[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

[Ande's Help .Net Info]

Hi Carla,

It sounds as if the hard drive could be getting indexed.  Some hard drives
are louder than others when being searched by the system for file indexing.

Do you have a firewall installed?  

A couple of times, when my hard drives were going nuts and were loud;

1.  Installing automatic updates.  Which I have since turned off.
2.  Someone had hacked past my firewall.  I had to manually disconnect my
LAN cable then clean-up my system and fix the firewall.

Ande

-----Original Message-----
From: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org [mailto:techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org]
On Behalf Of Carla Schroder
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:21 PM
To: 'Techtalk'
Subject: [Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

hey all,

anyone have any clues what would cause a hard drive to suddenly go nuts?
This 
happens 4-5 times per day that I know of, sometimes during idle times, 
sometimes not. For about half a minute it works at top speed, making the 
classic hard drive working-hard-grinding noise. Then it stops. top doesn't 
show any crazy processes. There are two drives, so I don't even know which 
one it is.

thanks!

Carla
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