Noisy Maxtor, Replace?

[Tsitar]

Hi all,
My Maxtor 6 LO40J2 40 gigb 7200, has started to make like a continous tingle noise, quite disturbing.
It works fine, but too noisy.

Is this normal?

I plan to replace it, I've got an NF7 2.0 so I would go for a SATA hard disk.
Right know, which is/are the fastest (and not noisy) SATA drives to buy?

Thanks

 

[CrimandEvil]

Sounds like your drives going to go
Seagate 120GB SATA ST3120026AS- $104 shipped

 

[Foxcow]

how good are those drives? I think Im going to buy... Ive never heard anything really bad or good about Seagate.

 

[CrimandEvil]

Seagate hasn't been know for performance level drives, mostly just for the silence, but the new series is really good. My friend has two 80 SATAs in a RAID and the performance seems top notch. I'm going to get either a 80 or 120 gig SATA once I upgrade my board.
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200306/20030615ST3160023A_1.html

 

[OPUS1]

Did you try enabling smart drive?
I think maxtor has a utility to check the drives health.

 

[wipeout833]

Here is there tool to test hard drive

Maxtor Tool

 

[Foxcow]

Originally posted by wipeout833
Here is there tool to test hard drive

Maxtor Tool

I was just about to ask for that. Thank you!

 

[CrimandEvil]

You could also use this tool: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

 

[Tsitar]

This last one is from HITACHI.
I'll rather use this one since Powermax will not work on Nvidia based chipsets (as Maxtor states in the utility page).

Thanx