hard drive "beeps"

thunderpoitthunderpoit
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
i have a 3x80GB raid and one of my hard drives makes an occasional "beep", but i dont know which one it is. i asked one of the computer repair technicians where i work, and he said its a sign that the drive is going bad and could die soon. is there any kind of diagnostic software that runs on osx that could test which one is going bad?

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    thunderpoitthunderpoit Posts: 709member
    i acquired a copy of tech tool pro from a friend and the drives all appear fine. only odd thing is that one of the drives temp reading is 107 degrees, its the one i have mounted in the zip drive bay. me thinks it may be time to try and figure out how to rig a fan for it
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    thunderpoitthunderpoit Posts: 709member
    at the risk of talking to myself, does anyone know if such a thing as an IDE/ATA extension cable exists, i may be able to solve my problems with one
  • Reply 3 of 3
    akumulatorakumulator Posts: 1,111member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ThunderPoit

    at the risk of talking to myself, does anyone know if such a thing as an IDE/ATA extension cable exists, i may be able to solve my problems with one



    I think so. Check CompUSA... I think I saw something like that there.
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