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Replaced this drive today (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Randelung@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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It's been sounding like a dead fan bearing in the rack for a while, there's really old machines in there. Turns out no! The drive did the screeching. I was stunned for a second when the noise stopped upon its removal.

Platter smoke. Don't breathe this!

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just spray some WD-40 in there, format it at half the capacity, and send it!

You got this 👍

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago

Seagate: ...

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

It’ll go way faster than 5200 RPM if you do that