WD Green faint "grinding" noise.

[Hemanse]

Been hearing a faint grinding or whiny noise, kinda hard to describe, first thought it was one of my fans, but after a bit of looking around i found out its comming from my WD Green disk, i have backed up the data on it just to be safe, but im guessing its time to replace it? Would be nice to go all out SSD, i have 2x Samsung 256GB 850s, but the bigger disks are still quite expensive

[AverageHardware]

Have you used CrystalDiskInfo to see if it is throwing any error codes? 

But yeah, generally bad noises and HDDs don't go together very well.

[Cactu]

how old is the drive, the way you have described it makes it sound like normal noise, do a write/ read test and idle and compare the noise difference to be sure

[techguru]

Been hearing a faint grinding or whiny noise, kinda hard to describe, first thought it was one of my fans, but after a bit of looking around i found out its comming from my WD Green disk, i have backed up the data on it just to be safe, but im guessing its time to replace it? Would be nice to go all out SSD, i have 2x Samsung 256GB 850s, but the bigger disks are still quite expensive

use a program to read the smart data from the drive

[Hemanse]

 

This is the CrystalDiskInfo, doesnt seem to show anything really, unless im reading it wrong  

 

 

how old is the drive, the way you have described it makes it sound like normal noise, do a write/ read test and idle and compare the noise difference to be sure

 

Not 100% sure how old it is, probably like 1½-2 years by now, but yeah its not the kind of noise the disk makes when reading or writing data, im guessing it might just be time to replace it, maybe pick up a 500GB Samsung SSD and just keep my stored data on a external disk.

[Hemanse]

Just disconnected the disk, it is definitely it making noise, too bad there arent any good deals on disks here in Denmark on Cyber Monday, all useless crap