How do Hard Disks Make Noise?

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

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

[Jason425]

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!

[Uranium-235]

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

LOL...don't worry...

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!

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