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holy fuck
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:00 am
by Guest
My new hard drive just made a motherfucking scary noise. I'm downloading torrents 24/7 and surf at the same time, so I heard it make some weird clicks, but just now it made a fucking "tuck click tuck click buzzzzzzzzzzz" made me thing that it died. Weird cause its brand fucking new, bought it a week ago.
Maxtor 250gig 7200rpm Ultra/ATA133 16mb buffer 6B250R0
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:21 pm
by Tormentius
Go to Maxtor's website and download their drive diagostic application. That should tell you if its got issues developing.
Re: holy fuck
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:09 pm
by ^misantropia^
ToxicBug wrote:"tuck click tuck click buzzzzzzzzzzz"
'Sounds' like the spin-down noise that - AFAIK - all Maxtor drives make. The two I have do it all the time.
Re: holy fuck
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:01 am
by Guest
^misantropia^ wrote:ToxicBug wrote:"tuck click tuck click buzzzzzzzzzzz"
'Sounds' like the spin-down noise that - AFAIK - all Maxtor drives make. The two I have do it all the time.
I've NEVER heard that noise before, and its my second Maxtor.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:23 am
by Kills On Site
My Maxtor drives are silent, and I have 4 in the house and 4 in the office.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:33 am
by -SKID-
I hate maxtor. I will never buy them again. I have had 3! of them die on me. But the sounds you are describing sounds like the sounds two of them made shortly before dying.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:36 am
by ^misantropia^
*starts to worry*
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:16 am
by 4g3nt_Smith
^misantropia^ wrote:*starts to worry*
I've got 5 maxtors in the various computers in my home, and while the oldest two seem to be going downhill, they've been used quite heavily, and the others are nothing but good.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:28 am
by SOAPboy
-SKID- wrote:I hate maxtor. I will never buy them again. I have had 3! of them die on me. But the sounds you are describing sounds like the sounds two of them made shortly before dying.
OMG I HATE WD ILL NEVER BUY THEM BECAUSE IVE HAD 4 DIE ON ME..
And actually, i really wont ever buy another WD drive again.. nothing but bullshit issues with them..
Maxtor For Life *Throws gang sign things*
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:38 am
by 4g3nt_Smith
SOAPboy wrote:-SKID- wrote:I hate maxtor. I will never buy them again. I have had 3! of them die on me. But the sounds you are describing sounds like the sounds two of them made shortly before dying.
OMG I HATE WD ILL NEVER BUY THEM BECAUSE IVE HAD 4 DIE ON ME..
And actually, i really wont ever buy another WD drive again.. nothing but bullshit issues with them..
Maxtor For Life *Throws gang sign things*
Whats the Maxtor Gang Sign, upside down West Side?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:40 am
by SOAPboy
4g3nt_Smith wrote:SOAPboy wrote:-SKID- wrote:I hate maxtor. I will never buy them again. I have had 3! of them die on me. But the sounds you are describing sounds like the sounds two of them made shortly before dying.
OMG I HATE WD ILL NEVER BUY THEM BECAUSE IVE HAD 4 DIE ON ME..
And actually, i really wont ever buy another WD drive again.. nothing but bullshit issues with them..
Maxtor For Life *Throws gang sign things*
Whats the Maxtor Gang Sign, upside down West Side?
I guess
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:06 am
by SoM
i had my maxtors doing the same thing until if eventually crapped out..
my 2-3 month old seagate is making high pitch noises lately too...
out of all the PC items its the fucking hard drives that are fucking up on me
maybe i should turn off my pc lol
its on 24/7
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:47 am
by Guest
Mines also on 24/7, but thats the right way to run it either way, otherwise u'll stress it when u turn it on/off.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:38 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
Check your power settings to see what the drive shut down is...
Re: holy fuck
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:48 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
ToxicBug wrote:My new hard drive just made a motherfucking scary noise. I'm downloading torrents 24/7 and surf at the same time, so I heard it make some weird clicks, but just now it made a fucking "tuck click tuck click buzzzzzzzzzzz" made me thing that it died. Weird cause its brand fucking new, bought it a week ago.
Maxtor 250gig 7200rpm Ultra/ATA133 16mb buffer 6B250R0
this is payback for warezing
Re: holy fuck
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:29 pm
by Tormentius
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
this is payback for warezing
:icon19:
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:44 am
by YourGrandpa
I have 5 maxtor drives in my current PC and I've built at least 20 other other computers for friends and myself using maxtor drives. I've only had 1 problem.
But the clicking and ticking noise is something to worry about.
Get the maxtor drive utility and check it out.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:44 pm
by Foo
ToxicBug wrote:Mines also on 24/7, but thats the right way to run it either way, otherwise u'll stress it when u turn it on/off.
That's not really true. Assuming the PC is shut down correctly, the drive heads park themselves correctly and the unit shuts down as designed. In fact, unless you've bought some server-grade equipment (raptors or scsi disks for example), the units are not designed to run 24/7 and the heat damage + motor use over time will reduce the life of the unit.