Maxor hard drive with noise

[Greasy Burger]

Is it normal for a Maxtor 120GB 8mb cache ATA/133 to make screeching noise during defragment or boot up?

[james.miller]

a friend of mine has the 120gb maxtor and that too makes that noise at start-up. I've not seen any problems with it so i'm assuming it's normal.

[Guero]

Backup your most important stuff just in case. I hear about people loosing important stuff all the time due to hard drive crashes.

[CM50K]

try the IBM/HITACHI FEATURE TOOL and enable the AAM...
with activated accustic management you won´t hear your maxtor anymore :D

i know that maxtor also has this kind of tool but with this you have to plug your maxtor to the mainboard-ide and as master...
the IBM/HITACHI FEATURE TOOL doesn´t care where you plugged your hdd ;)

[warlock110]

who cares, my maxtor makes noices too, it still works, i guess that's common with all maxtor :)

[Derivative]

Yes my 80gb maxtor makes that noise as well.

[The_Jizzler]

man mine is dead silent, always,... hmmm...

[Greasy Burger]

It depends on the defintion of silence I guess. I have water cooling so I can hear my Maxtor loud and clear. It sound like a door with old and rusty hinges screeching everytime the hard drive spins

[DarkDraco]

my harddrive sounds like a mouse dancing on cotton. onlything i hear are the 2 fans i put on my cpu