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I guess if I had to describe the sensation, it would be difficult. A hum,
maybe, but that's a sound. I'll bet that a lot of people would describe it
as a vibration -- I really can't think of much else to call it, if I was
forced to name it. I know it's caused by the spinning drive, but if I didn't
know something inside was spinning, I don't know if I'd recognize it as
that, since all I'm feeling is exterior of the drive.
Needless to say, it's impossible to tell if what the OP was feeling was
normal or not, considering we both know what the sensation is, and we're
still fiddling with the semantics.
Might be a good experiment. Have someone touch a drive and ask them what the
sensation is.
"Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>A spinning type sensation (feel) is a lot different than a vibration, which
>should not be. As I have said, I have never seed an actual vibration. At
>the speeds the disks spin at, I would thing that the platters would self
>destruct.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from: George Ankner
> "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>
> "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> message news:e8h4rBEvFHA.3756@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> It depends upon what you mean by "vibration".
>>>
>>> The word is highly subjective and open to interpretation. I have
>>> installed many hundreds of hard drives. I have never had even one
>>> vibrate. If I put my finger on one I can not even tell it is running.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm....really? That's one of my high-tech diagnositics for hard drives.
>> There's a different sensation when a drive is spinning and when it's not.
>> It's not like a washing machine, but there's something, even on the
>> quietest drives I have.
>>
>> It could also have something to do with the way the drive is mounted, or
>> what it's sitting on. If you've got something resonating with the drive,
>> it can multiply the effect.
>>
>>
>>> If you have a "pulsing" type of vibration that is highly rhythmic, I
>>> would say the drive is mechanically defective and should be replaced. If
>>> there is a fan in the external case, it is likely that the fan is out of
>>> balance and you don't have a drive vibration problem at all.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard Urban
>>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>>
>>> Quote from: George Ankner
>>> "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
>>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>>>
>>> <web@ivanweb.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Oh, sorry, I mean 100Gb. So, can I assume that little vibration is
>>>> normal and the hard drive is ok?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Lato
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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