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Sometimes it is quiet as normal, or it could growl or the clicking sound.

I isolated it to the HDD, by using a pencil to stop the CPU fan.

I tried the paperclip trick. Only made some smoke. (j/k)

I have already copied My Documents, and any other critcal files to CD.

I'll keep it running for a while to see what other sounds it makes, in the
troes of death.

A shame tho, this Western Digital is less than a year old. problem is, I bought
it unboxed, thinking it was a good deal.

Thankfully I bought that Gateway laptop.

Now the clicking is almost quiet. It's just a matter of time.

Sounds normally quiet now. HDD is in a rack-mount, that has a fan, but the
clicking is too slow to be a tiny fan. It sounds more like the arm is striking
a stop.

When it does die, I will dissect the HDD, to inspect it.




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Necessity is the Mother of invention.

I'd tell you a secret, but it wouldn't be a secret anymore.

My last hard drive failure happened without any strange noises. Just random
freeze ups until finally it would not spin at all.

>From: "bmoag"
>Newsgroups: alt.computer

>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:56:04 GMT
>
>
>
>My last hard drive failure happened without any strange noises. Just random
>freeze ups until finally it would not spin at all.

I've had the same problems. This one is going to die slow. It has been sounding
normal for the last 2-3 hours.

I had a customer, whose complaint was freeze ups. Sure enough after 15 minutes,
the mouse stopped responding. She had no AV, FW, or SpyBot S&D. I managed,
after three attempts, to get SpyBotS&D downloaded. Ran it to show her the
adware/spyware on her Celeron/Win98 system. After that it never locked up,
while clearing clutter, or during a partial (30%) defrag. I spent the remainder
of the time, working a printer (Epson777) driver problem.



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Necessity is the Mother of invention.

I'd tell you a secret, but it wouldn't be a secret anymore.

If I remeber correctly that western digital has a three year warrenty, I
think...

" caveat lector - reader beware" <> wrote in
message news:...
> Sometimes it is quiet as normal, or it could growl or the clicking sound.
>
> I isolated it to the HDD, by using a pencil to stop the CPU fan.
>
> I tried the paperclip trick. Only made some smoke. (j/k)
>
> I have already copied My Documents, and any other critcal files to CD.
>
> I'll keep it running for a while to see what other sounds it makes, in the
> troes of death.
>
> A shame tho, this Western Digital is less than a year old. problem is, I
bought
> it unboxed, thinking it was a good deal.
>
> Thankfully I bought that Gateway laptop.
>
> Now the clicking is almost quiet. It's just a matter of time.
>
> Sounds normally quiet now. HDD is in a rack-mount, that has a fan, but
the
> clicking is too slow to be a tiny fan. It sounds more like the arm is
striking
> a stop.
>
> When it does die, I will dissect the HDD, to inspect it.
>
>
>
>
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> -- - -- - - -- - - - -- - - -- --
> - -- - - - -- - -- - -- -- -- -- - -- -
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> Necessity is the Mother of invention.
>
> I'd tell you a secret, but it wouldn't be a secret anymore.
>
>

only on the enterprise line and and SE drives. The rest have 1 year
warranties.



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"Frederick" <> wrote in message
news:n03nb.27107$mZ5.130288@attbi_s54...
> If I remeber correctly that western digital has a three year warrenty, I
> think...
>
> " caveat lector - reader beware" <> wrote in
> message news:...
> > Sometimes it is quiet as normal, or it could growl or the clicking
sound.
> >
> > I isolated it to the HDD, by using a pencil to stop the CPU fan.
> >
> > I tried the paperclip trick. Only made some smoke. (j/k)
> >
> > I have already copied My Documents, and any other critcal files to CD.
> >
> > I'll keep it running for a while to see what other sounds it makes, in
the
> > troes of death.
> >
> > A shame tho, this Western Digital is less than a year old. problem is, I
> bought
> > it unboxed, thinking it was a good deal.
> >
> > Thankfully I bought that Gateway laptop.
> >
> > Now the clicking is almost quiet. It's just a matter of time.
> >
> > Sounds normally quiet now. HDD is in a rack-mount, that has a fan, but
> the
> > clicking is too slow to be a tiny fan. It sounds more like the arm is
> striking
> > a stop.
> >
> > When it does die, I will dissect the HDD, to inspect it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - -- - -- - --
> > -- - -- - - -- - - - -- - - -- --
> > - -- - - - -- - -- - -- -- -- -- - -- -
> > --
> > Necessity is the Mother of invention.
> >
> > I'd tell you a secret, but it wouldn't be a secret anymore.
> >
> >
>
>

Frederick wrote:
>
> If I remeber correctly that western digital has a three year warrenty, I
> think...

Just went to one year.


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Plato <|@|.|> wrote in a message:
> Frederick wrote:
>>
>> If I remeber correctly that western digital has a three year
>> warrenty, I think...
>
> Just went to one year.

I picked up a 120GB JB (Special Edition) yesterday with the expectation of a
1-year warranty but noticed a notation on the package of 3-year warranty.
WD Web site also advertises a 3-year warranty http://tinyurl.com/tapa. The
serial number checks out as warranty exp. date of 10/23/2006. What a
pleasant surprise.
Dean