• Loud Hard Drive
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Recently bought a new drive. The drive was quiet at first but after installing Windows and all my main stuff it makes a lot of noise during use. I have all my data backed up on other drives so thats not a problem. Im just wondering is it normal for a drive to make a tick/click noise during use and a lighter to non existent tick during idle? Or is my brand new drive most likely on its way out?
Ticking usually isnt a very good sign. Check for damaged sectors.
What Taipan said. Ticking is [i]NEVER[/i] good in a mechanical harddrive. I suggest using Speedfan to get SMART statistics, or go to the manufacturers website: (ie: [url]www.seagate.com[/url]) and goto support. They should have their own harddrive diagnostics utility. Go ahead and run a test, and see what they come up with. Don't forget to post SMART attributes here.
[QUOTE=taipan;28640307]Ticking usually isnt a very good sign. Check for damaged sectors.[/QUOTE] Other people seem to have the same issue with the same drive [url]http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WD-Caviar-Black-is-a-loud-drive/td-p/6468[/url] I ran 3 different diagnostic tools and no bad sectors showed. I also defragged the drive but that didn't do anything as its a fresh install.
I would still RMA it. There is a mechanic piece in there malfunctioning.
The last post in that WD forums thread shows pretty much exactly what Im hearing. 38 seconds in [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBhR91KEAHM[/media] On boot up its non stop like it is in that video. When I log in it slows down but continues, when launching programs or browsing the web it does a slightly different noise. Right now its near silent as I type but when I click post it ticks for a second and then stops. My other Western Digital is a 5400RPM and it always made noise but it was a higher pitched one and even after an RMA the new one made the same noise.
That just sounds like the normal read/write noises from the heads moving.... Some are louder then others. My desktop is pretty much silent. But my netbook's is crazy loud.
I have my HDD for 5 years and it's making that noise very often (I guess, when reading/writing). I don't think that bad sectors are the problem, never checked them anyway.
Little ticks or subtle rumbling are normal hard drive noises, the bad sound is the "spoon against a teacup" noise you may hear in a failing drive. As for a head crash, you'll know that when you hear it because all hell will break loose.
Yeah I did another test and it went perfect. Drive runs fine and I did some research. The drive I have is the WD 1TB Black 7200RPM. Turns out this drive isn't really designed to be super quiet and can run as high as 40 decibels. I did a comparison run of one of my older drives and they both make around the same noise, the 5400RPM Green is quieter but nonstop noise while the 7200 is louder but only during access as otherwise it goes into an idle quiet where it only occasionally clicks. Guess next time Ill do some research before I buy a drive.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;28640345]What Taipan said. Ticking is [i]NEVER[/i] good in a mechanical harddrive. I suggest using Speedfan to get SMART statistics, or go to the manufacturers website: (ie: [url]www.seagate.com[/url]) and goto support. They should have their own harddrive diagnostics utility. Go ahead and run a test, and see what they come up with. Don't forget to post SMART attributes here.[/QUOTE] I'm going to go ahead and say if your SSD is ticking its a very bad sign and you should run. [editline]17th March 2011[/editline] Some drives can be very loud I know at my school we have the dell optiplex series computers the full mid tower ones and the slim versions when everyone is quiet in the labs all you hear is harddrive heads moving around. It's quite funny how incredibly shitty the hardrives are take so long to boot.
Going to buy a new hard drive and use this one as a backup. My case is pretty big so sound bounces all over and its extremely loud. Does anyone have any recommendations for a quiet 1TB drive?
Seagate drives are usually pretty loud. My old 500 GB drive that I replaced was so loud that it drove me nuts when it was loading all of the stuff during boot. GRRR GRRRRRRR GRRRRRRRRR. The voice coil in it was so strong that it vibrated the desk too while reading/writing. I replaced it with two 640 GB WD Green drives in RAID 1.
[QUOTE=bohb;28685416]Seagate drives are usually pretty loud. My old 500 GB drive that I replaced was so loud that it drove me nuts when it was loading all of the stuff during boot. GRRR GRRRRRRR GRRRRRRRRR. The voice coil in it was so strong that it vibrated the desk too while reading/writing. I replaced it with two 640 GB WD Green drives in RAID 1.[/QUOTE] I heard WD blue drives are quiet as well. Not quite sure if I should go with a Blue or a Green drive.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;28685755]I heard WD blue drives are quiet as well. Not quite sure if I should go with a Blue or a Green drive.[/QUOTE] Get a Samsung Spinpoint F3.
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