Help identifying HDD noise?

[zane.exe]

Hey all,

 

I'm new to the forums, so if this post isn't allowed please feel free to delete it.

 

I recently bought some Seagate IronWolf Pro drives for my server, but they're making a concerning(?) noise when performing reads/writes. Here's a link to a Youtube video where you can hear it. It's almost crunchy sounding.

 

Can anyone tell me if this indicates drive problems? Or is this normal noise for reads/writes? Just need to know if I should start the refund process.

 

Thanks a bunch in advance.

[OddOod]

Welcome to the forums!

It sounds pretty normal, but I'd use crystal disk info to just double check. Regardless there should be a pretty solid warranty on them and if they do fail you can get new ones no problem. As always, 3-2-1 backups

[BondiBlue]

That sounds normal to me. Have you checked the S.M.A.R.T. info with a tool like CrystalDiskInfo (as mentioned by @OddOod) or something similar?

[zane.exe]

37 minutes ago, OddOod said:

Welcome to the forums!

It sounds pretty normal, but I'd use crystal disk info to just double check. Regardless there should be a pretty solid warranty on them and if they do fail you can get new ones no problem. As always, 3-2-1 backups

9 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

That sounds normal to me. Have you checked the S.M.A.R.T. info with a tool like CrystalDiskInfo (as mentioned by @OddOod) or something similar?

Thank you both for the help. It's very reassuring to hear that it sounds normal.

 

To answer your question, yes! I ran a short test on both drives, and they both showed no errors. I think I'll copy over the data from my previous drive as a "stress test", then perform a long S.M.A.R.T. test on both drives just to be sure. 

[OddOod]

9 hours ago, zane.exe said:

Thank you both for the help. It's very reassuring to hear that it sounds normal.

 

To answer your question, yes! I ran a short test on both drives, and they both showed no errors. I think I'll copy over the data from my previous drive as a "stress test", then perform a long S.M.A.R.T. test on both drives just to be sure. 

TBH I just took possession of 12 refurb 14TB Seagate Exos X16's (don't @ me, they were 150$) and I was HELLA concerned about the noises, but then I remembered that the last drives I actually handled while they were live were 4TB drives and that was 5 years ago. I think these boys are just getting louder as we push ever closer to the limit of spinning rust.
For the record, I dropped each into a test bench and discovered 11 had 2 power on events and under 24hrs of use, while the 12th had 90 hours and 5 power cycles. *very* happy with my purchase.