A month ago, I've added a hard drive from an old computer of a friend and it started to buzz, my solution now is hit it with the IDE cable plastic, but 5 minutes later starts to buzz again.
Hard drive specs:
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
- Certified Repaired HDD
- 250 GB
- IDE interface
It's not the main drive, I store big files on it.
My question is what thing is causing that noise, is no duplicate because the possible questions didn't specify if is a buzz, clicks, or other kind of noises.
And my concern about the label that says "Certified Repaired HDD" and it's durability, I'm sure that this drive have more than 5 years old.
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The most common cause of a buzzing drive is the mounting. Depending on whether this is a laptop or desktop. Certainly this is true of desktops & servers.
You can fix this by getting some plastic washers and adding them between the HDD and the mounting. You can also get dedicated drive noise dampening kits.
Options are more limited in a laptop and I've never come across the same kind of noise there.
If you can run the machine without a cover so you can get to the drive when the machine is active, does the noise stop if you apply light pressure to it? If so, probably a mounting issue. If not and the internals of the drive are making a noise, this is certainly going to be catastrophic at some point since the internal tolerances are so small.
Should you be worried? Not if it is mounting noise though you should still fix it as the last thing you want is movement in the drive mounting. If it is internal, then certainly you should and, as others have commented, you should plan for replacement.
In either case - or indeed any other case - you must always back up your data. No modern drive is "reliable" in an engineering sense, HDD's fail remarkably regularly, SSD's are getting ever more reliable but they certainly fail too. To say nothing of fire, flood and theft.
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