Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Noisy 7200 hard drive (is this normal)?

Status
Not open for further replies.
edmund1978

edmund1978

Programmer
Jan 25, 2001
58
GB
I've been using a 30GB 5400 rpm Maxtor drive for some time and am used to its near silent operation. I purchased a Maxtor 60GB 7200 rpm drive and it is considerably noisier than the older drive. Is this normal due to the higher speed or is there likely to be a fault with the drive.

Thanks
Edmund
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
I have never noticed any significant noise difference from one to the other. What kind of noise is it?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

spiegela
  • Locked
  • Question
Unallocated space on hard/ssd Drive
Replies
3
Views
252
spiegela
spiegela
ZEEEst
  • Locked
  • Question
Problem with the hard drive
Replies
2
Views
177
pmonett
pmonett
gamer87
  • Locked
  • Question
doubt store hard disk
Replies
0
Views
453
gamer87
gamer87
pmonett
  • Locked
  • Question
Why does a 4TB SSD format to a 2TB drive ?
Replies
2
Views
358
Rick998
Rick998
TomMannPhoto
  • Locked
  • Question
Drives disappear after adding new drive
Replies
1
Views
214
goombawaho
goombawaho

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top