Hard drive hiss?

[Aaron2004]

Hey guys,

 

I have a 500GB Samsung that is causing me some troubles. It is usually very silent until I render or compress video...then it hisses. It hisses through the whole render or compression. If it's done rendering, it will be silent, but hisses when I scroll on a webpage or load a large file. If I play a movie or record a movie, with my tuner card, it's completely silent. Does anybody have any idea what's happening?

 

I have gotten warnings to watch out because it will probably die on me soon, but it's been doing this for the past 6 months. Oh...I also can't defragment.

 

I kind of have a feeling that the only way to fix this is just to get a new drive...I was just curious if anybody else has been in my shoes.

 

Aaron

[Paul Twyman]

Hey,

 

How much space is left on it? Is there enough room for it to defrag?(sorry if that's a stupid question)

 

If it's making noise when you render I'm guessing you have your paging file on there too. I've had a disc that wouldn't defrag beacuse the paging file was to fragmented. You could maybe try getting rid of the paging file temporarily (in your performance options) resetting your machine and then re set your paging file to whatever you want. This will clean out the old paging file and create a new one. Ideally defrag before creating the new paging file so that it's created on a nice free bit of disc.

This worked for me then, hopefully it might help.

Please back everything up before trying any of this though.

[Aaron2004]

Well, OK...I figured it out.

 

I incorrectly diagnosed a bad hard drive just because I was also have problems defragging. I thought they were connected some how. It's actually the copper coils on my motherboard. I guess it's a fairly typical problem. As far as I know there's no way to fix this. Somebody mentioned pouring resin on them, but that sounds way too risky.

 

I never knew that non-mechanical parts could still make noise. Go figure.

 

 

Aaron

[conrad8]

I'm too late but that would have been my first suggestion.

 

I've had 2 motherboards in the past make that hiss / squeal like sound.

 

When on load and when scrolling through webpages - quite annoying really.

[Matt Sugden]

well mate I'd be very cautious. two days ago my 500gb Samsung went *poof* on me, taking with it two other hard drives which actually set on fire!!

 

I don't think I've ever moved for the power switch so fast in my life before!!

 

it may not be the fault of the samsung, but all I know is that collectively I have lost over a terabyte of data.

 

just glad I have quite a few back ups of various stuff, but you're never completely covered are you?