MP 1,1-5,1 think that's dead, huh?

[mattspace]

So, machine has been making some clunky noises on boot and wake from sleep, only vey occasionally, to start, then more frequently. Had my regular full system backup run last night, and left it running till it finished...

The original boot drive the system shipped with - the 650gb Hitachi 7500rpm took 13 & 3/4 hours to backup ~35GB, and now Drive DX's short self-test has been running for about 30 mins, and the machine sounds like there's a little person trapped inside, banging on the wall trying to attract attention.

So I'm going to bet we've identified which drive is making the startup clunking

 

[Macschrauber]

This drive‘s gone south...

 

[Nguyen Duc Hieu]

Still keep the old HDD today? You are bold....
Must have a lot of patience to do so.

 

[mattspace]

Still keep the old HDD today? You are bold....
Must have a lot of patience to do so.

i was working fine up until recently - some useful storage space for stuff that wasn't important enough to have on the boot ssd or a dedicated media drive.