[ltp] Noisy hard disk

[Carl Nygard]

I've got a T40 with the 40Meg high speed drive, and I barely hear either
spin or access noise.  It's nice and quiet, and I was very surprised.

However, in my experience, any time you start to hear spin whine, esp if
you haven't heard it before, it's time to get a new HD, because it's
about to die.

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 22:16, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Abhishek Tiwari wrote:
> 
> > i want to know what is your experience with t40. does
> > the hard disk make some sound/a lot of sound/no sound
> > at all on disk access. I just want to know if this is
> > a normal feature of the hard drive in t40s or is it
> > something extraordinary.
> 
> I have a t40 - and I don't really hear the HDD noise. However the
> heat-sink fan makes noticeable noise - whenever it comes up.
> 
> However I used to have a HDD in an older laptop - which made a very
> noticeable hight pitch noise. I did use it for a while (perhaps more
> than a year) - and it didn't fail in my usage.
> 
> Satish
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Carl Nygard <cjnygard@fast.net>