hard drive making weird noises

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Sat Nov 23 22:47:00 2002

In a message dated 11/23/2002 3:49:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
foo_at_siconic.com writes:

<< > Try googling for "IBM Deathstar" (that is NOT a typo). The Deskstars are
> notorious for poor reliability.
 
 Oh shit.
 
> IIRC, that's what they do when they start to fail. Get your data backed up
> ASAP. That thing'll be dead in two weeks tops.
 
 It's been doing that for months now. I've had it for a little less than a
 year.
 
> Got a CD or DVD recorder and a stack of blank, good quality (Verbatim
> DatalifePlus SuperAZO) media?
 
 Gawd damn Fry's specials.
 
 Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival


Normally IBM drives are pretty good. The issue was about some particular
model that was rated for xxxx hours of constant usage or something like that.
Check slashdot archives for discussion on it. If it's a SMART drive, you have
the program that can query the drive, it might be able to tell you if
anything bad is happening.

I've still got IBM SCSI drives from 8-10 years ago still going strong with
that soft tick-tick-tick recalibrate noise happening every once in a while.
The 400 meg ones are so quiet you can't tell when they doing R/W operations.



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