Usually when a drive starts to make noise, it is caused by the bearings. I have had drives last for years while making noise. But if this is a new drive (less than a year) you will probably be able to get it replaced. But since you will have to deal with the manufacturer of the drive (which will mean down time) it would probably do best to go out and purchase another drive replace the noisy drive and then get it replaced. Once replaced, you will have a spare drive for future use.
For the copy, I would suggest dd rather than cp.
Mike
Anne Wilson wrote:
Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the new drive.
We have had workmen in the house for over 2 weeks, and there has been an incredible amount of dust. I cleaned out the inside of the box as well as I could after the main part of the work was complete, but it was only at about time that the noise started. I think it is when writing to swap.
I suspect that dust has got in where I cannot follow. How likely is that?
I wonder if I should be buying another drive of the same size, then doing an overnight cp -a to the new drive, then attempting to use rsync to keep them mirrored, just in case. What do you think?
Anne
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