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12-Nov-2008, 05:51 PM #1
The Different Sounds of a Hard Drive Failing
This may be of help for diagnosing those hearing 'strange' noises from their computers:

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
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12-Nov-2008, 08:35 PM #2
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Originally Posted by Stoner View Post
This may be of help for diagnosing those hearing 'strange' noises from their computers:

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
Well, it's not of much help.
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12-Nov-2008, 08:55 PM #4
click of death indeed.
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12-Nov-2008, 09:33 PM #5
That link is definitely broken now

Here's the cashed link......but any links there also go to a 403 Forbidden page.
http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:...lnk&cd=2&gl=us

The service was posted at Slashdot
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...04220&from=rss
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13-Nov-2008, 06:19 AM #6
This page has received more than a million hits in one single day. We had to remove it as a temporary measure.
Please come back later.

But Stoner the cached link works.
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13-Nov-2008, 07:16 AM #7
Morning Hewee

The cashed link I put up originally went to the list of sounds, but those links were broken.

I see it now goes to an explanation of why they're having trouble.

Maybe in a couple days the original link will go back to those sounds.
I did get to listen to several of them
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13-Nov-2008, 01:04 PM #8
The link seems to be working for now:

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
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13-Nov-2008, 02:20 PM #9
Helpful site... Thanks Stoner!
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Stoner the sites is working again like you said.

Yea a million hits at the site was to much for them yesterday.
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