>> Re: Maxtor DX7406L "clunk" noise
My Maxtor DX7406L does this aswell. I am not really concerned about it, considering the general audible resonance the drive has when seeking. I've noticed this in a few drives over my time as a technician.
If your drive starts to clunk any other time then when parking (aka shutting down) you might want to move your data onto another reliable drive just in case a failure is on its way.
I'm getting the drive thingy off the Maxtor website as we speak prevent IS better than a cure.
>> Re: Maxtor DX7406L "clunk" noise
I might take this opportunity to note that I've only had my Maxtor DX7406L for uggs cyber monday 1 week, and I already hate it's guts. It makes too much noise for my liking. It's nearly as bad as an old Seagate.
I love quiet hard drives. Unless I'm trying to diagnose a problem, in which case noise can be good.
Take a look at the specs of the Seagate Barracuda IV's they are the quietest drive currently available. I love them to bits, but they don't have ATA133 yet. They better soon. waving fist
>> Re: Maxtor DX7406L "clunk" noise
I have the exact same problem. My onboard soundcard cuts out or becomes garbled while playing music, whenever the drive reads I get this. ugg boots black friday If I start copying data, I can't understand the music at all. I've been looking for nearly a week now and this is the first I've seen someone else having the same problem.
Motherboard Gigabyte GA7VRXP w/AMD 1600
Onboard sound Creative PCI 128
Drive Maxtor 6L040L2 40GB ATA133 Fluid Bearing "L" series
Have you found a solution to your sound problem yet?
>> Re: Maxtor DX7406L "clunk" noise
I just installed a DX7406L (Windows XP) and am getting the clunk intermittently during read/write operations. It's the sound I remember from certain quantum drives when the heads park, before shutting down. However my drive is making the noise intermittently during read/write operations. It almost sounds like an intermittent rattle inside the drive. Very scary time to request an RMA I guess. I'm sticking with Seagate Barracuda ATA drives from now on (never had any trouble with the Barracuda IV, which is quieter than the Maxtor). I've heard great things about this Maxtor DX7406L from other users, but I must be unlucky with this particular drive.
>> Re: Maxtor DX7406L "clunk" noise
Yes, well. I'm unsure of my Maxtor's model number, (Forgot to write it down before installing the bloody thing) but I think it's a DX7406L, and I was experiencing the same Read/Write difficulties under WinXP. The comp would freeze for a moment, I'd wait, and then everything was normal again. Temperature in the case was fine, only 80 Degrees, but now the drive refuses to boot. Nice unhappy 'Clunk' noise during the dive seek, and the same sound occurs when accessing the drive. Half the time it won't show up in CMOS. I have it partitioned into a 5/33 split with XP on the 5 gig. New HD too, purchased it in September. Any suggestions?I've just bought a computer which is almost 6months old. It also has the DX7406L drive. The drive makes a weird rattling noise when Idle. No clunking or other hard noise, but ist just sounds like he's reading al the time. But the noise is far more softer than the extual read/write sounds.
I've tested the drive with HDTach and the speed reading is good, so the noise it's making isn't slowing the drive down. But somehow I don't trust it. I don't have any important or nonbackuped data on it.