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An answer from Seagate!
Saturday, April 10, 2004 at 3:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Marfan
(3 messages posted)
Here is the answer I recieved from Seagate:
The latest generation of our high-capacity drives have been programmed to perform
regular off-line scans to test the drive's reliability and detect any possible malfunctions
while the drive is still relatively new. These
tests occur during times of system idle and are programmed to end after a certain
number of power-on hours.
Please remember that this is a very large drive spinning at 7200rpm. This is much
faster than the common 5400rpm. In addition, the capacity
increases the possibility for vibration and seek noise because of the amount of
data being read so quickly. Higher performance always brings about more noise/vibration.
Our drive is still the most silent for its
size and performance.
If you are disturbed by the amount of noise produced, you can run our SeaTools Desktop
Edition to check the physical integrity of the drive:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
If you have any other questions, please contact us.
Regards,
Seagate Technical Support
===== Customer's original message ======
The hard drive constanly whirrs, even in BIOS. It whirrs for 1 minute then rests
for 4. The whirring can be temporarily stopped by causing some kind of disk access
(opening a file), but will resume 4 minutes later.
The HD is split into a 120GB and 80GB partitions, formatted with NTFS.
I doubt it is WinXP related because the HD whirrs even if I am in BIOS or if I boot
from a CD.
I have tried scanning the HD for errors, disabling virtual memory, closing all WinXP
services, unplugging the network cable, disabling XP prefetching, disabling XP file
protection, disabling WinXP dll caching.
No luck.
Operating system : Windows XP
CPU and Speed : P4 3.06GHz
ATA Controller : MS Default Controller v5.1.2600.0
Other ATA Devices : Iomega DVD-R on Secondary IDE (Seagate HD is only device on
primary)
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