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5672 Owners - Hard Drive noise, normal or not?

post #1 of 10
2/24/06 at 5:38pm
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OK, well, I had my Aspire 5672 replaced due to random crashing, and the new unit seems to be rock stable.

The only thing that is still worrying me is the hard drive noise that was on the first laptop as well.

Two laptops with a defective hard drive in a row? Coincidence? Unlikely. But this is worrying me.

The best way to describe the abnormal noise is light metal-like clicking sound. It occurs almost randomly, and never when the hard drive is in use (when it is grinding away as its normal noise). This sound is only slightly more loud than the normal hard drive noise and can only be heard without putting your ear on the laptop, only if the room is totally quiet with zero external noise (quiet so you can hear yourself breathe).

While the noise is random, the one time when that click occurs for sure is when the laptop is turned off (or put into standby/hibernation), just before the platters spin down.

SpeedFan reports hard drive fitness at 98%-100%.

Somebody please help me out here, I am having hard time sleeping again
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post #2 of 10
2/24/06 at 7:46pm
sure it's not the dvd drive? it makes a clunking noise.

my hard drive is very quiet.
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post #3 of 10
2/24/06 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by PorschePRH
sure it's not the dvd drive? it makes a clunking noise.

my hard drive is very quiet.

That's what I thought at first. So then I disabled the DVD drive all together. It is coming from the hard drive for sure. As I said my hard drive is very quiet too, but put your ear to it and see if you can hear a distinct noise (aside from the good old grinding noise).
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post #4 of 10
2/25/06 at 5:35pm
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I am shoked, the hard drive turns out to be a Seagate. I never ever heard anything bad about Seagate.

Anyway, if somebody else has experience with this specific hard drive (Seagate 100GB 2.5" SATA 5400RPM 8MB) let me know.
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post #5 of 10
2/25/06 at 10:54pm
I get an odd noise once in a while. It is like a metal ball dropping onto the floor or something. I think it is coming from my optical drive, and I think it is the disk grabber dropping down. I have only noticed this sound after the optical drive has stopped using a disc and is spinning down.
I might be wrong, but I have a similar strange noise. Maybe I will remove the optical drive to see.

--K1tty
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post #6 of 10
2/26/06 at 2:44am
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Originally Posted by mobilewannabe
I am shoked, the hard drive turns out to be a Seagate. I never ever heard anything bad about Seagate.

Anyway, if somebody else has experience with this specific hard drive (Seagate 100GB 2.5" SATA 5400RPM 8MB) let me know.

I have the 120gb. I don't know if it is a Seagate or not.
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post #7 of 10
2/26/06 at 3:04am
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Originally Posted by PorschePRH
I have the 120gb. I don't know if it is a Seagate or not.
Go to the device manager, and look under disk drives. It should show the model number right away (should start with ST for Seagate Technology). Type that model in Google, and you should come up with Seagate.
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post #8 of 10
2/26/06 at 12:03pm
actually mine is clicking too, I thought this was normal?!
( I have the 80gb version)
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post #9 of 10
2/26/06 at 3:46pm
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Originally Posted by dio6
actually mine is clicking too, I thought this was normal?!
( I have the 80gb version)
Is this the Seagate as well? I suggest you call Acer tech and let them know. According to them I am the first one to complain. Time to prove them wrong.
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post #10 of 10
2/26/06 at 3:59pm
no this seems to be a hitachi. My clicking is a very silent 'grinding' on an irregular basis, but not when there is no action on the laptop.
I checked it with another laptop ( a medion) and this had it also, but a little more silent and and even more clicks per minute/ on a more regular basis.
Even my external hard disk seems to make some ticking/clicking now and then.
So that's why I thought it was normal. I also only hear it when I really focus on it. The fan of my desktop pc makes so much noise that this 5672 is really silent compared to it.

But maybe I should compare it with another 5672 to have a reference.

edit:
actually I just noticed that with every 'grind' ( or click or whatevr I should call it), the 'hard drive led' lits up.
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