Hard Drive is making a "quacking" sound?
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Someone Somewhere
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It's generally considered a 'clicking' sound, but I suppose you could call it quacking.
It's the sound of the heads misjudging their position and slamming into the stops. It generally indicates that your drive is dying, but how long it's got left is debatable. I've had drives that do it occasionally (that I only use for temporary storage, and not important data) that are still going strong after more than a year.,
Make sure you back up your data, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to fail in the next few days or anything. It could go at any time, though.
It's the sound of the heads misjudging their position and slamming into the stops. It generally indicates that your drive is dying, but how long it's got left is debatable. I've had drives that do it occasionally (that I only use for temporary storage, and not important data) that are still going strong after more than a year.,
Make sure you back up your data, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to fail in the next few days or anything. It could go at any time, though.
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I'd be curious as to how many of the seagate drives actually fail compared to everyone else - from what I can tell, they've got a far worse reputation, but it would be interesting to see if reality reflects that.
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i've been repairing pc's for 20 years, by far the worst drives were maxtor, im not even sure if they still make drives, havent seen one in ages. seagates were somewhat reliable, but will eventually fail, like most things in life. i tend to stick with WD, as i still have WD hdd's that are 15+ years old, and still work. not like i havent seen a bad wd drive before, its just a rarity for me.
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Seagate used to be bad, we avoided them like the plague but they seem to be better now. All companies have drive failures, if you want it keep a copy.
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daswilhelm - you are absolutely correct about Maxtor drives being crap, had many fail in the family.
I have actually found that the Seagate drives have a better life then the WD, but that is what is off my experience.
Now, what about if the hard drive is not making the noise any more...?
I have actually found that the Seagate drives have a better life then the WD, but that is what is off my experience.
Now, what about if the hard drive is not making the noise any more...?
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depends how much you value your data. if you dont care about losing whats on your drive if it fails, then keep using it.
Just had a WD Skorpio die on me last week. Replaced it with a Seagate Momentus. My server is a combo of Seagate Barracudas and WD Greens with an external Toshiba for backup. And they are all checking out. My daily driver has 300GB and 500GB Samsung drives from 2007 and 2008. I still use a pair of 12 year old 40GB Barracudas that I use for clean, activated images of Win 7.
I lost a 1TB Seagate a year ago when it fell about 7 feet onto a cement floor inside of its enclosure. The only other drives I had fail in the last decade and half were a pair of 200GB WD JB drives and even that was after 5-10 years of use and being moved around from systems to external enclosures.
Moral of the story, every manufacturer has a couple bad ones but in general they are all pretty reliable. All else being equal, Seagate gets more complaints because they sell the most drives and have for the last few years. I've learned the hard way that if you just install the drives, don't handle them too much and keep then cool, then they are all pretty good.
I lost a 1TB Seagate a year ago when it fell about 7 feet onto a cement floor inside of its enclosure. The only other drives I had fail in the last decade and half were a pair of 200GB WD JB drives and even that was after 5-10 years of use and being moved around from systems to external enclosures.
Moral of the story, every manufacturer has a couple bad ones but in general they are all pretty reliable. All else being equal, Seagate gets more complaints because they sell the most drives and have for the last few years. I've learned the hard way that if you just install the drives, don't handle them too much and keep then cool, then they are all pretty good.
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