Hard Drive Death?
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- EskyBeginner
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My Seagate Cuda 1Tb with firmware SD15 decided to stop working last night. It's only 2 years old, and hasn't had a whole lot of work. It's in my home pc as a storage drive, but I do stream music and video off it occasionally.
It wasn't having any problems, and then WHAM. There she blows!
Firstly, I booted my computer and wondered "What is that noise?"
I sounded like a cooling fan was starting and stopping, or maybe the CD drive was "pulsing".
Secondly, I checked all the connections, and still no good.
Thirdly, I pulled the HDD out and put it up to another PSU (in case my PSU was dying) and it was the same.
I can feel a constant slight vibration (I am assuming this is the platter spinning at 7200rpm), and then there is a heavier vibration that causes the "noise" (I assume the head or actuator motor making it). The noise is not a sharp "tapping" like the head is slamming against the stops, nor a "grinding" like the head is contacting the platter. It's a slight noise sort of like when a 3.5" floppy disc starts to read (just after the metal shutter gets opened by the drive mechanism).
The only thing I can think of to further diagnose the problem is finding another working Cuda with the same firmware, and swap PCB's.
I'm not prepared to spend $500 and more to get the data recovered.
Anybody have a clue as to what this might be?
It wasn't having any problems, and then WHAM. There she blows!
Firstly, I booted my computer and wondered "What is that noise?"
I sounded like a cooling fan was starting and stopping, or maybe the CD drive was "pulsing".
Secondly, I checked all the connections, and still no good.
Thirdly, I pulled the HDD out and put it up to another PSU (in case my PSU was dying) and it was the same.
I can feel a constant slight vibration (I am assuming this is the platter spinning at 7200rpm), and then there is a heavier vibration that causes the "noise" (I assume the head or actuator motor making it). The noise is not a sharp "tapping" like the head is slamming against the stops, nor a "grinding" like the head is contacting the platter. It's a slight noise sort of like when a 3.5" floppy disc starts to read (just after the metal shutter gets opened by the drive mechanism).
The only thing I can think of to further diagnose the problem is finding another working Cuda with the same firmware, and swap PCB's.
I'm not prepared to spend $500 and more to get the data recovered.
Anybody have a clue as to what this might be?
- mike90t09Novice
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You have the hard drive click of death. It is a major malfunction and you are going to need a new hard drive.
Basically if you want your data you need to recover it or else you are going to have to start clean.
Basically if you want your data you need to recover it or else you are going to have to start clean.

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