Whenever mechanical hard drives are accessed, various noises will be heard, including clicking, whirring, and the occasional "grinding," which is just a series of subtle click sounds close together.

QUESTION: What should I be doing to monitor my hard drive? ANSWER: Of all the components that make up your computer, the hard drive should be considered the most important to maintain and monitor ...

No PC is truly silent, but your computer shouldn’t be noisier than your lawnmower. If you have to turn up your music just to drown out the whirring or grinding noises your computer makes, you may want ...

So, out of the blue, the hard drive in my (not too old) Fujitsu P1120 laptop began to make a whirring noise <I>when I tilt or move the laptop</I>. As long as the laptop is stationary, read/write and ...

Have you listened to your PC lately? I mean, really listened? If you’re lucky, your PC doesn’t have much to say. But if yours sounds like a box of pots and pans falling down a flight of wooden stairs ...