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.