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Title: Sounds of a failing hard drive
Post by: pendragon on January 25, 2009, 09:10:26 AM

The folks at Data Cent have posted a collection (by mfgr.) of the sounds various hard drives make when they are failing. Of course, should you be so unfortunate as to hear such, waste no time in making a backup (or two).

Details and additional data are here.

Title: Sounds of a failing hard drive
Post by: chriskleeman on January 25, 2009, 10:08:24 AM

So, I'm having my Sunday coffee, perusing TS, and I come across this post, and my wife looks at me and begins to question my sanity as I investigate these awful sounds... Have certainly heard one or two of them myself, and was fortunate enough to be backed up when the drive finally did clunk out!

Great link, Harv! Thanks!

Chris K

Title: Sounds of a failing hard drive
Post by: pendragon on January 25, 2009, 11:54:34 AM

Chris,

And, if one were a bit roguish (not moi), they could copy those sounds, write a script to randomly launch & play them, and then insert that in another's Start Up folder.

Should your former friend threaten violence upon your body, tell him RHP made you do it.

Title: Sounds of a failing hard drive
Post by: sandbox on January 25, 2009, 12:30:17 PM

The western digital sounded like my Buslink crash which i was able to recover the data from....
http://www.acsdata.com/buslink-data-recovery.htm

It was a bad experience, I dropped it, but it was the worst drive I've owned to date long before it took the plunge. Slow and noisy.

Title: Sounds of a failing hard drive
Post by: jcarter on January 26, 2009, 02:07:24 PM

Wow, what a bunch of scary noises!  I hope I never hear them.
My husband knows car problem noises, he can listen to one and say, "Oh, that guy needs a new whatever".
Jane