Angus Auld wrote: > I seem to be getting a very annoying, and scary, high pitched > whining sound occasionally from my 3 week old Maxtor 40 GB > 7200rpm drive. > Should I back everything up now?! :-/ > > My drive mounts in a vertical position. Could that cause a problem? > I could find no warnings against vertical mounting in the docs > that came with it. > > The noise comes and goes, and just started doing so the > past day or so. It has been working very well otherwise. > > I just found my purchase receipt.....I may well need it. > Anyone able to give me a prognosis? ;-) > > Regards. > > --Angus > I have 30GB maxtor 7200 it made the whine noise ocasionally also. It died after a couple years, I still had their diagnostic floppy that came with the drive and ran the test phoned in the code and they sent me a new drive no charge except for return shipping on old drive.
The new drive started making a noise also after a while, I read some where about 7200rpm drives running hotter so I installed "hddtemp" and checked it, running 55c so I seperated my drives (they were stacked too close for one thing) and put a drive cooler on it and now "hddtemp" reports 35c. I don't know for sure if the noise was heat related for sure, but it has been more quiet since I put a cooler on it. You could try installing hddtemp and see what your temp is. I believe its on the cd's. Mike
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