new seagate hard drive is making terrible high pitched squeal!! help

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kramerica

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anyone ever come accross this before?
I have compusa enclosure for using an internal drive as an external drive. I had a maxtor in it, but then the maxtor went on an airplane, and when it came off, it was dead.

As for the seagate, i have it in the external enclosure, and i have formatted it, and it emits a terrible high pitched squeal. It's not incredibly loud, but it is present. The old hard drive didn't do that.
The squeal goes away if i don't do anything with the harddrive for a while, but as soon as i open a file saved upon it, i get that squeal again.

Do you think this is just how this hard drive/enclosure combo will be, or does it sound like i got a bum drive and i could exchange it for one that doesn't do this.

Thanks
 
I had an old 3.2G drive that made an extreamly loud noise. It also sounded really weird when it was thinking... Either way, I know some drives just kind of make those noises, but some are obviously louder than others. My guess it that it's about to give out, but I have heard some pretty loud drives that just kept on working...
 
The first thing to try is running it inside the case instead of the external enclosure to see what it does then. If you still hear some "unexpected" sounds then you know the drive is... nothing you want! The squeal shows some type of problem. But one drive here while installed in an older case started hearing clicking sounds until a board fault was reaized. The external exclosure is one thing to suspicious of.
 
I dont think the enclosure would be the cause of those noises. I mean, compatibility problems, yes. Speed problems, yes. But an enclosure cannot PHYSICALLY change the HDD in order for it to start making noises. Kapiche?

Exchange the HDD for a new one.
 
Why is it that I never hear noises from any drives except for the problems seen with the last board? The same drive that made clicking sounds there is perfectly quiet as the second drive in the new build. But then these are WD used here. That sounds like a read head dragging from being out of alignment.
 
That's the bearings doing that. The reason it doesn't do it after a while is because the HDD spins down when you're not using it.
 
If the spindle is loose to any degree or a platter is a little warped there isn't much room between the read arm, read heads, or atenuator. With some metal to metal contact you could hear some squeailing. You can see how close everything is inside a drive from picture here.

 
Ummmm. That picture is perfectly useless. Why? The space between the head and the platter is less than the thickness of a human hair. A piece of dust would actually crash the drive (and thus why they are made in hermetically sealed environments). A warped platter wouldn't even spin without a really loud scraping sound as the head scrapes the glass or metal in the platter (I still remember you saying they were made out of plastic.. lol) It takes a hell of a lot to warp a platter. Under normal conditions it's impossible.

A spindle doesn't just "come loose". hahaha. It's set in a sleeve bearing. If the bearing wears, then you will hear a squealing sound. If the spindle "wobbles" as you put it, you would hear a scraping sound....

Again, you need to brush up on your tech and scrap the pictures.
 
SirKenin said:
Ummmm. That picture is perfectly useless. Why? The space between the head and the platter is less than the thickness of a human hair. A piece of dust would actually crash the drive (and thus why they are made in hermetically sealed environments). A warped platter wouldn't even spin without a really loud scraping sound as the head scrapes the glass or metal in the platter (I still remember you saying they were made out of plastic.. lol) It takes a hell of a lot to warp a platter. Under normal conditions it's impossible.

A spindle doesn't just "come loose". hahaha. It's set in a sleeve bearing. If the bearing wears, then you will hear a squealing sound. If the spindle "wobbles" as you put it, you would hear a scraping sound....

Again, you need to brush up on your tech and scrap the pictures.
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You can hear a squealing sound without the spindle coming loose. Just put a screwdriver into it. :confused: Picture no good? :confused: How about a video on "Sticking a screwdriver into a hard drive and destroying it." seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORlW0Lqz7U&mode=related&search= :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
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