HDD grinding noise, random from 1 minute to 1 month.
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This happens at VERY random moments, sometimes my computer will be doing nothing and the HDD spins up and sounds like a plain old whir and then some grinding noises, then stops, wait about 6 seconds and it happens again. And then it wont do it for either a whole minute or for a whole month. Just started doing it last month and then stopped and then started it again, is this normal or what? its a WD caviar blue 500gb 7200rpm drive.
Probably set to spin down after a certain time, but a background application wants to access the drive, so it spins up again.
Try disabling the hard drive spin down feature in the power settings.
EDIT: Reread OP. Likely not this then.
Sounds like your bearings are worn.
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