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Does anyone else's Seagate Barracuda HDD make weird noises?

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I have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda, and when I watch/stream TV or movies online, my hard drive occasionally makes a strange noise. I don't really know how to describe the noise, but I was just wondering if anyone else had an issue. By the way, it only happens when I'm watching videos online. Super weird.

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Can you take a video and share it with us?

Because he had a hard drive.

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They're known to do this. Mainly why WD Blacks are more frequently recommended.

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They're known to do this. Mainly why WD Blacks are more frequently recommended.

WD black drives are some of the loudest drives in the market...

They make a lot of searching noise.

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My 4 don't though my WD blue does.

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They're known to do this. Mainly why WD Blacks are more frequently recommended.

Hitachi > Western Digital > Seagate

 

Hitachi mainly do enterprise drives, and their desktop counterparts are of higher quality than other manufacturers.

 

@OP Is your drive LED light flickering on your case? It indicates that your hard drive is accessing your drive to read/write.

 

On a side note - you tried toggling off hardware acceleration on your browser/media player?

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You sure it's the drive?

Yeah, I've taken off my side panel to make sure it was the drive making the noise.

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Hitachi > Western Digital > Seagate

 

Hitachi mainly do enterprise drives, and their desktop counterparts are of higher quality than other manufacturers.

 

@OP Is your drive LED light flickering on your case? It indicates that your hard drive is accessing your drive to read/write.

 

On a side note - you tried toggling off hardware acceleration on your browser/media player?

Yeah, the LED does flicker. How do I toggle that hardware acceleration on Chrome?

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They're known to do this. Mainly why WD Blacks are more frequently recommended.

no...WD blacks are very loud drives. Infact people are often discouraged from buying them because of the noise.

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no...WD blacks are very loud drives. Infact people are often discouraged from buying them because of the noise.

I guess I fucked up on this one. I read that somewhere. My bad.

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Can you take a video and share it with us?

I can't because I'm quite busy at the moment, but the best I can describe it is a combination of a scratch and a beep noise. It almost sounds like some kind of mechanical squeaking noise. Again, I can't really describe it that well.

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I can't because I'm quite busy at the moment, but the best I can describe it is a combination of a scratch and a beep noise. It almost sounds like some kind of mechanical squeaking noise. Again, I can't really describe it that well.

A video would be the best way for us to tell if it's the HHD or not.

Because he had a hard drive.

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I guess I fucked up on this one. I read that somewhere. My bad.

It used to be true about 5 years ago that WD Blacks had a significantly lower rate of head crashing and general than most other options, but that hasn't been true for a while. Maybe you were reading old crap relating to that.

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A video would be the best way for us to tell if it's the HHD or not.

 

I know it's the HDD because the Hard Drive LED flashes when it makes the noise. I just want to know how to fix it or stop it from happening. I don't know why my hard drive would be active when I'm watching a video online.

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It used to be true about 5 years ago that WD Blacks had a significantly lower rate of head crashing and general than most other options, but that hasn't been true for a while. Maybe you were reading old crap relating to that.

I have been doing this kind of thing for a loooooong time.

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.... I don't know why my hard drive would be active when I'm watching a video online.

 

If this is your only storage device, it's likely writing to the flash player buffer when this is happening. You could try moving the buffer location to another medium to confirm the drive is making the noise.

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I can't because I'm quite busy at the moment, but the best I can describe it is a combination of a scratch and a beep noise. It almost sounds like some kind of mechanical squeaking noise. Again, I can't really describe it that well.

Is it like this? http://youtu.be/HP73edpQwgc?t=1m40s

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