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Graham M · 17-12-2011, 18:22

It is unlikely that a port scan would cause the hard disk to make any noises as unless there is some sort of log stored on the drive, there is no reason that it would be accessed until someone actually managed to break in, it could well be a file indexing process or similar.

17-12-2011, 18:22	#2
Graham M - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Poole, Dorset Age: 40 Services: FreeSat+ Tivo V-Box VM 60MBit Posts: 13,365	Re: Monitoring connections to a network drive It is unlikely that a port scan would cause the hard disk to make any noises as unless there is some sort of log stored on the drive, there is no reason that it would be accessed until someone actually managed to break in, it could well be a file indexing process or similar.