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Annoying buzz during main drive activity - drive or case at fault?
I have a 2-year-old Dell Dimension from an old job that I
beefed up with a new SATA board and 2 new Seagate 320GB 7200rpm SATA-2 drives. I sometimes hear a vibration/buzz coming from the case. It's noticable, although not scarily loud. This seems to happen when I'm accessing the main drive. It stops when disk activity is low. I get no disk errors, and diagnostics I ran on both drives come out clean. I'm wondering if this is more likely the drive itself, or the quick-swap mounting system DELL uses... the green plastic rails screwed to the drive, which slide into the bays in a pretty loose fashion. Definitely not as secure as screwing the drives to metal rails in a metal box-style bay. I'm wondering if it's normal drive vibration, but the mounting system allows it to vibrate freely within this assembly. Anyone ever have this problem? I don't want to have to replace the drive, only to find out it were merely the mounting. I suppose I could crack the case and old each drive as I put it through its paces, although the clamshell design of the case (and the pigeonhole my computer fits in) makes this inconvenient. - Tim -- |
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