[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

[Carla Schroder]

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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