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Hey guys,
hopefully this is the right forum to post this as I don't see anything specific to HDD's. I bought a Seagate 500GB 2.5" 7200.4rpm drive for my laptop a couple of months back, about 3 weeks ago while the drive would spinup from being idle I'd get a click and a high pitched beep. I know from past experiences that a click would usually mean that the drive is going so I imaged the drive and RMA'd it. The new HDD right out of the box continued to do the click and high pitched beep. Is this normal? I had to pay for an Advanced Swap to avoid downtime and I'd hate to have to pay again if that's the case. I checked the Seagate forums and the only problem I see listed for my drive got one response with some saying they had the same problem and then there was a large thread about this problem on the drives that have thte G sensor.
I'm currently on hold waiting for Seagate techs to pick up for the phone and have been for the better part of the hour.
Has anyone had this problem or something similar? is it normal? I'd appreciate any help.
hopefully this is the right forum to post this as I don't see anything specific to HDD's. I bought a Seagate 500GB 2.5" 7200.4rpm drive for my laptop a couple of months back, about 3 weeks ago while the drive would spinup from being idle I'd get a click and a high pitched beep. I know from past experiences that a click would usually mean that the drive is going so I imaged the drive and RMA'd it. The new HDD right out of the box continued to do the click and high pitched beep. Is this normal? I had to pay for an Advanced Swap to avoid downtime and I'd hate to have to pay again if that's the case. I checked the Seagate forums and the only problem I see listed for my drive got one response with some saying they had the same problem and then there was a large thread about this problem on the drives that have thte G sensor.
I'm currently on hold waiting for Seagate techs to pick up for the phone and have been for the better part of the hour.
Has anyone had this problem or something similar? is it normal? I'd appreciate any help.