Hard drive noise visualized - clunk of death

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Uploaded by on Aug 4, 2009

If you ever wondered what causes the 'clunk of death' noise in a dying hard drive, this video will put your curiosity to rest.

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  • This is the result of failing read/write heads.

  • Great visual. Thanks for sharing.

  • hmm... thats a fujitsu it looks like. and it has a bad spot on the media, or bad heads...

  • lol its like -clunk- "fuck! try it again" clunk- "fuck! try it again" clunk- "fuck! try it again"

  • Can someone help me? I'm hearing the exact noise from 0:00 to 0:13 in my notebook.. is that normal?

  • Poor thing is confused xD

  • Playstation3Gamer10 yes they are! i gota 520 gb one in ma computer right know werks great. =]

  • poor thing :(. western digital is the best silent and fast. and they last long. Seagate sucks

  • um this hard drives no good. its fried.

  • @super3slug yeah my pc is quiet and so are my fans that is why i can here my hard drives. i use to have the tower on the desk next to me but cant here them anymore as its under the desk now.

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