if a hard drive gets noisy, is it gonna fail ?

[colin1]

my hard drive has started making a fairly high pitched whirring rattling noise

a week ago it only did this on start up but now its pretty continuous

does this means the bearings on it are gonna fail or something ?

its about 2 years old, is used everyday and often on more than 6 hours a day
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[sickpup]

Probably. It's considered one of the signs.

[djr]

[daz|n00by]

Time to make a back up !
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[bazza]

Make 100% sure it's the HD. I replaced a noisy power supply recently only to discover it was the fan on the gfx card right next to it that was the problem...
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[iCraig]

Doesn't Windows support SMART?

If it does get a utility like Sisoft Sandra or something else that can read the SMART status and that will tell you indefinately if its failing.

[senna_f4]

Colin, do the following,

1. Backup your data now!!
2. Defragment your hardisk, may be your disk is badly fragmented, so lots of seeking for data.
3. Download https://www.snapfiles.com/get/hddhealth.html or some other utility from your hdd manufacturer to see the smart messages.

What spoils a hardisk is;
1. Frequent stop/starts
2. High temperatures

My hardisks on some pcs, have run for 6 years non stop, with adequate cooling 39oC average temperature. High temperatures and it fails like in 6 months.

Hope it helps
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[Itchy]

don't worry about it too much in any event , cus HDDs are much simpler to install than say with win95 , format the HDD , put it in with the jumper as master and stick in your (hooky) win2K CD and ta da it jump starts the CD drive and installs just like that , no messing with shite like the MSCD.exe thingie to have to jump start the CD drive.
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[yambabe]

So if this noise was happening with a laptop too (probably caused by an overheating problem as the battery died a couple months ago and has been run as mains-only since and gets pretty warm underneath) and the user has had 2 blue screens of death within days of each other (and has not used the laptop since because she wants to back some stuff up next time she switches it on) is it time to buy a new laptop?
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[senna_f4]

babyyam No!

1.Change hard disk £60 ish

2. new battery

3. blow out all dust




If you need help ask
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[Skunkcap Freddie]

depends, i had a harddrive that went noisy and kept runnin for a further year .


i had a noisy harddrive but its a seagate. and thats nothin new there.
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[NSR Mick]

Some hard drives are naturally noisy. Its if the noise changes you should worry.

Also laptop hard drives will rattle when not in use if you shake them gently, this is normal.

SCSI Hard drive on the other hand make a bleeding racket all the time.
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