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Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100. |
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> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very |
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> basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click |
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> or a metallic type sound. It sounds like the heads are doing random |
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> reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily. Thing is, |
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> there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop. All the |
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> drives should be basically idle. I even went to single user mode to be |
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> sure nothing in KDE was doing some index thingy or something. Still, |
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> nothing showed that there should be any drive activity, including the |
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> hard drive light on the case. |
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> |
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> <<< SNIP >>> |
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> Thoughts? |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Well ain't this interesting. I was about to pull the side off that |
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monster Cooler Master HAF-932 when I moved my router, which sits on top |
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of the case over the top fan. When I moved it, the sound stopped. When |
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I sat it back down, it made that noise again but slightly different. |
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So, I moved the router a little further back. Now all is quiet. No |
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weird noises for the last several minutes now. |
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After finding out about this drive, now I'm nervous about depending on |
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it for a backup. Bad thing is, I've got two of these drives now. |
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Different batches but still. Since firmware seems to have some affect |
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on this, is this a good version to have? |
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Firmware Version: CC25 |
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That's on the new drive. The old drive is: |
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Firmware Version: CC29 |
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Weird, my new drive seems to have older firmware than my old drive. |
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How's that work I wonder? My old drive is a couple years old at least. |
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I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and |
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some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I don't |
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have to buy pacemakers. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |