-----Original Message----- From: G-List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michelle Klein-Hass Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 07:31 To: G-List Subject: Re: Hard Drive noises
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:59 am, Katzy wrote: > OK, so here's me eating my words... > > Some time in the not-to-distant-past I commented on how my 20 Gig IBM > DeskStar was doing great after 3 years, 2 Macs and several OSes... > > Recently it's taken to squeaking. Yes, squeaking. At random intervals-- > usually involving heavy disk-thrashing-- it kind of goes, > "Click-eep"... Or sometimes, "tok-tok-tok-eep-click". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yeah it is probably time for a new hard drive. I would recommend a Seagate. I have found them to work best for me and their new 5 year warranty on all their drives is the best available. You can get a good deal for them online or through a sale/rebate in stores, but I wouldn't buy hard drives at a retail store's full price. I recently had bad luck with some Maxtors I purchased. I purchased 3 120gb drives over a two month period each and from 2 different places, and I had two of them fail. They had been in use 8-10 months or so and I had my newest one fail, then I think the first one I bought failed about 3 weeks later. These were all in separate computers and one of them was just a storage drive that was rarely accessed (it of course had about 100 gigs of important data on it.) It's failure was fortunately in the circuit board and I was able to switch it out with another board and copy most of the data off. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
