My brand new hard drive has been making noises. At first — starting when I first hooked it up — it was a high-pitched click every now and then, almost like the sound a fingernail clipper makes. Now it's making high-pitched squeaks, too. That can't be a good sign.
I will be royally pissed if this drive craps out on me too, but at least I've nearly finished my backups.
Actually, I've backed up all the recovered data; now I just have to go through all my SONAR projects and turn them into bundles, so the audio data is encapsulated with the projects.