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I guess my laptop's hard drive is fucked by fabio 07/09/2017, 1:18pm PDT Had a slight buzzing sound coming from my laptop on Friday. Tilting it up then back seemed to stop it. Planned on opening it up for some duster the next day. Figured it was a fan that might need to be replaced. Friday night, lots of loading took forever then a screeching buzzsaw. Couple seconds later everything just froze. Fuck, figured the fan totally got fucked and it was a heating issue. Tried booting it up 3 hours later. Immediate screen saying boot device not found. More buzz saw. Fuck. Opening up revealed it was the hard drive making the noise. While fucking around with it open, I turned it on while it was upside down. Zero noise. Booted up just fine. Everything runs great. Tilting even slightly gets the buzz saw sound back. So now I'm running the thing with the cover open, hard drive out on the table turned upside down. Everything's working fine for now but I'm looking into replacing the thing tomorrow. What the hell though? It's a solid state drive. I thought the whole point to the things was no moving parts.

I guess my laptop's hard drive is fucked by fabio 07/09/2017, 1:18pm PDT     Yeah, that doesn't sound good by Dr. SSD 07/09/2017, 2:58pm PDT     what brand and model SSD and how old? NT by Eurotrash 07/09/2017, 4:29pm PDT         Re: what brand and model SSD and how old? by fabio 07/09/2017, 5:20pm PDT             That one says HDD. Are you sure it's not a platter and head? NT by Mysterio who is not a Thought Leade 07/09/2017, 9:03pm PDT                 Yeah, why would a SSD have an RPM rating? NT by MM 07/09/2017, 9:15pm PDT             "5.4K rpm hard drive" there's your problem by Eurotrash 07/10/2017, 1:46am PDT                 It said "solid state" on the unit :( by fabio 07/10/2017, 6:34am PDT                     And I would've got away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids NT by hard drive 07/10/2017, 7:39am PDT                     I wonder if the disk is completely dead, but the part on the ssd is still there by Entropy Stew 07/11/2017, 7:26pm PDT     Maybe a bad connector point in one of the wires that's straightened upside down? by MM 07/09/2017, 4:55pm PDT         Doesn't seem like it by fabio 07/09/2017, 5:17pm PDT     New SSD by fabio 07/14/2017, 11:21pm PDT         Welcome to the new reality NT by Solid State Dreams 07/15/2017, 1:35am PDT