Toshiba p300 read/wirte head in idle sound.

[JonyD]

Hello today I  get my new hdd  and when I plug it in  every thing seems to work great but there is some strange noise like is trying to find something but the drive is empty. The hdd is Toshiba p300 2t whit 4 heads and 2 platers but I don't know if those platers are smr. I have installed windows 10 on it and still when the activity in taskmanager drops down close to 0 the head start to search something again but the taskmanager or the activity led is not showing anything. It's like automatic defrag or realocating i think.

[WhitetailAni]

39 minutes ago, JonyD said:

It's like automatic defrag or realocating i think.

Task Manager would report this, and so would your HDD LED.

I'd know, as I have 4 HDDs.

As for what it could be?
Well, Windows 10 almost always needs something from the hard drive to run.

I'd advise running Windows 10 off of an SSD as the experience is much smoother.

[JonyD]

OK but why is keep doing this in bios whitout sata cable. Yes the ssd is much greater option but my configuration is very outdated and I will use is for storage i7 3770 :). 

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[WhitetailAni]

2 minutes ago, JonyD said:

OK but why is keep doing this in bios whitout sata cable. Yes the ssd is much greater option but my configuration is very outdated and I will use is for storage i7 3770 :). 

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The soundtrack doesn't play.

Can you upload it as a .mp3?
Also, an SSD will work fine for a 3770. They aren't generation-specific.

And make sure to quote people so they see your reply.

[JonyD]

20210125_153743.mp3

[JonyD]

6 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

The soundtrack doesn't play.

Can you upload it as a .mp3?
Also, an SSD will work fine for a 3770. They aren't generation-specific.

And make sure to quote people so they see your reply.

Try this