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In need of some help 

 

I have a WD Red drive "Western Digital Red WD101EFAX 10TB 3.5" NAS Hard Drive"

its new 

problem is - it is constantly spinning at max speed and creating an annoying moderately loud hum (not so loud to the point where the drive is obviosuly defective)

i have tried changing power options to " turn disk of after 1 min" - does nothing 

i have formatted the drive and on resource monitor, it is not being used - still loud hum 

the drive is otherwise functioning perfectly fine, and i dont believe there to be any bad sectors/errors with it when i ran some HDD checking software  - also no scratching/scraping, abnormal clicking sounds, just a moderately loud annoying constant hum 

 

My main problem is the sound it creates - i am not concerned at all if it is always spinning 24/7, as long as it does it quietly 

i have another WD black drive that is silent when idling 

 

i have searched all over for an answer with no success in finding a way to make my WD red drive spin down/silently 

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I also have a WD Red Pro 6TB NAS in my PC and it's a lot louder than my 10 year old Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000.C 1TB. 

These WD NAS drives are just loud unfortunately. 

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14 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

I also have a WD Red Pro 6TB NAS in my PC and it's a lot louder than my 10 year old Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000.C 1TB. 

These WD NAS drives are just loud unfortunately. 

strange thing is - the drive does sometimes spin down completely and it does become quiet - its just that its very unpredictable 

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21 minutes ago, Hotdogs&bbqsauce said:

strange thing is - the drive does sometimes spin down completely and it does become quiet - its just that its very unpredictable 

Yes, if you have the power profile in Windows set to let the drive spin down after inactivity, the drive will do that. 


But Windows almost never idle completely, which is why the drive will seem to spin down randomly. I've tried many things. Edited what Windows can search in, the index thing, stopped Windows from defragging while idle, things like this, and the drive still almost never spins down, and just randomly spins up when it has spun down. Also, if the drive has stopped and I open Windows Explorer, my whole PC will freeze until the drive has spun up again. 

Windows is a buggy mess when it comes to idling these drives... I've even considered buying a HDD cage, to put all my HDD's in that and turn it off when I don't use them, because yes, these HDD's are loud and it's impossible to have a proper silent system with these installed. 

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1 hour ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Yes, if you have the power profile in Windows set to let the drive spin down after inactivity, the drive will do that. 


But Windows almost never idle completely, which is why the drive will seem to spin down randomly. I've tried many things. Edited what Windows can search in, the index thing, stopped Windows from defragging while idle, things like this, and the drive still almost never spins down, and just randomly spins up when it has spun down. Also, if the drive has stopped and I open Windows Explorer, my whole PC will freeze until the drive has spun up again. 

Windows is a buggy mess when it comes to idling these drives... I've even considered buying a HDD cage, to put all my HDD's in that and turn it off when I don't use them, because yes, these HDD's are loud and it's impossible to have a proper silent system with these installed. 

hmm oh well  looks like ill have to put up with it. ive tried all the things youve listed too 

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1 hour ago, Hotdogs&bbqsauce said:

hmm oh well  looks like ill have to put up with it. ive tried all the things youve listed too 

Yeah I don't think there's much you/we can do unfortunately... 

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