Hard drive noises?

[Hank Kinsley]

I just installed new hard drive. It installed and formatted (long format) fine. I put it under heavy load yesterday for the first time, copying 80GB of files over to it, and it was occasionally making some noises (ticks, hums etc). It stopped happening after about 40GB into the transfer.

Are these sounds something I should be worried about or are they "normal"? Should I return this drive? My OS doesn't run off this drive so it is only in use for music and video stuff.

It's a Seagate 7200.11 500GB, ST3500320AS, btw.

[zoobie]

there's usually an HDD analysis program by the mfg...maybe try running it and see what it says

[jagabo]

When a drive hits bad blocks it attempts to realign the heads. This usually makes a humming or buzzing noise and several clicks -- much louder than the normal sounds a drive makes. Perform a disk scan for errors with "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" enabled. And yes, run the manufactures diagnostics.

[Hank Kinsley]

Here are the initial Seagate diagnostic results:

Short self test = fail
Long self-test = fail
Short random = pass
Long random = still doing it.

No sounds during test....yet. The fails are troubling, however, the drive seems to be working fine (plays mp3s from it good). It's been installed for 6 days.

[Number Six]

I would return it for warranty replacement - it can't be trusted for reliability.

[budz]

Here are the initial Seagate diagnostic results:

Short self test = fail
Long self-test = fail
Short random = pass
Long random = still doing it.

No sounds during test....yet. The fails are troubling, however, the drive seems to be working fine (plays mp3s from it good). It's been installed for 6 days.

As already mentioned return the defective hard drive. Return it to Seagate or where you bought it from.

[jagabo]

I agree with the others. Since it's a new drive return it and get another.