How do Hard Disks Make Noise?
 

Sat here, listening to my HDD chunnering aweh, I come to wonder ... how does it make that noise? :confused:

It has moving parts. They tend to make sounds when they are working.

and a good benchmark for the age of a HD is the noise level, the louder the older

Now what do we say? :P

I wasn't about to do this, cause I thought my only bad HD was still downstairs(don't feel like going down cause I'm very sick...) but then I remembered this one screams really loud and makes freaky noises when it thinks...so why not rip it apart and see why it's doing this ;)

WTF HAPPENED!

if it's making too much noise you need to eather get more ram, or defrag

LOL...don't worry... :lol:

The HD was dying...trust me. When it would spin up, it would make the really high pitch screaming noise. Then, then it would think, it sounding like somthing was suffed in there, or it was full of water...VERY weird. And I'm positive it wasn't just how this HD sounded cause I have a few others just like it, and none sound remotely close. Also, it just started doing this one day...not like it always did it.

im still a bit confused by that image
was the platter falling apart?
or the needle chopping the plate into pieces?

OH! You think I broke the platters up or somthing? LOL! :lol:

OK ok...everything is still completely intact. The big black spot is the reflection of my lamp. I don't have much light in my room, so I set it under the lamp to get a decent picture. If you look on the opposite site, you can see my camera... Those lines along the top...they are my crummy wall paper. That textured look everywhere else is my celling...

Heh, I tried to get a cleaner picture, but with the platters so reflecive, it's nearly impossible...

Oh, and since some people think defraging it would of helped...here's the sounds it was making. Yes, it still works, or did before I opened it...

http://64.53.95.207:30/HD.mp3

yeah i dont think opening it would help...
lol

i would do a low level format

lol sounds like crap to me.haha never heard a hardrive sound like that.heard it grind like nutts on my dad's old p1 with 96mb ram fully upgraded but now he has a new one.but i never heard his hardrive sound like that lol.oh yeah how did you record that?

Heh, it's actually a bit worse after I opened it... Something probably got knocked off and was really making it grid. No matter, I was about to toss that drive anyway. Oh, and that sound after it spins up...thats not it thinking, that was just it sitting there...

Recording it was very simple...I just took my video camera and recorded it...so if you want video of it, I can dump that as well :P

if u dont want it, i would be glad to take it off your hands

its good for teaching IT classes

Oops...sorry...it's a bit late now. I took the think apart, trying to find out what that horrible noise was... I should have other bad HDs around here somewhere if your really interested... I know a few of my old 1.5G had bad sectors that I couldn't LLF away...

Sounds like the spindle bearings failing.

The needle? we don't use no stinkin' needles! ;)
The fact that the platter was still shiny means little to no chance the heads crashed.
I think the lines you see in the pic, were reflections( the disks are flat within approx. 3 atomic layers, and so are very reflective)

yeah The_Other_One told me it is the reflection