[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Fri Jan 15 15:43:10 UTC 2010


On Friday 15 January 2010 04:07:36 am Ande's Help .Net Info 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 :)

Carla

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