Thread: hardrive noise
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Old 15-03-2004, 15:41   #10
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Re: hardrive noise
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Originally Posted by Richard M
Is it like a sort of "clicking" sound?
If so, then this is "normal" - I have an IBM Deskstar 60GB (2 years old and counting!) and apparently it's due to the glass disks heating up then expanding.
When this happens, the head will write the data to the wrong place and the click is when is goes back to write the data again.
hmm that could actaully be it esp as it seems to happen when there is intense disk/cpu activity

e.g copieing a large file
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