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[SOLVED] How to tell bad hard bulldoze noises from okay ones?

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I have a WD Easystore 12tb external hard drive I bought over a month ago that I but yesterday fix (formatted HFS+) for the showtime time with my Nvidia Shield to store movies (mostly x-60gb each). It'southward been awhile since I've used a non SSD drive and I forgot that they make noise. (Though my WD_Black 5gb game drive doesn't seem to brand this sort of racket...). It's a faint, almost dampened, adequately regularly paced clicking... though I'k not sure if "click" is the all-time word, since information technology is almost besides damp or rounded – not precipitous enough – to be a click. It seems to make the faint, damp click about every 1.5seconds or and so when watching a movie from it, though sometimes it stops for a few seconds and starts up again. Is this bad?

Honestly, with the movie book on, if you didn't know it was there you might not even find it. But in one case you lot discover it, information technology's hard to ignore it. Is this audio probably normal, as far as the functionality of the hard drive is concerned? Or should I contact WD and say something is wrong with my HD?

The difficult drive on a shelf in our TV stand now. If the sound is normal, I'g thinking of moving it in the cubby behind the Idiot box stand, where in that location used to be a fireplace, and putting it in a box or trying to find some way to insulate the sound, without it getting too hot.

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That noise is normal. There is a magnetic head which literally moves in to a rail, performs a read or write, and then either goes to the next track or goes dorsum to residue position. The noise depends on which track is used for the data, and how much caput seeking is required to get the data. For a pic which is read in bursts you volition get a certain size buffer of data, so the head goes back to rest. A moment subsequently, when the data is used up you will take the aforementioned thing occur once again.

I have non looked upward your specific hard bulldoze, just most of these larger drives use helium make full which has a lot of advantages over nitrogen fill. Sound travels differently in helium, then even if the heads are moving the same mode a nitrogen filled drive moves the helium version will be noisier. I am guessing your bulldoze uses helium, and thus the sound would be different than smaller drives not using helium.

EDIT: A head crash is a rather extreme condition and your system will fail if that is the case. Many signs of an older deejay failing oftentimes evidence as data errors or boot errors, but may not even brand a noise. There are extra sectors for replacing "bad sectors", so you lot can oftentimes continue with a slightly declining disk (but expect the deejay failure will go upwardly rapidly over time as contaminants from previous bad sectors begin to scratch the disk).

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That noise is normal. There is a magnetic head which literally moves in to a rails, performs a read or write, and and then either goes to the side by side rail or goes back to rest position. The noise depends on which rail is used for the data, and how much head seeking is required to get the data. For a movie which is read in bursts y'all will become a certain size buffer of data, and and then the caput goes back to remainder. A moment subsequently, when the data is used up you volition have the same thing occur over again.

I take not looked up your specific difficult drive, simply most of these larger drives use helium fill which has a lot of advantages over nitrogen make full. Sound travels differently in helium, and so even if the heads are moving the same way a nitrogen filled drive moves the helium version will exist noisier. I am guessing your drive uses helium, and thus the sound would be different than smaller drives not using helium.

EDIT: A caput crash is a rather extreme condition and your system will neglect if that is the case. Many signs of an older disk failing often prove equally data errors or boot errors, but may not even make a noise. At that place are actress sectors for replacing "bad sectors", and and then y'all can often go along with a slightly failing disk (but expect the disk failure will go upward rapidly over fourth dimension as contaminants from previous bad sectors begin to scratch the deejay).

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Mostly, it is new noises, not only 'a noise'.

But, don't depend on the sound of a drive to tell you it is dying. Past the time you notice, information technology is probably too late.
A good fill-in routine will protect your information when (not if) it dies.

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Thanks! (I also institute some videos replicating the aforementioned sound my difficult drive is making: hither, hither, and here. The last one is a bit louder considering the phone microphone is right up confronting the hard drive.)

Practice yous have any suggestions for how I might place my bulldoze (probably in a cubby behind the tv stand where a fireplace used to exist) in social club to block or dampen equally much of the racket as I tin without the drive being susceptible to overheating?

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Thanks! (I also institute some videos replicating the aforementioned sound my hard drive is making: here, hither, and here. The last ane is a flake louder considering the telephone microphone is right upward confronting the difficult drive.)

Exercise you lot have any suggestions for how I might place my drive (probably in a cubby behind the tv stand where a fireplace used to be) in order to block or dampen as much of the noise as I tin without the drive being susceptible to overheating?

Simply don't cake cooling. In that location have been unlike people who have said cooling isn't a big bargain, but others who have said it is. My feel is that oestrus does make for failure significantly earlier than a well cooled hard bulldoze. Sometimes mounting on a condom grommet helps with noise, but this tin can also insulate against heat transfer (which isn't a large deal if at that place is already air flow).

Are y'all edifice a custom enclosure? I would provide a large bore slow rpm hydrodynamic (liquid) bearing fan to brand sure in that location is some flow, and so mountain on grommets to prevent dissonance transfer to the chassis.

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