What's the sound does a failing hard drive?

How to recognize a failing hard disk?

You want to know if your hard drive to a problem, just by listening to the sound emitted?

Datacenter, a company specializing in data recovery, has a page regrouping the different sound of a hard drive when the latter is failing.

And according to the noise and brand of hard disk, it is possible to identify (more or less precisely) the type of failure.

You can hear the different sounds from the following brand: Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, Hitachi GST, IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Quantum.

Click the little "play" icon on this page:

http://datacenom/hard_drive_sounds.php

Note that

If your hard drive is making noises like those mentioned in the DataCenter page and you are still able to access your files, make a backup!