Seagate OEM sata 120 GB drive question

[Cisco Kid]

I have a Seagate 120 gb OEM sata drive, are these drives generally noisy as mine is quite noisy but it appears to be working fine. I question the noise since I switched cases, I have this in a Antec case vs my previous Thermaltake 2000A III case which used drive rails that were plastic to hold dive in the bay, the Antec uses screws to mount in the steel bay. I was wondering if it was an annoying vibration but it appears not. I did bang the drive by accident and I wonder if this damaged the platters, and whether I should rma it.

Cisoc KId

[K1ll1nT1m3]

It doesnt take much shock to start damage on HDD. I personally wouldnt RMA it ( unless you can be without it for a while ) until it you start seeing corrupted data. That is usually a good sign the head has hit the platter. Once you start seeing corrupted data, it will most likely just get worse.

If you can be with out it, then you might want to RMA it, just due to noise. Thats your call though.

Edit: just a thought. You might try fomating the whole drive, then use a error checking progam to scan the disk. It should tell you if there any corrupted sectors.

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by K1ll1nT1m3
It doesnt take much shock to start damage on HDD. I personally wouldnt RMA it ( unless you can be without it for a while ) until it you start seeing corrupted data. That is usually a good sign the head has hit the platter. Once you start seeing corrupted data, it will most likely just get worse.

If you can be with out it, then you might want to RMA it, just due to noise. Thats your call though.

Edit: just a thought. You might try fomating the whole drive, then use a error checking progam to scan the disk. It should tell you if there any corrupted sectors.


formatting it noooo nooo, lol I had thought about this and checking it out with a proggy as you said, we will see how it goes , the noise is just so annoying...

cisco kid

[K1ll1nT1m3]

Running the diagnostic program and checking for corrupt sectors, is all I can really think of. I dont know of a way to check the spindle, other than RMAing the drive. If you start to get corrupt sectors, I would start to worry.

Since it seems you have important data on it, you might want to think about backing it up. Just incase. Good luck.

[Xaotic]

You might want to check the SMART values on the drive using an application. It can give indications of the heath of the drive. You may also need to enable SMART in the BIOS for it to read. Utilities are available from the manufacturer or Speedfan is available here:

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Some drives are noisy, but it's better to have a backup and run the diags just in case.