Aaargh - Bad 7200.10 ?

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Just bought another 7200.10 - for RAID 0 ...

and on installing - jeez its loud - much louder than my other 7200.10 - both are pink glue ones.

I could just about live with the read/write sound - but every 2-3 mins I was hearing was almost sounded like - well you know the start of the noise when you keep your finger on shift too long ? well like that.

I thought - is it my PSU ? Is it a Capacitor on my mobo.

but sticking me head in my case - its the new 7200.10 - you can hear the (noisey !) read/write .. but every so often it makes almost like a "scratch"/"internal jump" noise ?

presumably this isn't right ?

pain in the neck - as just re-installed Vista on RAID 0 :(

it actually almost sounds like the heads crashing although I'm not sure it could be that as benching fine - and running Vista perfectly.


cheers, Mark.
 
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I refer to this sound as a "chirping" sound. Had 2 160 7200.7 drives, 1 made this noise the other didn't. At first I thought the sound was coming via the speaker from the mobo but it wasn't till I installed the drive in another machine that I realised it was the drive.

The most annoying thing for me was that the drive will make this "chirp" when sat in the BIOS and off course it's totally random and not related to disk accesses.

The drive died on me and I RMA'ed it and thank God the replacement was fine.
 
i got a seagate drive that makes this sound at random times, guess drive needs to be sent back at some point in time, its still under warranty till 2008 so i guess i can sit on it for a while.
 
thanks guys.

completed confused on this one ...

un-raided the 2 drives - and booted into my other boot on a PATA drive.

tested the new drive (yes I did get them the right way round :) ) - and not only did it pass the Seagate long test ... but didn't make one chirp for over 2 hours ! Not only did I run the drive fitness test, I ran defrag, copied lots of large files etc - and no chirps, in fact drive read/write was much quieter too ..

yet in RAID previously that morning - chirped 7 times just shutting down windows !

completely baffled - I've now re-installed Vista in RAID-0 - whether the chripring will be back - I don't know.

but if it does make the noise in Vista with drives set to RAID _ and RAID-0 why would it make a noise in RAID mode in the bios - but not with the bios set to IDE ? Is the seek pattern different like in AHCI ?

baffled is not the word !

thanks, Mark.
 
i have 2 200gb 7200.7 drives and they both whiiirr/ chirp quite often,

i had a chat with seagate just after i first got them and they assured me that its purely 'Thermal Calibration'

so basically when the drive starts to warm up it goes thru the drive making sure it doesnt get confused if a sector isnt where it was cos of heat expansion.

I have 1 drive in the normal case drive caddy with a fan over it and it doesnt whiir half as much as the one that isnt in the pc or actively cooled, so it must be heat related as they said.

personally it drives me NUTTS :eek: :mad: :confused: and even tho the pair are very nice in raid0 i have ripped them out and am selling them off! i have a very quiet pc and the only sound i want to hear is the drives accessing.

oh and i have a dead 250GB 7200.9, lasted about 3 months or something started to whistle like a kettle and then died (and took all my files with it! is know .. i have a backup now - tho its a 400gb seagate external LMAO!! its nice and quiet tho....)


As for the raid / not raid thing, it may be down to the drive not spinning down in raid and so getting hotter than in non raid?

and my final worry is now that seagate has took over maxtor... will the new maxtors start doing the same thing??? i hope not i love maxtors for how quiet they are!

/rant over

....nothing to see here ;)
 
thanks guys - I did wonder about heat - as the new drive was very hot to the touch indeed.

put the front bottom case fan in - and they are cool to the touch now - still I think its making the noise but not as often ...

I did have a think though ...

the newer one is a newer Revision - AAK and I've heard they are a fair amount slower than the old versions ...

what happens if you have 2 drives that are different speed wise in RAID 0 (which is what I have)

I'm not getting a weird noise because suddenly they are almost out of sync so to speak ?

thanks, MArk.
 
Buckster said:
what happens if you have 2 drives that are different speed wise in RAID 0 (which is what I have)
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I personally wouldnt recommend using drives in raid if they arent exactly the same, i havent tried it myself, but from what i have learnt it will hammer the performance if you run HD Tach on the array you want to be seeing around 120MB/sec starting slowly and fairly uniformally dropping off

if you have a look at my gallery here you will get a good idea of what different arrays act like.

I have a hardware raid0 of the 2 7200.7s running Vista atm, but hdtach doesnt like vista, and vista doesnt like leaving the hard drive alone for the test! :(
 
thanks for reply - its still plinking like anything (well once every 7-10 mins or so) - sounds like someone clinking 2 fine china cups together.

HD-Tach benches great - even in Vista

105MB average read speed, 12.9ms access, and 320MB/second burst speed ...

so pretty speedy :)

just think I'm going to have to RMA the drive as surely its not right :(

Mark.
 
if its more of a 'plink'? than a whiir i would be worried, and i would get the seatate drive utility and see what that says

i will upload my drive bench when i can, you are are able to take a screen cap of your hdtach bench and upload it for me to see how it looks compared to mine that would be great :)
 
sorry - didn't take a screen-cap - and now un-raided ready for drive to go back :(

was pretty flat across the array though - only a minor drop from start to finish.

definate "plink" type noise - like 2 fine pieces of china being clinked together ...

was very annoying- you could hear it 20 ft away !

Mark.
 
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