my HD's (Maxtor) are NOT making noises and the "noise" i was referring to
was the ever increasing loudness of head-seek chatter and spindle whine.
i have a 2.5 GB Maxtor that whines like an old B&W TV but it still works
great after over 40K hrs of operation.
tip: when the whine gets too loud flip the HD over (think 6 axis') - 8^)
honestly - i have used and abused HD's from several manufacturers both
professionally and personally and Maxtor beats them hands-down.
note: some of the high-end SCSI drives from Quantum outperformed everything
else for a while which is probably why Maxtor bought them.
just my buck-two-eighty...
thor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Blenke" <icblenke@nks.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:59
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Uh Oh! HDA Errors!
> thor_consulting@yahoo.com wrote:
> > sure...
> >
> > WD: they go offline for no reason and never come back but they are
still
> > spinning
> > IBM: they go offline for no reason and never come back but i hear the
click
> > and spin-down
> > others: similar problems as well as varying degrees of longevity and
noise
> >
> > before you ask:
> > APM is disabled in BIOS and i have experienced this with several
different
> > power supplies
> >
> > thor
>
> Find UCSC SmartSuite packaged for your distribution. Debian users can
> apt-get install smartsuite. Then try smartsuite against your ATA device
> to query the SMART settings:
>
> smartsuite -a /dev/hda
>
> Smartsuite also allows you to tell the drive to enter various testing
> modes, everything from brief online tests to lengthy offline tests
> (where the drive is unavailable to access for the duration).
>
> Honestly, if your drives are making noises, transfer whatever data off
> the drive that you can and REPLACE IT. RAID 1 mirroring or RAID 5
> striping is always a good idea with cheap IDE drives... they simply
> don't have the life they once did, longevity appears to be inversely
> proportional to the increased density.
>
> --
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
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>
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