Until recently my 5000T has always been very quiet and I never understood the various complaints that its hard drive is sometimes noisy.
But the other morning my 5000T began emitting a loud, irregular clicking noise which continued for some minutes. At the time it was only recording one programme on BBC News HD.
I hoped it was a one-off but today the clicking started up again. It continued, intermittently, from 16:50 - 17:10., while recording two programmes on Sky News and BBC News HD.
I recorded a minute or so on my iPod. It uses the earphones as microphones when recording and since they have foam covers which I forgot to remove it's a little muffled, but you'll get the idea:
http://www.swoopshare.com/file/5d8eff09c2ca234143fedb607c9dbbe3/Humax+FVP-5000T+HD+Noise.mp3.html
(You can listen online and/or download the MP3).
It's the sort of alarming noise you associate with the imminent death of a hard drive or an optical drive that you stuck two DVDs in by mistake.
The box records the same news programmes on the same channels every evening but this is the first time I've heard that racket.
I'd just about come to terms with the 5000T's appalling slowness but if this noise becomes a regular occurrence it's definitely going back to Argos.