Hello there,
Just like the title suggests, I have a 5 year old MSI GL62M 7RDX that features a Toshiba Sata SSD and an Hitachi HGST 1TB 5400rpm 1TB HDD.
This PC is rarely used. And when I say rarely, I really mean it. I bought it for a school project but ended up scraping that same project and this PC has remained most of its life stored. I occasionally turn it on and use it between months but I've never even done any heavy gaming nor anything major in this so it has no significant wear whatsoever.
Altough to my surprise I've noticed that the HDD has been making this weird squeaky/chirping noise occasionally and I even thought it was my imagination but apparently it's not. The noise happens during heavy workload instances and can be easily replicated via CrystalDiskMark when doing the 4K Writing test.
The disk is a HGST HTS541010B7E610
Specs are as follows:
View: https://youtu.be/em73aPNhKZY
(From timestamp 1:23)
Is the disk dying? Is it "normal"?
Thanks in advance!
Just like the title suggests, I have a 5 year old MSI GL62M 7RDX that features a Toshiba Sata SSD and an Hitachi HGST 1TB 5400rpm 1TB HDD.
This PC is rarely used. And when I say rarely, I really mean it. I bought it for a school project but ended up scraping that same project and this PC has remained most of its life stored. I occasionally turn it on and use it between months but I've never even done any heavy gaming nor anything major in this so it has no significant wear whatsoever.
Altough to my surprise I've noticed that the HDD has been making this weird squeaky/chirping noise occasionally and I even thought it was my imagination but apparently it's not. The noise happens during heavy workload instances and can be easily replicated via CrystalDiskMark when doing the 4K Writing test.
The disk is a HGST HTS541010B7E610
Specs are as follows:
- GTX 1050 4GB Mobile
- i7 7700hq
- 8GB DDR4 2400Mhz
(From timestamp 1:23)
Is the disk dying? Is it "normal"?
Thanks in advance!
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