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Noisy external hard drive?

Matsy
By Matsy
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I bought a Seagate STBV3000200 from amazon, it arrived plugged it in, it works fine.

However...the noise its making is too loud.

I can hear it over everything else in my room.  Can clearly here it spinning even from across the room

Is this normal? its not making any clicking or anything, just the normal operation noise.  Can easily make out distinct hum of it spinning.  In a otherwise silent room, its very obnoxious when I'm lying in bed watching something.

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Its not normal.Contact amazon and send it back!It will probably die in a week,if its not aleady dead...

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Its not normal.Contact amazon and send it back!It will probably die in a week,if its not aleady dead...

 

I don't mean its loud or making any bad sounds.

Just in a silent room I can hear it from across the room (the thing spinning)

PC SYSTEM: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 / i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz / CM Hyper 212 EVO / Gigabyte 670 OC SLI / MSI P67A-GD53 B3 / Kingston HyperX Blue 8Gb / 

WD 2tb Storage Drive / BenQ GW2750HM - ASUS VE248H - Panasonic TX-P42ST60B/ Corsair AX750 / Logitech K360 / Razer Naga / Plantronics Gamecom 380 /

Asus Xonar DGX / Samsung 830 256gb / MEDIA : eMachine ER1401 running OpenELEC XBMC with Seagate STBV3000200 3TB Hard Drive - Panasonic TX-P42ST60B

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3.5'' thing? Those aren't really optimized for silence as is. They are just normal WD Blue/Green etc drives in plastic enclosure. No rubber, no padding. Just some holes for cooling. If you can, set it to spin down or shut it down somehow when not using.

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