Hard Disk Failure Sounds

When a hard disk makes these sounds, you're screwed. Always back up your data at all costs, because you never know when "those sounds" might come out of your hard drive.

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Science & Technology

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• HoneycombAgent
• Hard Disk Failure Sounds
• hitachi
• IBM
• deskstar
• slow spindle motor
• head stuck to platter
• damage
• thrashing
• head crash
• stuck platters
• Hard Disk Drive
• Inside
• Computer
• Laptop
• Personal Computer

[Hikage666]

My laptop's hard disk clicks every once in a while, and the clicks aren't regular. I hear the clicks every few seconds, though the hard disk's light isn't solid. It does blink sometimes but not for long. There is also a whirling sound but I'm not sure if it's the hard disk or the fan. I backed up everything just in case and is already shopping for a new one in case this one fails, but I would like to know if you can tell me if only regular clicks are considered a sign of an upcoming failure?

[HoneycombAgent]

@Hikage666 Did you use a HDD utility on it yet? Most of this clicking may be brought on due to a damaged sector and the hard disk had shifted over to its spare sectors. If you look in the SMART parameters, you should be looking for "Reallocated Sectors Count".

[supermaletperson]

0:50 car

[IIGrayfoxII]

0:25 ping pong.

0:50 sounds like some sort of Nissan March/Micra revving then hitting the limiter.

[mrsdude5120]

0:50 Sounds like a broken car engine

[HoneycombAgent]

@grettagrids

On some drives, that "tick" sound you hear each time you power them on or shut them down are the heads parking on the platters. Most disks don't make that noise anymore. Some of the newer drives use Automatic Acoustic Management to limit drive noise, at the expense of drive performance.

[Hikage666]

@HoneycombAgent I will try this, thank you!

[HoneycombAgent]

@click4dylan2 Your SMART tests didn't check for "motor" problems, didn't it? Now, it ended up costing you out-of-pocket for the data recovery.

Naturally, Seagate/Maxtor have had bad reputation ratings for being unreliable, but try and count the number of PCs with Seagate/Maxtor disks still working inside them.

[click4dylan2]

@HoneycombAgent the drive had progressively gotten slower over the course of a year, to the point where I thought it was windows itself that needed reinstalling. funny as 4 days prior to the complete failure, i did a test with seatools and a smart check and it passed both tests without fail

[grettagrids]

@HoneycombAgent I took it to the shop, but I did blow ALOT of dust out of it first so it's good and clean. Shop called and said my drive is working too hard... TMS(too much shit) at start up. also missing the chipset driver which they are installing since I could not locate an updated version I need. Got a seagate hard drive so not sure how good or bad these are??? but it did test GOOD at the shop.

[HoneycombAgent]

@click4dylan2 Now you're telling me something different. How old is this hard drive? Because it seems like the bearings have aged so much that it's preventing the hard disk from reaching its full rotational speed

[HoneycombAgent]

@grettagrids The "thunk" sound is probably bad sectors. You should run scandisk or chkdsk, depending on the OS level. Download a hard disk utility to determine whether it's a hard error.