Seagate 7200.12 shaking my HDD tray

[geoc]

I have a seagate 1tb 7200.12, and it is terribly loud and shaky. Every time it does a seek, I can hear it rattle the HDD tray it's mounted on.

I have this mounted in an R3, so it already has grommets placed on where the HDD is mounted on the tray, so now it instead rattles the tray and the tray slot and making this annoying noise.

Are 7200.12 normally this violent in it's operation? What should I do to dampened the rattling?

[kazenagi]

I personally never used this hdd before but if you're 100% sure it is decoupled and vibration dampers and such are installed correctly but the hard drive is still terribly loud, it might be a sign of the hdd failing. Try running benchmarks and tests like HD Tune and see if the results are normal for your drive, hopefully it might just be something loose in your case around that area.

[ilya]

Earlier Fractal cases were notorious for build quality issues. It's supposedly fixed with the newer cases like the R3, but I've seen that they're still prone to shipping damage. Sounds like your drive cage is bent/warped.

Either contact Fractal or go for a true suspension mount. SPCR has some info on suspending your drive.

[Galcobar]

Test it -- take the drive out of the cage and put it on the desk. If it's moving enough to rattle, rather than hum, then you're probably looking at a mechanical failure. A friend went through four 1TB 7200.12 drives because they failed mechanically. Far as I could guess, the platter and spindle were wobbling as they spun. The drives would walk themselves across the desk like a cell phone on vibrate.

Running an error check via SeaTools also threw up error codes. The drives eventually became inaccessible, so I'd look at backing up your data now, then testing.

[geoc]

Thanks for the tips! Funny enough, my hard drive did clunk out several months ago due to a maligned head, and last week it started working again. Maybe I should've said this in my first post

[SugarJ]

Get your data off it and RMA it now. It's about to fail.

[upcoast604]

The 2x1TB seagates I have do make alot of hum vibration noise, just over a yr old now. Is it normal, not really but they're $45 drives once upon a time ago. Duplicate drives are a must for data you don't want to loose regardless of what manufacturer drive you have.

The coffee grinder sound on hdds can be lack of enough power, incase that's also happening.

[geoc]

I was going to RMA the drive, but it started working right when I plugged it back in for diagnostic codes. So far, it's not pulling any codes, and Seagate requires trouble codes before I can RMA.

[geoc]

I just processed the Seagate RMA (it's clicking like mad), I decided to opt for the advanced rma option for 10 bucks.

The package includes: Them mailing you a replacement first, then sending you a box with a prepaid label to send back your defective one.

Since paying for shipping and appropriate packaging supplies will cost me around that much, it looked like a good deal. Do you guys think this is worth it?

[Galcobar]

If you're spending the same amount to get faster results, why not?