[Techtalk] periodic loud hard drive noise

[Anne Wainwright]

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
>