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by randerson7

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Working in a school district, I have in the past had hard drives start to whine and "ramp up" as to sound like jets taking off. This notably occurs at the opening of an application and startup. This has sometimes been a precursor to HDD failure. Is this common? Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this? There is no rhyme or reason to this. These are the same types of HDD's and in similar machines that are in the same room. Diagnostics show no problems. Any ideas?

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by mjd420nova

I've encountered a few drives that become noisy only when sitting idle with just the wallpaper on the screen. It goes away when any apps are loaded or IE is opened. They showed no faults and checkdisk found no bad sectors. Seems it was just a harmonic vibration when the heads were left over a certain part of the platter. Replaced the drives anyway.

by cmiller5400

We have some SATA HDD's that sound like a cat meowing every now and then.

by older mycroft

Use little rubber grommets between the HDD and the cradle.

On the basis that any noise generated within a HDD will be 'amplified' around the skeletal frame inside a PC. The rubber grommets ISOLATE the vibrations.

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