anyone want a chirping...

[billygoat333]

750 GB Samsung drive? you can have it. It might make a nice a paperweight.

[x88x]

It's not still under warranty by any chance is it?

[billygoat333]

Ooooh... actually I haven't checked! good call. I am just pissed because I was using it as my storage drive, and it had all my music, pictures and movies on it. I hadn't transfered the files to my 2tb drive yet. :(

[Spawn-Inc]

if you mail it here, i can surely send some bullets through it for all the pain it's caused you :)

[SXRguyinMA]

http://lifehacker.com/#!5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux

[PauL]

http://lifehacker.com/#!5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux

Interesting. I'll have to give that a go if one of my HDDs ever fails.

[Konrad]

Sounds like a good opportunity to make a custom fan ... 7200rpm high-reliability super-quiet precision motor plus a bunch of shiny balanced metallic discs which you might be able to cut and twist into fan blades ...

Why's it chirping anyhow? Impact/fall damage? Unauthorized voltage mod?

[billygoat333]

The weirdest thing. It just stopped showing up in the bios and makes random chirping noises. I wonder if its just stuck?

[Snowman]

if you mail it here, i can surely send some bullets through it for all the pain it's caused you :)

I could do the same without a trip through customs:lick:

[Konrad]

lol, I assume of course that you've confirmed the problem isn't caused by cables/connectors, you've moved the drive into other machines, tried it with another working mobo/PSU etc, that the problem doesn't occur with other drives plugged into the same slot ...

My guess is some kind of mechanical issue, misaligned bearings/balance or something.

But I've seen (well, heard) steppers and servos "chirp" and stutter before when they're controlled by bad electronics ... typically bad firmware, sometimes a bad (cheap) H-bridge controller ... dunno if HDDs actually use H-bridges, lol ... so I'd say you have a slim chance in hell of "fixing" it by flashing the firmware. Or even swapping in the logic board from another identical drive (that's something I've done before, as part of a drive password hacking experiment, board and drive worked but the attempted security hack failed).

[AmEv]

So, grab an identical model HDD, swap controller boards, see if that does anything?
(is that right?)

[Konrad]

That's right. Backup all sensitive data from the donour drive, of course, just in case. Chances of data recovery from the chirping drive can't get worse, right? No magnetic screwdriver heads, of course.

Drive make, model, firmware, etc must be identical to ensure greatest chance of success. If it turns out to be a controller board failure then you can actually replace the whole board (can be purchased separately) ... though to be honest, it'd probably cost you less to just by a new 1TB drive, unless you can salvage from a dead HDD which suffered other (mechanical or media/platter) failure.