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Hard disk making short, low, high-pitched noise semi-regularly

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Mar 15, 20269544 views
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Problem

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my brand new Seagate ST2000DM001(-9YN164) hard drive, if indeed anything. Irregularly, but seemingly every few minutes (every 3-7 minutes now in the time I've been timing it), it makes a short (0.2 seconds tops), fairly high-pitched, two-part sound. It's d…

Error Output

hdparm -S 0 /dev/sda

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Fix for: Hard disk making short, low, high-pitched noise semi-regularly

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If this problem happens fairly regularly, I would take the time to narrow down its cause since this should not take you more than 20 to 30 mins of testing: Does it happen if you leave your computer on the bios screen? If not, then the bootloader + O…

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