Hard Drive making a scratching sound

[BlakkIce]

i just got a new Maxtor 120gig and i got everything installed and it is making a scratching sound when there is disk activity, its not a click of death, should i take the drive back or is it no big deal

 

[egale]

I would run Maxtor's utility against it to make sure it is ok. Clicking and popping and chatter is normal but scratching doesn't sound good to me.

 

[Curley]

If it is the one that was 100gb +20gb at BestBuy, RMA it. I had a 4 out of 10 go bad with the scratching noise. You can write 0s to the drive and it will work fine for a while, but the second time it crashes on you, it is twice as hard to recover your data.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: egale
I would run Maxtor's utility against it to make sure it is ok. Clicking and popping and chatter is normal but scratching doesn't sound good to me.

have an IBM that's just "normal" for you

 

[mbackof]

Stratching is bad for hard drives. I would RMA it now.

 

[InlineFive]

I would RMA that drive. My two Maxtor DiamondMax 9's only make clicking noises when they arn't being drowned out by household noise.

 

[BlakkIce]

thanks guys im going to take it back to office depot today, this is my second one the first one died and wouldnt spin up now this one scratches hope the third one is better i need to send in my rebate and i cant till i get a working drive and i can take the upc off the box

 

[Fern]

I got one late last week at Best Buy -WD 120gig w/8MB cache. It made the scratching noise for first day or two then quieted down? But you guys are worrying me!

 

[Trianon]

Had the same on IBM/Hitachi drive, some data would not read after a while, had to RMA to Hitachi...

 

[arcenite]

Hard Drive making a scratching sound

Maybe it has an itch?

Bill

 

[BlakkIce]

i took it back and now it is as quiet as a spinning mouse hopefully this will last

 

[StraightPipe]

thats one reason I havent bought a maxtor in about 5 years, i had 2 die in a row, switched entirely to WD's and no problems or noises.