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Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-02-02 09:40
Its just an occasional vibrating sort of noise, doesn't happen all the time. It went a whole day yesterday without doing it. Though, I will say I was on BF3 earlier and it suddenly started making the noise. Lasted at least 2-3 minutes (by then, I stopped playing).
Oh and I've never had to return a HDD before, wasn't sure who I sent it to (supplier or maker :P), and yeah my WD Caviar Black has a 5 year warranty.
Just gotta be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that your HDD is dying ;P
I had another look at the cage my HDD was in, one of the plastic screw holding things (idk what you call them) was broken, it was very hard to get the screw out :P Probably didn't have anything to do with the vibration noise, the HDD was pretty firmly in place.
Couldn't find anything in the cage itself that could have been vibrating from the HDD, though it could have easily been the small control box for my fan that was going against something.
When PC's do things like this, makes me really hate them :P So damn fussy Lol
Edit: Oh and I ran a SMART test with WD's program. All Passed, so I guess that's good :P
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TA wrote on 2012-02-02 09:42
It is okay for hdds to make a little bit of noise while they're being accessed heavily.
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Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-02-02 09:55
Only reason this had me worried was because it was the first time hearing it make that kind of noise, had it since March last year :P
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Odin wrote on 2012-02-05 21:26
Fans making a sort of buzzing/grinding sound means they either have something caught in them, or the main bearing is worn out and the fan will stall soon. I hear it all the time on industrial equipment, the grit in the air around the factory makes the bearings burn out faster than in a normal computer application.
Now when a hard drive makes a sort of rapid thumping sound that doesn't clear up when sitting idle, it means that either the logic board is failing and unable to read the disc, or the disc itself has physical damage. Either one your best course of action is to back up the contents of the drive and replace it.
Though many drives will make a similar sound during heavy use, but the 1TB WD Black drives I run in the server at work are exceedingly quiet and often can't be heard over the power supply fans.
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Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-02-06 07:03
I haven't heard it for a few days, so I guess w.e it was is gone.
My HDD is actually slightly noisier than my fans, usually only during disk activity though.