

I got a DELL XPS M1530, which came with a WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT1
298.0GB Hard Drive Disk when I bought it. My computer got some
problems,
so DELL changed the HDD(which had a block failing) for me, and put in
a
FUJITSU MHZ2320BH G2 298.09GB instead. My computer is owkring faster
than before and the problems that I had have all gone(like an
eventviewer problem I had for a time ago), but my HDD now seems to
make
very much "fan noise", and somtimes the clik....clickclickclick...
thing
and very loud, or at least I think that. Am I just a bit to fuzy with
the sound or am I right???

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Thanks for your opinions

-capi


--
capi > >

My hard drive seems fine. I did DELL diagnostics on it, and no error
appeared. Anyways DELL(My provider) is getting me a new one, so I hope
that the next HDD wont make to much noise then.


--
capi
.

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