Western Digital Calviar Black 500gb SATA

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Armpits

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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

voyagerfan99

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

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

Like a eee eee eee noise.
 
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bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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oscaryu1 said:
All HDD's these days should be silent. Only loud and clicky ones are from a decade ago.
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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.
 
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Armpits

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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.
 
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heydockyle

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Armpits said:
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.
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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.
 
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Gabe63

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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.
 
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