Hello.
After designing a computer specifically to be quiet in my dorm room, I am now discovering this is suddenly not the case (2 months later). My main HD is a Seagate Barracuda V, apparently the quietest on the market. It was GREAT for the first 6 months I had it at home (could barely tell that the PC was running), and, IIRC, it has been fine here, although off the carpet and on a wood floor has increased the sound a bit.
Now, it seems that the HD is as loud as any other drive. Comparitively, it seems to be grinding. It's not LOUD, per say, as in there's a MAJOR problem, but it's as loud as a normal drive now. I double checked, and the only thing on my Maxtor 7200rpm 80GB ball-bearing drive is games and videos, and the paging file is on the barracuda, so I see no reason why I should hear all this noise.
Am I imagining things? May it be going bad? Is this normal? Thanks for the info...