Somewhere in the office...

[mdlbear]

... it sounds as though a bearing is slowly grinding itself to death. It might even be coming from trantor, my workstation. Since the power supply, case, and motherboard are all quite new (a few months, tops), suspicion naturally falls on the hard drive.

The one I just spend much of the weekend re-installing onto. Fortunately it's a client machine, meaning the disk is expendable.

Comments

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

If it was the HD you'd already know it; bearing trouble is Instantaneous Data Death. Tolerances are such nowadays that the mechanical wobble that would introduce would mean that the head wouldn't be able to track the original circles anymore.

I'd check your fans again...

[mdlbear]

Good point. Probably on one of the other machines, then, and the apparent direction just a trick of the room acoustics.

One time when I had a really noisy fan, I eventually tracked it down to the rack-mounted ethernet switch. In this case it's more likely to be one of the two Mini-ITX systems that have CPU fans.

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

Yeah; the stock fans on those really suck. Every last one I've had has failed.

[mdlbear]

As it turns out, it sounds like a video card fan. Same kind of thing: little 40mm piece of junk.