Hi,
I have a PC running Server 2003... it has a few reasonably important things on it... and I'd rather not risk anything. As a result of that, I've ordered a pair of new 80Gb Seagates which I'm going to run in RAID1 to be on the safe side.
The existing drive makes a lot of high pitched squeak sounds while working (as well as the usually HDD rumbling sound). The PC has bust on a couple of occasions, to be solved by a restart. Today, it got slower and slower and slower... then stopped responding (from the network). I rebooted, and it said 'disk read error'. That's when I threw in the towel and ordered the pair of new discs. I turned it off for 30secs, tapped the HDD, turned it back on and it booted.
I've run all the tests on the SeaTools disc and run chkdsk. No hardware problems, apparently. There was a file structure issue, but that was more likely to be to do with me hitting reset without shutting down.
So - do you think it's bust or not? The noises don't sound normal, but apparently it works fine (the tests persuaded me not to replace it last time something happened a month or so ago).
I have a PC running Server 2003... it has a few reasonably important things on it... and I'd rather not risk anything. As a result of that, I've ordered a pair of new 80Gb Seagates which I'm going to run in RAID1 to be on the safe side.
The existing drive makes a lot of high pitched squeak sounds while working (as well as the usually HDD rumbling sound). The PC has bust on a couple of occasions, to be solved by a restart. Today, it got slower and slower and slower... then stopped responding (from the network). I rebooted, and it said 'disk read error'. That's when I threw in the towel and ordered the pair of new discs. I turned it off for 30secs, tapped the HDD, turned it back on and it booted.
I've run all the tests on the SeaTools disc and run chkdsk. No hardware problems, apparently. There was a file structure issue, but that was more likely to be to do with me hitting reset without shutting down.
So - do you think it's bust or not? The noises don't sound normal, but apparently it works fine (the tests persuaded me not to replace it last time something happened a month or so ago).