seagate harddrives

[ziddey]

I have a question about seagate harddrives. I had two: a 7200.7 baracuda 80gb and a 200gb. I had issues with the 80gb where it would make some sounds every few minutes, like it would make some background noise and some clucking. I had the drive in an external enclosure. Then eventually the drive died.

Now, I also have a 200gb seagate that I had in a computer. It has all my important files. I put it in the enclosure after I sold the 80gb and now I'm finding that it makes the same clucking sounds periodically. Is it just how seagates are setup to do? I changed to a different enclosure and it still makes the noise.

Should I be alarmed?

 

[flynlr]

now its just a guess but maybe the temps in the enlosure are too high?

 

[ziddey]

that's what i was thinking but it did it within half a minute on powerup. and in my other enclosure, it's not even really an enclosure the way i have it setup. it's actually a 5.25" enclosure and i have it just open to the environment so the hdd is attached to the oxford chipset and power and that's it.

 

[TheArchitect]

both of my seagate 200GB drives make a periodic seeking noise that you describe. I'm thinking its normal.

 

[ziddey]

it's so strange. it seems to only do that at idle though when i'm not doing anything.

 

[flynlr]

on the other hand my seagates may be making noise but the 3 80mm and 1 120mm and hsf and vid card fan drown out conversations around me so I would never hear it anyway.

 

[_Korruption_]

it's so strange. it seems to only do that at idle though when i'm not doing anything.

The Seagate Sound.

I think it's for diagnostics. Completely normal. Back up your data if you want to, just in case. You should always have a backup handy.