500GB LaCie External Harddrive, USB2.0 -Vibration Normal?

I installed this morning a 500gb LaCie external harddrive. It makes almost no noise when working, and file transfer is faster than I expected. Yet, when I touch the top of the drive case, I sense that it vibrates. Is that "normal"?

Any users out there with the same drive: Do your drives vibrate as well?

 

Well the drive is spinning at 7200 rpm, and the head is moving back and forth at hyper drive speed. So of course your going to feel some movement!

Yes, its normal.

 

my lacie just died on me after 3 years of continuous operation. It was a good drive I just wish it would have told me that it was dying.

 

3 years is quite good, is it not? Did the deceased vibrate too much?

 

Yea from vibration.

back in april, the drive started buzzing vibrating, grinding. Some pretty awful noises. I hurried up and backed up all my stuff. The next day I turned it on and it was fine until last week when it died.

Now when I try to power up, all I get is a low pitched buzz and some grinding.

Is there anyway to retrieve info off of the drive?

Im pretty sure it is gone.

 

My condolences I hope services were adequate for such a long time companion.

The unfortunate part is that lost are so many memories the two of you had together.

 

What sort of vibration/noise do you mean? I sense vibration only when I actually touch the hard drive. I'm curious whether *that* is normal. No weird noises; just a low hum.

 

LoL. the countless hours we shared together will never be forgotten

Any type of rotating machinery (spinning hard drive) will vibrate. The sounds I was describing were not normal and you would definitely be able to tell the difference between normal and not normal.
I wouldn't be concerned

 

Don't worry about the (normal) hum. What you need to watch out for is grainy hard drives, there's grains of magnetic stuff on those platters, which slowly destroy the drive!

 

If you have tried everything else (EVERYTHING, short of dropping it), try throwing the drive in the freezer. Cover it with a paper towel, plastic wrap it, then seal it in a ziploc bag, and throw it in a freezer for a day (the idea is to keep moisture out). Take it out, and plug it in, preferably in an external housing.

This will by no means permanently fix the drive. It may give you a good chance to get some info off of it though. In my case, I dropped a 100gb 2.5 drive while i was running a movie off of it. Needless to say, it broke. I googled remedies for broken drives, and there are a surprising number of limited success stories on the net by using this method. I was able to get about a Gig of stuff (the movie) off my drive before it thawed and refused to work.

I will stress that this is a last resort however. If this method does not work, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that your drive will EVER work again (and it will probably impact the chances of a data recovery lab recovering the info off of it)

That said, it's a somewhat popular last-ditch method for the average John Doe, whose information on the drive isn't worth $2000 to recover it in a data recovery lab.

 

Thanks for the tip,

I read about that a long time ago but had forgot. Now I have a new project for after work.

I dont have too much important info on the drive, just a bunch of old doc's and about 100 axxo movies that I would like to save.

Thanks alot