Wednesday, February 9, 2011

What sounds are faulty hard drives?

Want to know if your hard drive to a problem simply by ear? It may be possible. Data Center, a company specializing in data recovery, has a page referencing the sound of a hard drive when he has a problem. And according to the noise and make of hard disk, it is possible to identify - with varying degrees of accuracy - the kind of failure.

Indeed, a record that has a problem of heads does not make the same noise as a hard disk with bearings in poor condition, for example. Disks Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, Hitachi GST, IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Quantum are the party and even if not totally reliable, able to say "I know the problem" to your uncle / neighbor / friend / brother (delete as appropriate) just by hearing the hard drive is always impresses.

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