Sunday, September 24, 2017

Laptop hard drive is silent, but it was noisy before. Should I be worried?

So my laptop's hard drive always had this soft, buzzing, clicking sound when the hard drive was working. The sound was there when the laptop was brand new and it was always present during the years, so I considered it normal. I had no problem with the hard disk.


Recently I noticed the sound was gone. My laptop is 4 or 5 years old now and I have no problem with it, but apparently the hard disk does not produce the above mentioned sounds anymore. And it still has no problems I know of.


My question is: is the lack of sound indicates some change in the HD? Should I be on the lookout for possible problems.


I know it is a sign of a bad problem if the hard disk suddenly becomes noisy, producing loud clicking sounds and stuff, but in this case it's the other way around. It was noisy before and now it's completely silent.

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