Hdd

[Fzone]

Is this normal hdd sound when i suppose it writes data? https://youtu.be/oyRGzDrMLlA

[MarvintheParrot]

Just now, Fzone said:

Is this normal hdd sound when i suppose it writes data? https://youtu.be/oyRGzDrMLlA

As far as I know yes. I have a HDD thats makes that noise. So does my friends and my brother. Either all of ours are broken, or that's normal.  

[Applefreak]

11 minutes ago, Fzone said:

Is this normal hdd sound when i suppose it writes data? https://youtu.be/oyRGzDrMLlA

How old is that drive? It does sound slightly disturbing to me.

[Fzone]

1 minute ago, Applefreak said:

How old is that drive? It does sound slightly disturbing to me.

Not mine drive. Just found some dude on yt with same noise. But mine does it aleo but not as often as that one.

[Fzone]

Just now, LloydLynx said:

That completely normal, it's the sound of the read/write head moving really fast to different locations on the disk. If it's a repetitive sound then that might mean trouble, but if it's mostly or entirely random like in the video that's perfectly fine.

Ty. When i asked a friend if he heard it he said no. Thats what got me disturbed. Its a ps4 hard drive so either he rly does not have it or he just cant hear it from the fan noise.

[Applefreak]

5 minutes ago, Fzone said:

Not mine drive. Just found some dude on yt with same noise. But mine does it aleo but not as often as that one.

If it sounds like that all the time, I would assume it to be a precursor to clicking and eventual failure. If not, I'd say you are fine but check the drives Smart values for retry counts. You should see the value going above the allowed threshold if the drive has trouble writing data, possibly failing at some point if that happens.

 

If it is a Toshiba drive, those sound a lot like that all the time as well. Western Digital drives tend to click once on startup when the heads move off the ramp and you can hear the rotating discs deeply humming. On Seagate it is more high pitches but smoother. Hitachi server drives are really quiet while consumer drives used to be similar to Seagate, they don't make them anymore. The most annoying sound came from the old Quantum Fireball 5.25" HDDs

[Fzone]

Just now, Applefreak said:

If it sounds like that all the time, I would assume it to be a precursor to clicking and eventual failure. If not, I'd say you are fine but check the drives Smart values for retry counts. You should see the value going above the allowed threshold if the drive has trouble writing data, possibly failing at some point if that happens.

Its a ps4 drive that is almost full. I cant test it without loosing 800gb of content... but i did not see any diff in loading screens or textures. Still works same as when i got it.

[Fzone]

Just now, LloydLynx said:

Most 2.5" drives like in consoles and laptops are pretty quite. I would imagine you can't hear it in a PS4 because it's so deeply buried in the console, and with the fan covering what little noise escapes.

Ps4 slim has hdd on the outside actually. Coverdd by piece of plastic. When u face fron of the ps4 hdd is located on the left backside of the console.

[Fzone]

1 minute ago, Fzone said:

Ps4 slim has hdd on the outside actually. Coverdd by piece of plastic. When u face fron of the ps4 hdd is located on the left backside of the console.

Here this is my drive actually. I think you can hear a little bit what im talking about but not much. This was while watching netflix.

[Fzone]

11 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

If it sounds like that all the time, I would assume it to be a precursor to clicking and eventual failure. If not, I'd say you are fine but check the drives Smart values for retry counts. You should see the value going above the allowed threshold if the drive has trouble writing data, possibly failing at some point if that happens.

 

If it is a Toshiba drive, those sound a lot like that all the time as well. Western Digital drives tend to click once on startup when the heads move off the ramp and you can hear the rotating discs deeply humming. On Seagate it is more high pitches but smoother. Hitachi server drives are really quiet while consumer drives used to be similar to Seagate, they don't make them anymore. The most annoying sound came from the old Quantum Fireball 5.25" HDDs

It is hgst drive i think.

[Fzone]

1 minute ago, LloydLynx said:

It's amazing how quite they can make some drives now. I imagine Sony chose quiet drives over performant ones because people would complain and return their consoles over nothing.

But you hears that stuff i talked about at the last sec of video. It wasnt rly loud but it was hearable.

[WhitetailAni]

My 23-year-old Seagate ST33232A Medalist sounds like that times 5, but it's dying - Windows 98 SE freezes a lot during bootup.

Incidentally, it sounds like a car engine revving up when it spins up. I'm just not using it right now because I'm only spinning it up once I have a replacement to clone to.

All of my more modern drives (WD 250GB, WD 2TB, and WD3TB) sound like that.

And no, I don't prefer WD over others - I've just never bought a hard drive (pillaged them from other things) and they were all WD.

My Seagate made a vrrrrrRRRR-SCREEEECH noise 5 seconds before it committed suicide.

 

But yours sounds fine.

[LogicalDrm]

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