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    G73JH 500 GB Hard Drive (ST9500420AS) Issues

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by r0gue3, May 10, 2010.

  1. r0gue3

    r0gue3 Notebook Geek

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    I did a search of the forum and couldn't find any relevant posting about this issue.

    I was wondering if anybody else is having issues with their default hard drive. Over the weekend the drive started doing the double-click-whirr every few seconds.

    I've done a bit of research and it seems to be a major issue with this drive and some of Apple's OSX on MacBook Pros, and a found a few people with Dell laptops and HP laptops that mention this issue as well.

    Since I have it as my secondary drive currently, I'm not seeing any issues other than the noise, but I wanted to see if others were having this issue. If so, have you fixed it and how?
     
    r0gue3, May 10, 2010
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  2. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    It's a seagate drive so I'm not surprised it is noisy. I vaguely remember someone mentioning a program called notebook hardware control that can help bring down fan/HDD spinning noise... try googling it.
     
    hakira, May 10, 2010
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  3. mew1838

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    The HD is the worst part of this notebook period.
     
    mew1838, May 10, 2010
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  4. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    I thought the worst part about the HDD was no RAID options.
     
    Chastity, May 10, 2010
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