Turn the computer off and then unplug the red, black, white and yellow cord from the back of the hard drive. Turn the computer on and see if the sound has stopped.

Ericuse165 has a friend with a PC that's making a grinding noise. Eric asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum for advice.

Attackers can use sound waves to interfere with a hard drive's normal mode of operation, creating a temporary or permanent denial of state (DoS) that could be used to prevent CCTV systems from ...

Ignore them for too long, and you might find yourself facing corrupted files, dead components, or even a fried PC. The first time I heard a faint ticking coming from my desktop, I assumed it was one ...

Wrong. As security researchers recently demonstrated, the sounds of your computer’s hard drive can be used to transmit data from an air-gapped and seemingly well-protected machine.