Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100. > Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very > basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click > or a metallic type sound. It sounds like the heads are doing random > reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily. Thing is, > there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop. All the > drives should be basically idle. I even went to single user mode to be > sure nothing in KDE was doing some index thingy or something. Still, > nothing showed that there should be any drive activity, including the > hard drive light on the case. > > <<< SNIP >>> > > Thoughts? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
Well ain't this interesting. I was about to pull the side off that monster Cooler Master HAF-932 when I moved my router, which sits on top of the case over the top fan. When I moved it, the sound stopped. When I sat it back down, it made that noise again but slightly different. So, I moved the router a little further back. Now all is quiet. No weird noises for the last several minutes now. After finding out about this drive, now I'm nervous about depending on it for a backup. Bad thing is, I've got two of these drives now. Different batches but still. Since firmware seems to have some affect on this, is this a good version to have? Firmware Version: CC25 That's on the new drive. The old drive is: Firmware Version: CC29 Weird, my new drive seems to have older firmware than my old drive. How's that work I wonder? My old drive is a couple years old at least. I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I don't have to buy pacemakers. :/ Dale :-) :-)
