The sound of a bad Seagate 160gb hard drive

[c0ssu1]

i have that hard drive :D

[frenzyvanrafi]

i have same problem, my seagate barracuda 7200.9 160 gb hard drive was broken. so each that hard drive clicking, my system was freezed out until spinning again. however i have barracuda 7200.10 hard drive for my system so it was not enough storage capacity

[DanielxLira]

my old pc has been doing that sound for years xD

[SIMOFIGHTFUL]

when I first turn on my computer it sounds like a printer

[katiesuckz]

what the hell kind of sound is that lol!

[HoneycombAgent]

Everyone's been blasting Seagate because Seagate = Maxtor and Maxtor = CRAPTOR

[Omegadoomship]

My laptop hard drive did that until it shut off and gave me a blue screen saying "unmountible boot volume".

[gachu26]

hoooo yeaaa bad

[PetreckMusic]

Yeah, I have one of these (160GB) and 500GB Seagate HDD, which started being noisy after 3 months (pretty loud clicks). Nevertheless it has worked fine for over 4 years.

[TAYLOR13961]

I Had two seagate internal hard drives this year.,And they both broke down.

[MrKomras]

i have the same problem

[vajksziget7a]

Seagate's are very good hard drives.The samsung HDD's are shit.I experienced a lot of samsung HDD's crashing... The seagate's are good.

[ThePhoneUpdate]

I have a very old Maxtor drive that still works well, I keep it in my server purely for the AWESOME sound it has when fired up xD

[HaloSpartanG13]

Segate. More like piece of shit.

[mcmamac]

what does backing up data actually mean?

[DvvdJD]

@mcmamac - Copying it to another source so it won't be lost.

[mcmamac]

@DvvdJD so if i copy my word document to another hard drive that means it is backed up?

[DvvdJD]

@mcmamac - Yes, but I suggest putting it on a flash drive or something else solid state.

[Plexike]

seagate...

[AshdaGanjaman]

Correction on my comment here...turns out my chirping HD similar to this sound was caused by a bad PSU, which also began to buzz when running anything graphically intensive, leading me to diagnose the prob. The Seagate live's on.......

[Dorisequador]

Sounds like you got squrels boy lol

[THEtechknight]

seagates are maxtors now. lol.

[SaucyBegger25]

i use multiple programs to clean my hard drives. the key to a long life hard drive is clean, defrag and error check once a week i do it more than that but not error check that should be done once every month or so you spend more time cleaning you PC then going on stuff. registry cleaners are dangerous programs if used to much i use windows 7 manager but only run the 1 click cleaner. i find its the best for deleting junk and bad registry entries

[AshdaGanjaman]

I have this HDD and after 3 years it's just started making this noise during a cold boot, not everytime, but yeah. Funny thing is it passes all Seagate tests, shows no problems in SMART data and has not affected performance at all. Backed up my data as I'm sure it's now simply a matter of time,,,just glad I found this as it's actually the same exact noise that I'm getting, and after reading other's probs with this HDD I think my 3 years life + counting aint that bad! Time to save the pennies....

[SOF006]

sounds like someone has stuck stones in the drive xD

[detectiveinspekta]

Happened to two of my seagates. I previously had a water cooling system, took out all the fans. HDD were not cooled adequately and failed a few months later.

[arcadefirerocks]

I have the PATA verstion of this HDD with the same problem. Only I didn't get to the 'back up your data' part before it bit the dust :(

[thecatyoukai]

THats not a hard drive, its a geiger counter :3

[peniosasdasd]

@thecatyoukai

And it looks as if this was filmed in Chernobyl

[Kelthuzad126]

@peniosasdasd thats what i was gonna say! lol

[kylecvi]

@thecatyoukai LOL! Radioactive harddrive

[deadlastass]

whoa brutal

[PsilocybinDream]

one more thing. the tention screw is on the top of the hard drive fingers not the disks

[PsilocybinDream]

@yappy06 read my response itll tell u how to fix the HD

[PsilocybinDream]

Be careful not to tighten up too much or the little fingers that read the disks will push down on the metal disks too hard and scratch little rings around it while reading.

[PsilocybinDream]

This is actually simple to fix.just over time the tention screw either losten up or tightens up. just open the top of the hard drive and you should see 3 metal disks on the very top in the middle you will see something to tighten or losten. just simply have the hard drive reading something and losten or tighten as necissary till the sound stops.this happened to me cause i dropped my external hard drive and it adjusted the tention.Hope this Helps

[pmdwashere]

grr my 160 WD died while i was playing Garry's Mod the other day. My computer froze, i tried rebooting and nothing happened. the drive didn't even show up in BIOS. it sounds like its not even spinning up. any ideas?

[JappY06]

@derekscomputer: we got the same problem, any links on how to fix it?

[kappy316]

well dam

[RA9ODE]

head damage

[sattanhellsing]

Seagate corporation must be burned to the ground . So like this we may have less people complaining and losing theyr digital life every 6 months .

SEAGATE = HARD RESET Your Digital Life !

