Are Hitachi hard drives noisy?

[John Latter]

Hiya,

I've just bought an Hitachi HDD & its very 'noisy' compared to my old
Seagate - is this just a manufacturing 'quirk'?

BTW Hitachi=7200rpm & Seagate-=5400rpm

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John Latter

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[Stephen B]

Hiya,

I've just bought an Hitachi HDD & its very 'noisy' compared to my old
Seagate - is this just a manufacturing 'quirk'?

BTW Hitachi=7200rpm & Seagate-=5400rpm

In my experience, Hitachi drives are fairly noisy. 7200 RPM drives can also be
noisy compared to a 5400 RPM drive.
-steve

 

[John Latter]

In my experience, Hitachi drives are fairly noisy. 7200 RPM drives can also be
noisy compared to a 5400 RPM drive.
-steve

Thanks Steve - that's rather reassuring!

The Hitachi drive whirs, clunks & sounds generally quite scratchy
whereas I seldom hear the Seagate one at all.

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

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[kony]

Thanks Steve - that's rather reassuring!

The Hitachi drive whirs, clunks & sounds generally quite scratchy
whereas I seldom hear the Seagate one at all.

Reassuring?

If you say so... some people might return it, as there's no
excuse for a modern drive to be noisey, IMO.

 

[John Latter]

Reassuring?

If you say so... some people might return it, as there's no
excuse for a modern drive to be noisey, IMO.

Well it was reassuring...



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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

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[Stephen B]

Well it was reassuring...

Since I reassured you originally, I should clarify that the noise that I was
referring to would not be clunks and scratchy sounds. Whirring is not unusual
and even an infrequent (that would be rare) click or two is not concerning,
Clunking and scratchiness sure sounds like there might be a problem. I would
return it.
-steve

 

[John Latter]

Since I reassured you originally, I should clarify that the noise that I was
referring to would not be clunks and scratchy sounds. Whirring is not unusual
and even an infrequent (that would be rare) click or two is not concerning,
Clunking and scratchiness sure sounds like there might be a problem. I would
return it.
-steve

More or less continuous scratching is the simplest way I can describe
it - thanks for clarifying things Steve!

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
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[General Schvantzkoph]

More or less continuous scratching is the simplest way I can describe
it - thanks for clarifying things Steve!

That sounds bad. All drive manufacturers are using fluid bearing drives
now so they all should be pretty quiet. Any drive that is annoyingly loud
has a problem.

 

[Shep©]

More or less continuous scratching is the simplest way I can describe
it - thanks for clarifying things Steve!

Before you do anything else make sure the drive is in Full UDMA mode
as you may be hearing constant hard drive access due to incorrect
drivers/software settings.The free Small,"Info-tool" configuration Tab
will tell you the state of the DMA on your drives.ALL your drives
should be in the DMA enabled/ON state,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/diag.html
The program can be run from within the .zip file.

HTH

 

[John Latter]

That sounds bad. All drive manufacturers are using fluid bearing drives
now so they all should be pretty quiet. Any drive that is annoyingly loud
has a problem.

I think I'll phone tech support on saturday & let them listen to it
over the phone!

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

 

[John Latter]

Before you do anything else make sure the drive is in Full UDMA mode
as you may be hearing constant hard drive access due to incorrect
drivers/software settings.The free Small,"Info-tool" configuration Tab
will tell you the state of the DMA on your drives.ALL your drives
should be in the DMA enabled/ON state,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/diag.html
The program can be run from within the .zip file.

HTH

Thanks Shep!

I ran the Nero Info Tool and it gives a lot of info about D & E drives
but nothing about C drive except to say that "DMA is on".

Your comments make me wonder if incorrect drivers/software settings
could be connected to a continuous disc access problem I'm having at
the moment - could you spare a moment and read a post (copied below)
that I've posted elsewhere?

About 4 or 5 days ago I changed my hard drive and reinstalled Windows
XP Home. I think the problem described below has been there since day
1 but I only took notice of it yesterday (btw I installed SP2 & McAfee
firewall before connecting to the net).

On Windows Task Manager I currently have 5 instances of svchost.exe
listed and one of them, with a PID number of 956, is continuously
reading & writing to the disc. Today it has so far read 670,000,000
bytes and written about a million less.

From its PID number I've been able to establish that this instance of
svchost is associated with:

956 AudioSrv, CryptSvc, Dhcp, ERSvc,
EventSystem, helpsvc, lanmanserver,
lanmanworkstation, Netman,Nla,RasMan,
Schedule, seclogon,SENS,SharedAccess,
ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv,
Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt,
wscsvc,wuauserv

All this is new to me, if anyone can tell me which of the above may be
causing the problem (I'm a single-user on a single computer), and how
I go about disabling it, I would be very grateful!

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

 

[Shep©]

Thanks Shep!

I ran the Nero Info Tool and it gives a lot of info about D & E drives
but nothing about C drive except to say that "DMA is on".

Your comments make me wonder if incorrect drivers/software settings
could be connected to a continuous disc access problem I'm having at
the moment - could you spare a moment and read a post (copied below)
that I've posted elsewhere?

Big time,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/secure.html

online and off.