This must be my year for hard drive problems.
Anyway, I have a Seagate SATA HDD that turned 2 years old 2 months ago.
I haven't done anything drastic to it aside from partitioning it into 4, and reinstalling a few OS's in different partitions a few times. Temperature is at constant 35 Celsius, for I have a cool air intake right in front of it. I clean it with air every 2-3 weeks, and I rarely use it for anything heavy - like using it as a file server or anything. On top of all that, it's never been dropped, shaken, or even tilted sideways.
It's about 2 weeks ago that I noticed it making a squeaking noise when starting or powering on from sleep. It's a very quick noise for about a fraction of a second, and I'm guessing it's when the spindle is taking off to build momentum.
Is this a sign of it starting to go bad? Is there anything I can do to prolong its life, like cleaning deeper, re-mounting to a different position, deleting partitions and freeing up some space?
It's pretty weird, I've never had any issue like this with any of my other WD HDD's. I've even owned an IDE 60GB WD HDD for 12 years, and was HEAVILY abused from gaming to downloading, etc., and never once it failed or made any strange noise. Only reason I no longer own it is because I sold it with my older PC.
Are Seagate HDD's not as reliable as WD? Or am I just worried over a harmless noise, that isn't necessarily a sign of a failing HDD?
Please let me know.
Anyway, I have a Seagate SATA HDD that turned 2 years old 2 months ago.
I haven't done anything drastic to it aside from partitioning it into 4, and reinstalling a few OS's in different partitions a few times. Temperature is at constant 35 Celsius, for I have a cool air intake right in front of it. I clean it with air every 2-3 weeks, and I rarely use it for anything heavy - like using it as a file server or anything. On top of all that, it's never been dropped, shaken, or even tilted sideways.
It's about 2 weeks ago that I noticed it making a squeaking noise when starting or powering on from sleep. It's a very quick noise for about a fraction of a second, and I'm guessing it's when the spindle is taking off to build momentum.
Is this a sign of it starting to go bad? Is there anything I can do to prolong its life, like cleaning deeper, re-mounting to a different position, deleting partitions and freeing up some space?
It's pretty weird, I've never had any issue like this with any of my other WD HDD's. I've even owned an IDE 60GB WD HDD for 12 years, and was HEAVILY abused from gaming to downloading, etc., and never once it failed or made any strange noise. Only reason I no longer own it is because I sold it with my older PC.
Are Seagate HDD's not as reliable as WD? Or am I just worried over a harmless noise, that isn't necessarily a sign of a failing HDD?
Please let me know.
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