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MarcusLauk
By MarcusLauk
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Hello i have currently over the last days noticed some wierd sounds from my WD 2tb black

1. When i turn on the computer in the morning and dont log onto my W8 OS thats on my SSD my HDD makes these wierd nose that only happends if its working on something and note its only games on that drive.

2. When i was going to update a video game i opened the launcher and let the update go. When it applied the update to the game on the drive it sounded like there was parts where about to go boom. Preety scary stuff

3. Last thing is that i rendered a video with camtasia 8. When it finnishe rendering the file to the drive a wild blue screen apeared. After a fast reboot i looked up the error message on google and it was about something with the words corrupt and harddrive. To make it even worse I tried to open the rendered video file.... It had been corrupted

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What kind of weird noise? Any way you can explain it, if only slightly?

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How old is the drive? How long does it run, all day erryday? or a few hours every day.

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how does the software work?

 

It works by tapping into the drives S.M.A.R.T. which monitors the drive (not sure how it exactly works), if your drive doesn't have that then I'm not sure lol

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how does the software work?

 

That's something you'll have to ask the software developer, I just use it  :D

 

FireFox is right though, it utilizes SMART. As to what drives have it I'm not sure, every HDD I've scanned with this tool has had the feature, and some of those drives are 3-4 years old.

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