[Gllug] Life of hard drives

[Dermot Moynihan]

At 12:03 07/03/03, you 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.

Damn. I was thinking that sounds like the noise that my Western Digital 
Caviar 40GB 7200RPM  (certainly not a SCSI) makes. I had thought it was on 
the way out, then thought it wasn't and now...
<swears>
<shrugs>

rgds
Dermot

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