Hard Drive makes weird noise.

[Vesthigio]

Hello. I recently bought a 8tb HDD. The drive works fine, but sometimes you can hear a strange noise when the disk is working.

VIDEO: https://imgur.com/a/goEtJ7m (You need to turn up the volume)

In the video you can hear one around the 12 sec and another one in the 2 sec.

Should I return the drive?

[Shittygamingsince2009]

Comrade,there are multiple factors for why hard drive make weird noise yes?i opened your video to hear noise but could not find any,this might be the fan,however if you hear a certain tick noise,worry not,it’s the cable connecting the Hdd to the motherboard,all you need to do is just replace the cable,even if it’s not the ticking noise I still recommend switching cables.

[ohDrum]

probably a fan, hdds dont usually make noise

[Levent]

18 minutes ago, Vesthigio said:

Hello. I recently bought a 8tb HDD. The drive works fine, but sometimes you can here a strange noise when the disk is working.

VIDEO: https://imgur.com/a/goEtJ7m (You need to turn up the volume)

In the video you can here one around the 12 sec and another one in the 2 sec.

Should I return the drive? The hard drive is working fine apart from the noise.

NVM, its just head movement. Doesnt sound like anything bad.

 

10 minutes ago, ohDrum said:

hdds dont usually make noise

Wrong again, HDDs do make sounds, even perfectly healthy ones do.

[Vesthigio]

7 hours ago, Shittygamingsince2009 said:

Comrade,there are multiple factors for why hard drive make weird noise yes?i opened your video to hear noise but could not find any,this might be the fan,however if you hear a certain tick noise,worry not,it’s the cable connecting the Hdd to the motherboard,all you need to do is just replace the cable,even if it’s not the ticking noise I still recommend switching cables.

Thanks for your reply. It's not fan, I disconnected the hard drive and the noise stopped. I changed the cable, it didn't make a difference. Perhaps that noise is not a big deal?

 

6 hours ago, Levent said:

NVM, its just head movement. Doesnt sound like anything bad.

Very well. Thank you for your insight.