Noisy Raptor

liquidfluidity

liquidfluidity

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Not sure if this is the place to post this but here it goes. My 37gb Raptor has been making kind of a grinding noise for quite a while and I'm deciding if I should RMA it. It sounds like the old school drives when they are searching. Is this common for these drives or should I send it in? I've ran a couple of tests on it and all is pretty much good. There were a couple of degradations but only 2-3%. What do you guys think?
 
liquidfluidity said:
Not sure if this is the place to post this but here it goes. My 37gb Raptor has been making kind of a grinding noise for quite a while and I'm deciding if I should RMA it. It sounds like the old school drives when they are searching. Is this common for these drives or should I send it in? I've ran a couple of tests on it and all is pretty much good. There were a couple of degradations but only 2-3%. What do you guys think?
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are you saying it use to be quieter... And now it started making a grinding noise?

Cuz raptors are kinda noisy.. (except for the velociraptors) :)
 
Ok - just checking. It's kind of hard to say whether or not it's a new noise as this drive has been in 3 different cases and I'm sure that the acoustics were different in each case. The case I'm using now - Rocketfish - is all aluminum and kind of "loud" so maybe I'm just noticing it more. I want to be sure as I think I only have about a year and a half left on the warranty.
 
yeah my raptor is noisy when busy, particuly when accessing fragmented files and lots of head movement going on.

Considering replacing it with one of those new RE3 enterprise drives or a samsung F1.

My raptor is a 36gig model and actually gets beaten by those 2 drives but they still lose on random access speeds.
 
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