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Noisy hard drive

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  • 24-07-2008 12:18pm
    #1
    golden
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    I have a 4 year old dell dimension 5000 with a noisy hard drive.
    Im looking for advice, do I buy new pc or new hard drive ?


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    #2
    Anti
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    If the pc's performance is fine for what you do with it then there is no point replacing the whole thing. Just a new hard drive will do you.

    But before you go ordering find out if your pc can support sata and pata or just tge older pata standard. And as for silence, all of the new hard drivers are very quiet. I personally find the samsung spinpoint drives to be great.


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    golden
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    How do i find out if its sata or pata?
    It also seems like the fan goes into over drive and pc runs slow as a result.


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    Feelgood
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    golden wrote: »
    How do i find out if its sata or pata?
    It also seems like the fan goes into over drive and pc runs slow as a result.

    Try doing a full defragment on the drive and see if it quietens down a smidgen.


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    #5
    golden
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    I've done the defragment , not much difference.

    This is the report that came back , I haven't a clue what it all means.

    Volume (C:)
    Volume size = 146 GB
    Cluster size = 4 KB
    Used space = 37.05 GB
    Free space = 109 GB
    Percent free space = 74 %

    Volume fragmentation
    Total fragmentation = 0 %
    File fragmentation = 0 %
    Free space fragmentation = 0 %

    File fragmentation
    Total files = 100,966
    Average file size = 550 KB
    Total fragmented files = 12
    Total excess fragments = 26
    Average fragments per file = 1.00

    Pagefile fragmentation
    Pagefile size = 768 MB
    Total fragments = 1

    Folder fragmentation
    Total folders = 8,781
    Fragmented folders = 1
    Excess folder fragments = 0

    Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
    Total MFT size = 117 MB
    MFT record count = 110,253
    Percent MFT in use = 92 %
    Total MFT fragments = 5


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    #6
    Feelgood
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    golden wrote: »
    I've done the defragment , not much difference.

    This is the report that came back , I haven't a clue what it all means.

    Yeah that actually looks fine. In theory if the disk is defragmented properly it shouldn't be doing aggressive read and writes so hence it should quieten it down a good bit.

    Does it sound kindof like an airplane engine or is there more of a clicking noise with it??


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    golden
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    It sounds like its ready for take off and then there is the clicking too.


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    Anti
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    golden wrote: »
    It sounds like its ready for take off and then there is the clicking too.


    Thats one of the signs of a dying drive. Backup yoru data as soon as possible.


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