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Well, I'll probably loose another now that I got the drive fixed!

System was on running maybe 24 hours doing nothing but sitting there. Suddenly I got a loud BUZZZ sound coming from it. Enough to make me jump way over here at the other system!
Woke up a sleeping person also!

I hope a bug flew into a fan or something simple, I don't know though, never heard anything like that before! I have heard wires touch a fan, this was different and I looked for wires and don't that anywhere yet.

I shut the system down and it kinda sounded like a spin down on the buzz, could not really tell, though it seemed to be there a few seconds after system should have been off.

Really good and expensive P/S in it, that would be the only place for a fan I could not see off hand.

Well at least I got the 300 gig drive in it working again anyway after fixing the partition.

It could just be a fan going bad. I've had fans make horrendous noises when they go.

Well I had not used the system much for awhile here. I took it over to the other house a few days ago. Got it all setup and running nice all was fine.

Whiiiiiinnnnn, scraaapppeee, whhhiiiineeee

GAGH, sounds like bad breaks, like metal on metal. When it does not sound like that it sounds like a beehive bbuuuuzzzzzz!!!!
At times I swear it sound like a dry wheel bearing on a car driving 80MPH screeeeaach.
Sometime it must run deep because it runs silent!

Well I thought it might be a drive, fans seemed fine. Grrr... only does it when the one drive is connected, disconnect the drive and all is fine and silent. Connect drive get the noises. Did it several times, it's the drive!

I can't feel anything wrong with the drive touching it, I would think I should especially when it is buzzing.

I quickly copied about 75gig of data to another drive expecting a failure, nope still fine. I copied about 90gigs of movies to another drive expecting the drive to die, nope still fine.

How can a drive make so much noise and still read and write data without errors or transfer over 160gigs almost steady and not burnout??

It sounds like a spinning metal on metal scraping at times like disk brakes hitting the rivets, other times like a scraping bearing, but yet it works perfectly fine far as I can tell. I open big files, save big files, open saved files. Everything works.
I almost needed ear plugs to use the computer but never a problem all night long for hours and hours. Was playing music (trying to drowned out the drive sounds) and making 3d images and big heavy renders etc...

I guess I will try to find the old warauntee info and RMA it. I did am RMA once and this refurb they sent does not have the dates on it! Was 2010 something I remember on the original drive. It's Maxtor which I guess Seagate bought, do they still own Maxtor??

just an idea here... not sure if this would be worth it to you but here goes...

copy all your data off it and wipe the drive...

sneak into a friends room/apartment and install the drive without them knowing...

wait for the panicked call when their computer makes sounds like it is possessed...

come over to "save the day" and the both of you can spend a couple minutes laughing your backsides off at the expression on his/her face when you calmly take your drive back and say "hey! i wondered where I put that!"