Hot Seagate Drive?

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Jakalwarrior

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I bought a 7200.10 500gb hard drive and it has always sort of had issues. It occasionally goes tap and sounds like the read head hit the side or something... that scary sound... But it has done this since it was new. It doesn't appear to interrupt operation. It also gets hot and then dissappears both in bios and in windows. My case runs open and has a rather large fan blowing in to it! The drives dont get a "lot" of flow but my raptor is cool to the touch. Meanwhile the seagate 2 slots above it is toasty.

Should I just RMA this sucker or is this just what they do? It is maybe 4 or 5 months old at the most. It was like 65 bucks new.
 
I work with a lot of Seagate drives on a daily basis. I don't think I've ever heard one make an abnormal click upon poweron. However, I'm in the datacenter environment, so it's not exactly easy to hear.

As for heat, from what I've seen, the hottest drives usually fail tests and must be RMAd.
 
Go to the Seagate web page and download Seatools. See if that finds anything wrong with your drive. You can also try HD Tune, which will also tell you the temperature of the drive.

Note that it's perfectly fine for a hard drive to run a bit warm; I generally consider ~40C to be the normal operating temp. So long as your drives aren't extremely hot then I'm guessing that your problems are not heat related.
 
The tick sound is during heavy usage. Say I load a game up thats on that drive. I hear the normal grunt and grind then a TICK, no sound for a few seconds, and back to the grind. I'm not sure if it actually has heat issues, I just assumed so since usually when it dies on me I can shut it down for a few seconds and it is still gone, but if I turn it off for a few minutes and let the fan cool it down it works again. I did have a small portion of it in raid 0 with my raptor but after dropping out a few times the array was screwed. It rarely drops out outside of raid though (so I thought the controller was just bad? on a new mobo now though). The first time it's done it in a while was last night playing FO3 when I had my fan set on low in a warmish room. I crashed after loading a zone, I restarted, crashed in game again, repeated again. Each time took longer and longer to recognize the drive on boot. After that it was absent until I let it sit a while. My raptor meanwhile was cool to the touch and like I said it does have airflow, just not a lot. Probably about as much a 500rpm 80mm fan blowing over it.

I will read the S.M.A.R.T records when im home though, I forgot about that!
 
All of my Seagates run hot (hotter than my Maxtor or WD drives), they also tend to sound like a rockslide when accessed. My 7200.9 500g and 7200.10 750g are the worst of the bunch. Never had any errors or drive failures (knock on internet-wood).

 
Yes, DL HD Tune and check out the temps/SMART values.
SpeedFan should also tell you the HD temp and SMART values.
 
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