Hard drive louder than normal

[sulanebouxi]

I have a seagate hard drive and normally it's really quiet, but now whenever it's reading or writing something to it, it's making very loud(relatively) clicking/reading sounds. It's usually very rapid and goes on for "bursts". I'm backing things up either way, but this seems very strange. DiskCheck gives no errors either. Any ideas?

 

[hennessy1]

sounds like its dying

 

[Puffnstuff]

Depends on the sounds. My seagates get loud especially while moving large files that require a lot of head movement (get your minds out of the gutter).

 

[ThePiston]

HDDs are practically disposable now - time for a new one, don't take the risk

 

[Laputa]

Backup the stuff and get it RMAed if it's still under warranty. It's going to fail sooner or later...

 

[jajig]

I googled diskcheck and it only seems to look for bad sectors what you want is a SMART analyzer to check for failing components in the drive.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Smart is usually pretty good and detecting a failing drive. It caught one of my new seagates that failed pretty much right out of the box.