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 ...

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.

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 ...