harddrive spinning noise

[Anonymous]

my harddrive is about 5 months old(ibm 40gb).. today, it starts to spinning with this loud sharpnoise.. is my harddrive about to die??

[Josetann]

Quick answer...good chance yes.  IBM drives are having a high rate of failure, class action suit against them, etc.  My recommendation is to back up all the critical data, call IBM up and see what they say (if it sounds bad to them, they should send a replacement).

[FrogByte]

josetan is right. I\'ve had 2 IBM drives and both have only lasted a short while before leaving this earth. When my first one started squeeling, I discovered that if I turned it upside down, the noise would go away. Although this stopped the agrivation, it only lasted 2 more months then frozeup. Get your data off it as fast as you can and buy a Maxtor drive. I\'ve had the best of luck with them.

[rdc]

Does this apply to  IBM scsi uw and  u160 too .
I have three scsi IBM drives

[Bowyakka]

I had this problem with a ibm 40 gb hard disk !!!

then it ate sectors from the back of the disk (destroying the webservers partition) then ate the windows partition then while in recovery the work partiton

I have a disk with just linux left http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[rdc]

I have all kinds of ibm scsi disks 2gb 9gb 18 gb never had a problem ,but then my old scsi seagate of 500 mb and my quantum of 4gb are also still functioning .You must have a bit of luck I suppose with all hardware.