iPod Classic 160gb making strange noises. Help!

Yeah I've gathered that the spinning of the hard drive is quite a common thing after some research. It's just something I guess I didn't expect due my previous experience's of always having the 6th gen 80 GB model and never really hearing the hard drive spin. I think on my iPod before upgrading to this one made a bit of noise towards the end of its life but other then that there was nothing unless I'd put it directly to my ear.

The noise I was mostly concerned about was obviously the "peeew" and scratchy noise when it stopped loading data as I could hear that within an "arms reach" of me. And with it happening every few songs skipped in Shuffle so thought best ask before I go through the process of returning it.

How does the HDSmartData look? cause cosmetically the iPod looks to have hardly had any use and the stat's seem to be pretty good for how old it is.

Last question, about the art work so it should be fine with it all. and not collectively cause any harm to the loading strain when shuffling through my music? ... Cause when I do finish syncing music I'd say I'll have around 13,000 songs give or take roughly with 1000's of artwork. So even with that amount would I be fine. Or would that cause any lag or delay.

Thank's @turingtest2 for taking time to read and actually give me a response, I great appreciate it.

Yeah the max temp seems pretty high, Considering all the iPod classics I've had over the past 10 years have come from a place called CeX and they've all usually looked like trash and lasted me a good couple years. And the ones I've checked Stats on in the past have always had somewhere between 42-54c on the max temp I'm not going to be too worried as this one looked well looked after. Plus usually the first 2 stats on previous one actually had high-ish numbers and not 0's and even had one with 1 pending sector before and all have given me least 2-3 years off life.

Would you say I should be fine to keep this one or should I consider returning it would you say? and play the luck of the draw again with getting another one. I had to return the one I got before lockdown which had crazy stat's and a faulty headphone jack. So it's just complete luck on what I'd be getting sadly.

Well I shall see how things go once I've fully loaded it up and see the performance is and if it's bearable I'll keep that artwork. As you said makes easier to identify what your listening to at a quick glance of the screen. That's why I got all the art-work with the songs this time as previously I never cared but would then have to also fully look at the screen to check what song I was listening too.

Thanks @turingtest2

Okay will do.

Thankfully has 24 month warranty so I should be covered for a good while. Maybe just needs some good use again if it's been unused and hardly used in the first place. Yeah the previous one's I've had have all been cosmetically horrible and obvious signs of being dropped and with stat's that look like the internal's ain't in decent nick. So fingers crossed. It's such a shame they disconnected the classic models nothing beats having the click wheel can't stand touch screens. I think rather then forking out for another second hand one when this eventually does go, I might as well pay out to get it all upgraded battery wise and get a flash drive or something.

Cheers

Did you even read the post? ... the iPod isn't corrupt.