Noisy Maxtor

[Bus No. 8]

My just-about-new Maxtor 750gb drive is making some awful noise like the spinning drive brushing against something. It's quite loud. Doesn't happen every time, and when it does happen I can usually get it to stop by ejecting it from my desktop, shutting it down and re-starting it, which is tedious.

Of course I'm freaked out about losing data (my project files are backed up, but losing my media would be huge) [I use FCP 5]. I don't currently have another drive large enough to back all of my media up on.

I'm also finding that my exports of a small, 7 minute project is taking much, much longer than should be the case with an 800 firewire connection. Apart from that, though, I'm still opening, working on and saving my project without any problems (yet).

am I (about to be) screwed? Is it time to return this drive?

 

[Lake Films]

To be safe, get another drive and back up, quick.
I bought a seagate and it makes noise upon starting up and is slow etc...So I backed everything up.

 

[Bus No. 8]

That's what I'm thinking.

Is your Seagate still working, though, and do you still use it?

 

[Lake Films]

I use it for the backup, the roles were reversed. My original was to be the backup, but the new one ended up being the backup after I saw how it performed...