Hard drive sound!

[ictdude1]

I put a new 500gb hgst drive in my acer laptop, its all fine but this laptop does run hot due to there being no fan intake vent on the bottom, i checked the hard drive temp and it was running at 55 celcius which is very hot, now when it spins up and spins down it makes a grinding noise but the smart shows healthy, here is a video of it but the sound is in the last 5 seconds:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwHh8A7egkk

[Chriz6097]

Its always a good idea to back up your hard drives, especially when things get sketchy. At the worst it will fail soon but who knows it may just be a minor issue. 

[smokincola]

You might wanna invest in one of those under laptop cooling solutions. Kinda like a plastic laptop rest with fans built in. However as stated above, always a good idea to back your stuff up just in case.

[LogicalDrm]

The sound is bit weird. I think you should try using drive in desktop or straight rma it. That doesn't sound normal to me.

[Analog]

Nope, it's definitely not normal for the HDD to make such a sound. You should RMA just to be sure, you never now when it can fail. 

[IdeaStormer]

Sound comparisons to be done

 

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php