The sound of a failing hard drive

[charlie]

Dunno how useful this is, but a data recovery shop has put 3 dozen sound clips of various brands of hard drives behaving badly on its site:

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

Might be a good reference for some of you having troubles... or a harrowing trip down memory lane for the rest of you.

[IDemo]

1. I thought it was: "Oh, jayzus f%$#'in C@#*$! Nooooo!!"

[Duer 157099]

2. Heh, yeah, that's the sound I associate with a failing drive, lol n/t

[RoyGBiv]

3. I need therapy now ...

<shudder>

Those aren't entirely realistic though. There's no lengthy streams of profanity.

Which reminds me ... I have five hard drives in my system right now and another data drive I swap out. Two of them are about 5 years old.

I need to brush up on my swearing for techies. Nothing seems suspicious yet, but I can feel it coming.

[progressoid]

4. Well it sounds like my Seagate has a seized spindle

WD40? :shrug:

[RoyGBiv]

5. Just throw it against a wall ...

Far more satisfying.

[progressoid]

6. My Dad loaned me his 5 lb sledge hammer.

I may have to use it!

I just sat through most of these guys' videos looking for solutions: http://myharddrivedied.com/presentations/

I have most of the info on this drive backed up so I don't want to pay someone to recover 200 gb of data for the 1 or 2 gb of stuff I forgot to backup.

[hobbit709]

7. You ain't nothing until you've heard an old CDC 300MB

The dishwasher size with the removable platters after the sprinkler system kicked off and rained on it while running.