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Are these symptoms of a dying harddrive?
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You're fine for RAM at the moment? What's the machine, how old is the hard drive and how much RAM do you have? Is it a program specific? Is the hard drive clicking?
I hope your HD's fine because upgrading RAM is much cheaper.
I hope your HD's fine because upgrading RAM is much cheaper.
Click-Killer
In the past 2 years, I've lost 2 drives... both started with that Clicking noise! If I were you... save your data!
In the past 2 years, I've lost 2 drives... both started with that Clicking noise! If I were you... save your data!
Doesn't sound that good mate. I have just gone through the HD dilemma myself. Disk utility did not report the fault when I ran a repair permissions sweep.
I was having the exact same probs as you were describing so if you can - I'd backup all your important stuff immediately.
I decided to download SMARTReporter. It informed me of the fault. Unfortunately it was too late to do anything as I was having the symptoms for about 2 days and the drive was cactus.
Good luck!
aussie_geek
edit - SMARTReporter is installed on all my Mac's. I have configured it to check the drives every 300 mins so I will at least get some warning
I was having the exact same probs as you were describing so if you can - I'd backup all your important stuff immediately.
I decided to download SMARTReporter. It informed me of the fault. Unfortunately it was too late to do anything as I was having the symptoms for about 2 days and the drive was cactus.
Good luck!
aussie_geek
edit - SMARTReporter is installed on all my Mac's. I have configured it to check the drives every 300 mins so I will at least get some warning
if you have a fairly newer machine and have over 512 RAM.
then yea it might be a good idea to back up right now
it might not have much time left.
then yea it might be a good idea to back up right now
it might not have much time left.
Loud clicking is always a bad sign, backup your data now and run a SMART tester, if it fails chuck the drive and get a new one. Nothing is worse then operating on a dying drive.