NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Dell Forums › Dell Business (Vostro, Latitude, Precision) › Seagate Momentus 60GB 7200rpm clicking normal? Click...click.....*going crazy*
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Seagate Momentus 60GB 7200rpm clicking normal? Click...click.....*going crazy*

post #1 of 37
7/4/06 at 7:01pm
Thread Starter 
So the 60GB Seagate Momentus 7200rpm drive is making nasty clicking sounds. This is a new drive in my new M1210. I've started noticing it just today. I've never particularly liked the sound this drive makes, but today it's REALLY annoying. Silent one second, CLICK the next. CLICK. AGH!

Is this normal? My Hitachi 7K100 100GB doesn't sound this awful. I even turned the thing to quiet in the CHC (very quiet now) but it still does these sporadic CLICK sounds which make me want to shove my head in a blender.

Any thoughts on this?
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 37
7/4/06 at 7:56pm
I know the exact noise your talking about my E1505 80 GB 5400 RPM stock from dell does this from time to time sooo annoying makes me want to just walk away from the damn thing.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 37
7/4/06 at 7:58pm
Thread Starter 
I'm sure it's a Seagate in your laptop. Gawd. Everyone touts Seagate as the bees knees, but honestly, the sound they make drives me nuts. I'm trying to get a Hitachi from Dell as a replacement. Otherwise, I'm buying a Hitachi and flogging this thing on ebay.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 37
7/4/06 at 9:47pm
I have a seagate 100GB 5400RPM drive in my current laptop(haven't got my m1210 yet) and it's as silent as any hard drive i've ever heard.

I would hope that yours is simply a defective drive. Plus I think some other M1210 buyers mentioned that their drives weren't making noise.

Also, the last 3.5'' desktop drive I bought(seagate also) made those chirping/clicking sounds, I got it replaced and the problem was gone.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 37
7/5/06 at 3:07am
Maybe check the BIOS and see if there's an option for the Harddrive acoustic mode. I've never played around with the Harddrive performance option so maybe do a search for that BIOS option before playing with that setting.
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 37
7/5/06 at 4:39am
Thread Starter 
I set the acoustic level in Notebook Hardware Control, and it's very quiet now, but still has the awful clicks randomly.
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 37
7/5/06 at 1:18pm
Thread Starter 
So I spoke to tech support and they're sending me a new hard drive. I requested a Hitachi drive, but not sure what I'm being sent. This is the drive:

11KN228Service Kit,Hard Drive,60GB 7.2K,Dell Media Direct,M1210


Any ideas? I'm praying it's a Hitachi, but the tech couldn't guarantee it.
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 37
7/5/06 at 2:19pm
lol my harddrive light blinks ever so often but i don't hear any clicking thingies lol.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 37
7/5/06 at 5:45pm
I seem to recall reading a thread with a similar problem. The guy booted up a linux live cd and changed powersaving modes with hdparm. It fixed his problem.
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 37
7/5/06 at 5:48pm
yeah i remember theres a fix somewhere...search
Reply
Reply
post #11 of 37
7/5/06 at 6:12pm
Hitachi also makes a "feature tool" that allows some disk setting changes. When I used it on my 1210 to recover the space used by the HPA some of the settings were not changeable but some where, maybe you can change the power settings from there. It's a small download and would be a quick way to check it out.
Reply
Reply
post #12 of 37
7/5/06 at 8:12pm
i've heard that the seagate 7200.1 is quieter than the hitachi 7k100 so i don't know if the hitachi will make a difference...
Reply
Reply
post #13 of 37
7/5/06 at 8:41pm
Thread Starter 
Well since I have a Seagate in this M1210, and a 7k100 Hitachi in my XPS 17", I can say quite safely the Hitachi doesn't sound as awful as this.

Hopefully the new drive will be better. It's very possible my current Seagate drive is a little...screwy.
Reply
Reply
post #14 of 37
7/6/06 at 9:39pm
Thread Starter 
Oooh, my first service request got cancelled (for no apparent reason).
I spoke to Dell and now they're sending me this:

11MJ791Subassembly,Hard Drive,80G 7.2,Moraga Plus - Sata,M1210

W00t! looks like a free upgrade to an 80GB 7200rpm HITACHI!!!w00t! (Moraga is the Hitachi).

Now please don't get cancelled!
Reply
Reply
post #15 of 37
7/6/06 at 10:45pm
lol interesting..
Reply
Reply
post #16 of 37
7/6/06 at 10:49pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by roro
lol interesting..
And congrats...
Reply
Reply
post #17 of 37
7/6/06 at 11:38pm
got a seagate 5400.2 60gb sata in my macbook, no clicks.

i had a hitachi originally in the i6000, clicked like that, was replaced with 3 toshibas, and finally a fujitsu thats nice a quiet.
Reply
Reply
post #18 of 37
7/7/06 at 2:41pm
Thread Starter 
Wow, the drive showed up at my house today already. That was quick. It says refurbished, but it's a Hitachi 80GB 7200rpm manufactured in June 2006. I betcha it's not refurbished.
Reply
Reply
post #19 of 37
7/7/06 at 4:05pm
Congrats again.
Reply
Reply
post #20 of 37
7/7/06 at 7:40pm
they have to mark them refurbs because they are open hardware. thats what 5 techs have told me over the years.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Dell Forums › Dell Business (Vostro, Latitude, Precision) › Seagate Momentus 60GB 7200rpm clicking normal? Click...click.....*going crazy*