Is this normal?

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I got this drive when I bought new parts since I needed a SATA drive and didn't care to much for space (I store everything externally).


It's not as quiet as I thought it should be for a single platter drive (I presume)... it's got a rather annoying high pitched whine similar to old drives; I can live with it though.


It's definitely faster as my old 120GB Maxtor. I got curious and ran HDtune and got some weird results (to me anyway).

Is this normal for this particular drive?

 

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Doies your other drive do similar?

 

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Doies your other drive do similar?

Dunno, it's not hooked up anymore

 

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Plug it in to check.
If both drives do similar, its down to your Windows.

 

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Ight, heres the other.

It's an older drive so it's on IDE, unlike the Seagate that is on SATA.

 

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Unfortunately that doesnt help.

It could be a number of things:
1) the hard drive is being accessed periodically by software on your PC
2) something is using the same interrupt as the hard drive controller
3) the driver or its configuration has a problem
4) the drive is faulty
5) the hard drive controller is faulty

Unplug any PCI cards and see if the problem improves.
This is in case one is sharing an interrupt with the SATA controller.

Assuming you arent using an onboard SATA RAID controller:
Uninstall the motherboard drivers and reinstall the latest version.
This will update or reset the current SATA driver.

If you are connected to the RAID controller, you might want to try using the other SATA ports.
Alternatively:
Update the motherboard BIOS. RAID functions are presented to the OS by the BIOS.
Update the Windows SATA RAID driver.