Hard drive problems.....

[ItzUknown]

A week ago I stared hearing my Hard drive (on my pc) to spin a lot faster than usual even when in idle I can hear it....Just to be clear I dont have any problems when it comes to noise after all my pc has 3 fans including the cpu cooler and a hard drive as well as an ssd and it is a mini itx build but thats besides the point the thing is that my hard drive is so loud that even when I have a video playing I can hear it over the voice of the guy I am wathcing. Also sometimes it spins really fast and it sounds like a jet !! The drive is 4TB Western Digital and I got it 2 months ago from my warranty because my other drive malfunctioned and wester digital sent me a new one. I dont know what to do is my disc bad or it is just the fact that it is really loud all the time

 

Thanks in advance!!!!!!!

[samcool55]

Umm, a hard drive can't really spin faster or slower.

It either spins at a fixed rpm (most common rpm's are 5400, 5900 and 7200 iirc) or it's idle which turns off the motor.

 

So it's either a bit loose causing it to rattle and end up being VERY loud because the case usually amplifies the little bit of shaking from the hdd to something a lot worse.

 

What I would do is take the HDD out and put it on a cardboard box but leave it connected and see if the loud noise is away or is actually from the HDD itself.

[ItzUknown]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

Umm, a hard drive can't really spin faster or slower.

It either spins at a fixed rpm (most common rpm's are 5400, 5900 and 7200 iirc) or it's idle which turns off the motor.

 

So it's either a bit loose causing it to rattle and end up being VERY loud because the case usually amplifies the little bit of shaking from the hdd to something a lot worse.

 

What I would do is take the HDD out and put it on a cardboard box but leave it connected and see if the loud noise is away or is actually from the HDD itself.

I did that already by just having the hdd in my hand and it still vibrated a lot and even when i touch it while in the case it was vibrating like crazy however when i had it in my hand I realized that one of the 4 or 5 black circles on the drive (i dont know what they do they look like stickers) is non existent. And also i forgot sometimes there is a knocking sound from the drive

[Lady Fitzgerald]

5 hours ago, ItzUknown said:

I did that already by just having the hdd in my hand and it still vibrated a lot and even when i touch it while in the case it was vibrating like crazy however when i had it in my hand I realized that one of the 4 or 5 black circles on the drive (i dont know what they do they look like stickers) is non existent. And also i forgot sometimes there is a knocking sound from the drive

If you don't have the drive backed up already, back it up NOW.

[ItzUknown]

1 hour ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

If you don't have the drive backed up already, back it up NOW.

I just have games from steam and a couple of documents that I can re-write but why ? Why should I back it up and what does the symptoms that I wrote on my last message mean for the drives life??

[Lady Fitzgerald]

10 hours ago, ItzUknown said:

I just have games from steam and a couple of documents that I can re-write but why ? Why should I back it up and what does the symptoms that I wrote on my last message mean for the drives life??

The symptoms indicate that the drive is probably failing.

[Aashirbad Thapa]

13 hours ago, ItzUknown said:

I just have games from steam and a couple of documents that I can re-write but why ? Why should I back it up and what does the symptoms that I wrote on my last message mean for the drives life??

better get a new Harddisk drive and if you dont want to have a hassle to redownload games from steam, try making a recovery disk of games from steam.

[ItzUknown]

5 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

The symptoms indicate that the drive is probably failing.

Well that doesnt sound very good 

3 hours ago, Aashirbad Thapa said:

better get a new Harddisk drive and if you dont want to have a hassle to redownload games from steam, try making a recovery disk of games from steam.

And I will try to get a new drive but how do i make a recovery disk from steam??

[Aashirbad Thapa]

18 hours ago, ItzUknown said:

how do i make a recovery disk from steam??

Creating Backup Files

1. Right-click the game in the Library section
2. Select Backup game files...
3. Check the boxes for any other games to backup at this time
4. Click Next >
5. Browse to the folder where you wish to create the backup files (the files will be stored in c:\program files (x86)\steam\Backups by default) and click Next >
6. Select the Backup file name and set the File size for the media you plan to use.
7. Click Next > to begin the backup process.
8. Once complete, choose Open backup folder  to move or burn copies of the backup files

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