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i have a thinkpad t21 800mhz laptop which i use for college work and surfing the net.

it has an ibm djsa 220 harddrive.

sometimes i will hear a noise when the hardrive is access but it sounds a lot louader than normal disk activity

almost like a clunk i was worried that the drive is crashing but now im not so sure as i used speedfan which although on the laptop canot read the temp and fan settings can read the smart status of the drive and its reading drive fitness at 100%

also i have had no bad sectors or problems reading/writing the drive.

this drive is fairly noisy anyway (i can always hear it spinning) so it this noise just the drive seaking to find data or is it dieing?

i know from a old laptop that has a dieing harddisk does make a clunk noise but when it does that it does it repeatedly and would result in a BSD although ive had nothing from this machine doing the same.

just downloaded ibm drive fitness test and gonan run it