Hello!
Since a few days I'm witnessing a strange behaviour of my HDDs.
From time to time, even when the PC is not booted into Windows but e.g. sitting in the BIOS setup screen, the HDD heads start continuously seeking, without any application apparently doing accesses (which is obvious when the PC is in the BIOS setup... ). It is small and quiet, but fast and continuous seek noises, as if the HDDs were stepping very quickly track-by-track to read through the whole drive. From time to time there's a little louder seek noise inbetween.
As soon as I access the HDD in question, the seeking stops. Performance and behaviour of the HDDs is otherwise all normal. SMART tools show no dangerous values, temp is normal. Even after rebooting or turning the PC off and on again the "seeking cycles" repeat after some random time. Just now the seeking started about a minute after I booted the PC, but right now it is quiet for like 20 minutes.
The HDDs in question are:
Seagate Barracuda ST3320620AS (SATA-2)
Seagate Barracuda ST3160827AS (SATA-1)
My mainboard is an Asus M2N with an Athlon 64 X2 2.6GHz.
I'm wondering if this behaviour is normal for those HDDs and I simply did not notice so far. I got a new PC two weeks ago which is much quieter fan-wise than my old one. Are the HDDs doing some self-test or so? I've had the ST316 for about a year now, whereas the ST332 is new (two weeks), and so far I've never consciously observed that strange seeking behaviour yet.
Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Frank
Since a few days I'm witnessing a strange behaviour of my HDDs.
From time to time, even when the PC is not booted into Windows but e.g. sitting in the BIOS setup screen, the HDD heads start continuously seeking, without any application apparently doing accesses (which is obvious when the PC is in the BIOS setup... ). It is small and quiet, but fast and continuous seek noises, as if the HDDs were stepping very quickly track-by-track to read through the whole drive. From time to time there's a little louder seek noise inbetween.
As soon as I access the HDD in question, the seeking stops. Performance and behaviour of the HDDs is otherwise all normal. SMART tools show no dangerous values, temp is normal. Even after rebooting or turning the PC off and on again the "seeking cycles" repeat after some random time. Just now the seeking started about a minute after I booted the PC, but right now it is quiet for like 20 minutes.
The HDDs in question are:
Seagate Barracuda ST3320620AS (SATA-2)
Seagate Barracuda ST3160827AS (SATA-1)
My mainboard is an Asus M2N with an Athlon 64 X2 2.6GHz.
I'm wondering if this behaviour is normal for those HDDs and I simply did not notice so far. I got a new PC two weeks ago which is much quieter fan-wise than my old one. Are the HDDs doing some self-test or so? I've had the ST316 for about a year now, whereas the ST332 is new (two weeks), and so far I've never consciously observed that strange seeking behaviour yet.
Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Frank