Western Digital Calviar Black 500gb SATA

[Armpits]

Just bought this HDD today, wondering why is it making noises when it's reading? Is it suppose to? Or is it suppose to be silent?

 

[voyagerfan99]

How loud is it? If it is making loud ticking noises that is not normal and the drive may have been damaged during transport.

 

[Gabe63]

It will make a spinning sound like a motor is spinning something at 7200 rpm.

 

[MyCattMaxx]

I have 6 Caviar Blacks 1tb's none make noise.

 

[Armpits]

It sounds like a loading noise, you know when it reads.

Like a eee eee eee noise.

 

[linkin]

hmm... sound slike coil whine, but HDDs dont get that.

 

[voyagerfan99]

It sounds like a loading noise, you know when it reads.

Like a eee eee eee noise.

Well is it doing it all the time or what? You're not being specific.

 

[oscaryu1]

All HDD's these days should be silent. Only loud and clicky ones are from a decade ago.

 

[bomberboysk]

All HDD's these days should be silent. Only loud and clicky ones are from a decade ago.

No hdd is gonna be dead silent, 7200.12 drives and caviar blacks both make a bit of noise, i cant hear mine due to the noise levels in my bedroom but on the other systems in the house it is a faintly noticeable noise.

 

[Armpits]

Ok I be more specific. It doesn't make any noise on idle, only when I'm loading something or making the hard-drive in use abit. It sounds like a beepy loading noise. Like a scanning noise. If you know what I mean. Only makes the noise when it loads something or finding something etc.... other than that, it's quiet.

 

[heydockyle]

Ok I be more specific. It doesn't make any noise on idle, only when I'm loading something or making the hard-drive in use abit. It sounds like a beepy loading noise. Like a scanning noise. If you know what I mean. Only makes the noise when it loads something or finding something etc.... other than that, it's quiet.

Sounds like my drive does when it's loading. Buy my drive is 6 years old. I know the noise you talk about. Hard to explain, but only does it under a load.

 

[Armpits]

Mine is brand new though, should it make that noise?

 

[MyCattMaxx]

My case fan is louder than all my caviar blacks.

 

[Gabe63]

They do make some noise. It also depends on your case. 2 of my cases are mesh front and really dont block any noise, you can hear the HDD's when things are quite and they spin up. In a solid front case I can't hear anything.