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Old 18-11-2008, 01:22 PM
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The Worst Sound You Will Ever Hear - Dying HDD
Someone recorded all these dying HDDs.

Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent.com - Datacent

It is nightmare material. Don't listen to it around small children or those easily scared.

"Western Digital 500GB desktop hard drive with bad bearings can't gain full rotational speed."

Give me shivers down my spine.
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Old 18-11-2008, 01:59 PM
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The maxtor tone one sounds cools though
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So three questions please...

1) What are normal Hard Drive operating sounds? (I know that question is so open ended, but I just had to ask it.)

2) The list on this site talks of beeps and sirens, beside the mechanical sounds, so where do these beeps and sirens come from? Does the Hard Drive have some speaker in them?

3) The "Hitachi/IBM laptop drive with bad heads making clicking sound" sounds just like the sound my MacBook Hard Drive made when it stopped working, so do I assume that is has bad heads? And can these bad heads be fixed for one last attempt at getting my data back?
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Old 18-11-2008, 04:39 PM
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3) The "Hitachi/IBM laptop drive with bad heads making clicking sound" sounds just like the sound my MacBook Hard Drive made when it stopped working, so do I assume that is has bad heads? And can these bad heads be fixed for one last attempt at getting my data back?
Yes for a steep price. Anywhere between $2400 and $8000
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Old 18-11-2008, 05:22 PM
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The 2GB HD in my 8100/80 has dud bearings that make it overheat so it's WAY too hot to touch, and is so noisy I can barely bear to be in the same room as it...

http://www.danamania.com/tmp/8100noise.mp4

Been running like that for about six years now, on & off. takes a thwack to get running again, but it works fine.
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Old 18-11-2008, 05:24 PM
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Yes for a steep price. Anywhere between $2400 and $8000
yes with an if.

i had a 500GB WD (i think) drive fail last july, and i sent it to a data recovery company, they had it for 6 months, and couldn't do anything as they couldn't find parts (from memory they needed heads) from the same model/batch #, and they tried channels here (au) and around the globe. apparently there can be enough of a change between batches that they need to find the same batch #..
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but it can be beautiful... imagine it.. as a radiohead song...

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