[dq476]

i just got my Western Digital Scorpio Blue and replaced it with my seafail momentus 5400.5 320GB sata laptop harddrive.. i hate seafail..

[uphill248]

Hi, I have an SATA hard drive (Maxtor) and a second SATA hard drive, but the connection to the motherboard is different from each other. Do I need a converter? Please Help.

[Theonegamefreak]

Just put it out of it's misery already.

[hazim307]

I have the same HDD. After 3 years it gives up the work, all data are lost.. thanks SEAGATE

[Theonegamefreak]

Back up boiii!

[timeforgear]

I just bought a seagate 500g 7200 16mb

Hope it lasts awhile. Installing it right now

[aidanrayner999]

Ow..... It sounds like it's dying

[harvardjanitor7]

lol my 200 gb seagate also "chirps," but it's lower pitches and not as often

it's been like that for like 2 years before i thought to myself, "wait something might be wrong lol"

the only thing wrong with mine performance wise is that it's kinda slow...

[SMASHITFORTHELULZ]

then its going to fail back up ur data

[TeamXR07]

yup my maxtor sounds like that but not continuous like that though, like once in a while then goes away

few days later click once, and I run chkdsk and everything, clean, but to play it safe I got a samsung hdd I don't want to lose all my music, too much to lose.

[alsey7]

ya thats going bad mine had the same problems

[YouNils]

ouch

poor hdd :(

[Scofield1708]

I got a Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 40GB IDE drive, which clicks when i turn it on. Head damamge maybe? It's still has a warranty so I'm going to get it replaced. They are going to send me a factory repaired unit since 40GB's aren't made anymore I'm pretty sure.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

maybe one head is damaged, i have a western digital with one head dead, makes the same sound

[thecooldude1822]

I dont understand out of all the videos i have watched about failing hard drives it seems like alot of them are new and not even that old so how are they bad already? For example i am still using my hard drive in my first computer i have got back in like 2001 and its 100% good working condition (knock on wood), So people must be doing something wrong with there drives.

[OCDGamer]

@thecooldude1822 Problem is hard drives in 2001 were built better considering the workers probably earned more money for each hard drive they manufactured and did a better job. This global recession we are in has made quality control a very hard thing to come by these days...

[Kilen81]

@OCDGamer I dont think recession has anything to with it... U see Seagate is Maxtor, which has always made crappy hdds, thats why i stopped buying seagates 4 years ago. Only brand that is moderately useable nowadays is Western Digital... And even them arent as good as they used to be.

[draculapw]

Did you put a budgey in that seagate?

[randgruppe0]

What do you think why many powerbooks G4 model 2005 make such loud clicking sounds and afterwards don't boot anymore? Yes, because they all have in-built Seagate hard discs.

[daza1992]

is that a barracuda drive?, i have one of them that has never let me down since 2006 except once which was my fault for corrupting the xp boot volume lol but never had any data loss or noises

[empireravenshadow5]

theres nothing wrong with the drive. you probably screwed something elseup like the circuitboard. older 3.5inch hard disks have dry ball bearings in the actuator motor. when the actuator moves, the balls make the noise. in smaller or newer, theinner drives, theres a lubricant matrix in the motor bearing chamber, reducing any noise.

[pratt123]

Actually it is a head crash where the hard drive platters are colliding with the spinning head of the drive. The longer it makes this noise, the more of the platter will be destroyed.

At 7200 rpm, that head will carve gouges into the platters.

[Trusten1984]

The sound in the hard-drive are not normal, i have seagate from 20 GB. to 500 GB. the don`t make noises like that !

[eladbari]

Fuck! i bought a barracuda 500GB a few months ago, but didnt use it...its lying in my closet.. is this whats gonna happen to it?

can i return it? :\

[cheetawolf]

yeah, its broke XP

[itzjesusbxtch]

i have a seagate 160GB too, but my sound is a low pitch, steady tone, like doooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lol and it wont like boot up and start spinning the disks.

im so sad :(

[RJARRRPCGP]

That's a problem the old school Quantums had and whacking it often helped, to make it spin up. LOL.

[manicjupiterflute]

yah that is the exact noise my hard drive was making when it died on me. Took it to the apple store and they gave me a new one for free.

[guidetocomputing]

my hp computer from 2005 with a 165 gb hard drive does that but it has been doing that since the first time i booted the darn pc

[kn00tcn]

wish you had it open to see if it's hurting the platters themselves or not

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

sounds like the head shredding the platter, lol

[meatwad4900]

*shudders* god that sound brings awful memories of computer distastes I went through..

[tombell12]

Now who keeps birds in their hard drives? LOL

[sawmaster2]

@tombell12 I downloaded and saved a bird to my hard drive. So I am one who keeps birds in my hard drive. LOLXD

[MrTehnoGuy]

@tombell12 i keep angry birds in it...

[Twisted86]

Thanks mate I was curious if my seagate 120gb was dying or not.

Thanks for saving me some problems later.

[alexchrisccc]

my western digital sounds just like that!