[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

[Christine Thompson]

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.

-- 
Christine Thompson <kristinethster at gmail.com>