Hard Drives - Toasted? - Topic

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Oct 18 2017 08:10am

Hey guys,
So I recently did a build for a guy and he gave me two hard drives to include.
Both 2 TB Hitachi.

Well for some reason both make this same exact noise and I can't get them read in windows.
The noise is constant and happens shortly after powering up.
Here's a video of the noise

Now they appear broken but since both are doing the same thing and they appeared new, I'm just questioning it a little before I reach out to guy.
Are they broken or have I run into some weird new problem that I've never dealt with before after installing my 237th hard drive?

This post was edited by Rapture on Oct 18 2017 08:19am

nexcoor

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Oct 18 2017 08:16am

Sounds very, very much like a broken HDD.

yupitsmeh

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Oct 18 2017 08:28am

run crystal mark

and does sound more like clicking than the accessing/search noise some make

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King Atrhur

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Oct 18 2017 09:00am

The drives are broken without a doubt.
Somethings wrong with the head it sounds like.

Ghot

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Oct 18 2017 09:03am

There's an old saying in the comp world...

Hitachi Deathstars

Rapture

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Oct 18 2017 09:30am

I ran HD sentinel and crystal with no good results.
Eventually one of the drives does stop making the noise and becomes visible in windows, but its inaccessible when formatting in mbr and not compatible when gpt so I'm gonna deliver the bad news.
Thanks for the confirm guys.

This post was edited by Rapture on Oct 18 2017 09:31am

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Oct 18 2017 11:14am

Btw, I wasn't kidding. Google: Hitachi Deathstar.

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