hard drive making weird noises

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Tue Nov 26 08:57:21 2002

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:

> 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.

There's a *big* difference between IBM IDE and SCSI drives.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 08:57:21 GMT