[Gllug] Life of hard drives

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:03, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Stephen Harker writes:
> 
> >IBM SCSI 10000rpm Hard drives make strange squeeking noises but 
> >apparently that's normal?!
> 
> Only for certain models in the UltraStar range. I have an IC35L018UWD210-0
> that does it. Apparently it's thermal recalibration.
> 
> Tet

I've heard the same thing in both senses - mine only do it when they are
idle, every 30 seconds (but given that there are 4 of them, thats quite
a bit of squeaking).

IBM's marvellous mechanical mouse organ.

Simon

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