[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

[RobertWichert]

I use a mechanic's stethoscope.  It works great.



Robert P. Wichert P.Eng +1 916 966 9060 FAX +1 916 966 9068




On 1/17/2010 2:23 AM, Anne Wainwright wrote:
> Hi, Carla,
>
> Let's get our hands dirty!
>
> take the cover off the machine and when it makes a rattle you will
> quickly know which drive it is. Either your aural directional location
> utility or the finger test will be your friends.
>
> bestest
> Anne
>
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:17:46 -0800
> Carla Schroder<cschroder at internet.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Friday 15 January 2010 04:31:55 pm Christine Thompson wrote:
>>      
>>> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 07:43 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
>>>        
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> That's a good thought. Even so, it shouldn't be that noisy. If it
>>>> is the old
>>>> IDE drive I'm going to decommission it. Maybe at the shooting
>>>> range :)
>>>>          
>>> Why not just download a Hirens 10.0 LiveCD iso, and this is a Live
>>> linux boot CD.  In this CD had a HD health tool allow you to find
>>> out which one is bad or about to die.  This way you will not do any
>>> guessing.
>>>        
>> That's not going to tell me which one is making weird noises. I think
>> I mentioned I already ran smartctl.  Never heard of Hirens, I might
>> check it out. I like SystemRescueCD/USB.
>>
>> Carla
>>
>>      
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