harddrive failing?

i bought a new seagate barracuda 80gb harddrive a couple of months ago
in the last couple of weeks ive had the side of my case alot and noticed this drive is makeing alot of noise kind of a grateing sound and when it first boots up a sound like metal hitting metal

i was running a test on pc pitstop and it reports the drive of haveing a transfer rate of 5 megabytes where as systems with the same CPU and clock speed as this one have a speed of 13.01 MB/s

i noticed it makes alot of grateing noise when doing simple stuff like editing images saveing images and sometimes when hiting the back button while online sounds like its haveing a hard time working

could this drive be failing?
this is the first 80gb drive ive used so dont no how much noise if eney these put out

 

I'd get any data you want to keep off that now. It shouldn't be making that much noise if you just bought it a couple months ago. It might be a bad drive, and if so, you might have to get a new one.

As for the transfer rate, what speed is it, and are these other computers running exactly identical drives? For that matter, what are the specs on your CPU?

 

thanks dident think it should be makeing eney noise dident want to contact the company i got it from first incase they tryed saying it was normall

this is the harddrive
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=36369

dont no if the other computers are running the exact same drives its just a thing that it said on the pc pitstop site

my cpu is a p3 450mhz at the moment

 

If ya think HDD is bad Run Seagates Free Diagnostic utility
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2858


Another note your CPU is P3 450mhz, ( Guessing original HDD was ATA33) your mobo probably doesnt support ATA/100 HDD, although your new HDD is backwards compatible, ya just wont get the rated transfer rates.




I'm thinking your drive is fine, just another noisey Seagate, running slower than rated due to older technology MOBO.

 

thanks ille rebuild the system around a new mobo i got sat here tommorow see wot its like then

 

Another noisy Seagate? Hmm... I've got two, and they're both quiet as church mice. One's maybe ten years old, and the other is considerably newer.

 

thats the thing that made me wonder if this was failing ive never seen a noisy seagate

had a 20gb before and never had a sound from it and runin a 10gb now as a second drive with no sound

 

Ive had two Seagates both worked fine, but were the loudest HDD Ive ever owned, two completey different PC's, have to admit they were few yrs old.


Sorry not trying to bash Seagate
On the Plus side,
I have noticed all the new Seagate's have 5yr warranty.

 

I'm the same way about WD drives. I had one, probably the same age as the older Seagate I have now, and it died, so I've been sour on them for a while now.

In any case, if it's still under warranty, I'd see if you can get them to replace the drive for you. They should offer to transfer all the data from the old drive to the new if they will replace it, but I'd grab the important stuff first anyway.