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7 minutes ago, Zapthos_ said:

But it's loud. It's louder than my GPU. Is there any way I can make it quiter (other than replacing it with an SSD)?

could try putting it on some foam to dampen vibrations, as usually the noise of a HDD is down to vibrations of the disk

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I'm trying to make my pc quieter and found out that the fan curve was crap especially at idle but now I hear my Seagate hdd over everything else and it spins up randomly even without partitions on it, is there a way to stop this?

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Well the best thing to do is actually disable it ever spinning down unless you turn it off, or at least set it to 2 hours between spin downs. It'll prolong the life of the head assembly especially if you've got a landing zone drive - most low end Barracudas are. 

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3 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Well the best thing to do is actually disable it ever spinning down unless you turn it off, or at least set it to 2 hours between spin downs. It'll prolong the life of the head assembly especially if you've got a landing zone drive - most low end Barracudas are. 

But it's loud. It's louder than my GPU. Is there any way I can make it quiter (other than replacing it with an SSD)?

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Just now, Zapthos_ said:

But it's loud. It's louder than my GPU. Is there any way I can make it quiter (other than replacing it with an SSD)?

You could try and pad around it. 

What series is the drive? 7200.9? Those are pretty loud. 

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3 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

You could try and pad around it. 

What series is the drive? 7200.9? Those are pretty loud. 

It's an ST2000DM008-2FR102

 

Also I just noticed I have some other weird drives in device manager, do you know what they are? afbeelding.png.ea2e7cace5465c00028285b04155aa51.png

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7 minutes ago, Zapthos_ said:

But it's loud. It's louder than my GPU. Is there any way I can make it quiter (other than replacing it with an SSD)?

could try putting it on some foam to dampen vibrations, as usually the noise of a HDD is down to vibrations of the disk

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15 minutes ago, Zapthos_ said:

It's an ST2000DM008-2FR102

 

Also I just noticed I have some other weird drives in device manager, do you know what they are? afbeelding.png.ea2e7cace5465c00028285b04155aa51.png

That's the Xbox Virtual Drive. If you have Xbox or MS store games installed on your system those show up

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49 minutes ago, Zapthos_ said:

it spins up randomly even without partitions on it

then unplug the power from it until the drive is actually being utilised. If it's not even partitioned then it's not being used.

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27 minutes ago, emosun said:

then unplug the power from it until the drive is actually being utilised. If it's not even partitioned then it's not being used.

That was when I got the drive. I added partitions a day later when I had the time to set everything up

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