As for backing up the data, I had been prepairing to formate the drive for a few months, I have it all backed up. I do realize there are disks inside that spin but should they be constantly spinning? At first when I had only opened the case and felt the drive, it apeared only warm, but when I removed the drive it was actualy hot. I will enable SMART and find a software tool to analize it as sugested, I have only heard of SMART but never realy researched into it, so this will be a good learning project. It was asked what type of hdd it is, the answer is Western Digital. The good news is, that a friend of mine had recently gave us her 40GB drive because her son thought it was not working, but when I hooked it up, it turns out that it was working perfectly, so I am now useing that drive rather then the very noicey one. Today or tomorow ill hook it up as a slave and see if I can find out about the SMART technology thing.
I will be buying a new hard drive to replace the one from my server, problably a 80GB drive or larger, does anyone have a favorite brand or are they all about equal.
phishphreek80, What are these rubber spacers, I havent seen them in any computer suply store around here.
