Hard drive noises

macr · Post by **macr** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:10 am

I have an IBM 80GB hard drive and every so often it would make two loud clanking sounds and then quit. I couldn't take it anymore so I just bought a Maxtor 160GB HD Ultra ATA 133. Now all the sudden this one's making noises that sound like static everytime I'm accessing data on the drive.

The 80GB HD is less than a year old and the Maxtor one is less than a week old. The funny thing is, I moved the 80GB HD to another computer to transfer the data to the new drive and it doesn't make the clanking sounds anymore. A buddy of mine told me it might be a MOBO or Power Supply problem. Anyone have suggestions as to what it might be?

Thanks,
Terry

SLK · Post by **SLK** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:56 am

Enable SMART in Bios. That should give you warning if your drive is about to die.

SLK

aagiants · Post by **aagiants** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:26 am

clanking is not good... u better try another PSU or sumthin, u dont want that to die on you

Mopwr2u1 · Post by **Mopwr2u1** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:14 am

I had the hitachi 120 gig hd (they bought out IBM's hd technology)anyway mine did that to then all of a sudden it croaked when I returned it for a replacement I was told the heads were crashing that is what that noise is

ppanther68 · Post by **ppanther68** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:17 pm

May want to try another PSU, may have a bad ground internally, being that you get noise from your HDD, I had read somewhere that IBM HDD,s were not very good, I have 2 maxtors HDD,s, they have always worked well, Later

hardnut · Post by **hardnut** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:08 am

I'm sure there was an issue with a certain build (or builds) of the Promise ATA controller, if this is the controller you are using you could try an older revision of the driver (25 methinks).

The problem was always more apparent when shutting down the computer, with a whiney noise then a click, then a nother whiney noise... but that was just me and my old ASUS A7V & A7V133 boards.