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WD Blue (with sand inside?!)

D-ManKTA
By D-ManKTA
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  Hey so I just got a 3.5' 320GB WD Blue drive from ebay. It was listed as fully working. But the odd part was when I was holding the drive, every time I tilt it, it would sound like 

there is sand inside the drive?! WTF? I currently have it plugged in to my old rig and the drive seems to be working and S.M.A.R.T data shows the drive is healthy.

Is this normal for WD drives? Whats going on here?

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  Hey so I just got a 3.5' 320GB WD Blue drive from ebay. It was listed as fully working. But the odd part was when I was holding the drive, every time I tilt it, it would sound like 

there is sand inside the drive?! WTF? I currently have it plugged in to my old rig and the drive seems to be working and S.M.A.R.T data shows the drive is healthy.

Is this normal for WD drives? Whats going on here?

you are probably moving around the mechanical parts, stop shaking your hard drive dude 

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you do not shake the HDD

 

what you hear is the read write head moving about

 

if you shake and the head may scratch the platters

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Hey there @D-ManKTA :) welcome to the community! 

 

As the guys explained, you are most probably causing the mechanical parts to move while shaking the drive. It is strongly suggested that you don't do that as you can damage the platters inside the drive with the actuators and the read/write heads inside, as @dragoon20005 pointed out. 

If you want to be sure that the drive is functioning properly, I would run WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool and see if the drive passes both the quick and the extended tests. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ayNFnU 

Post back if you have problems with the drive or if there are odd noises coming from it while working in your computer. :)

 

@Dan Castellaneta congrats on the post count :)

 

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Thanks for the info!

 

Just to clarify, I wasn't shaking my drive vigorously   :D

 

I just tilted it a few times to figure out where the sound was coming from

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If you are worried do run the tool and see if the drive passes the tests. If there are strange noises coming from it when operating, contact our live support and see if the guys there can help you out and if you need to apply for an RMA procedure. Here's a link to our live support: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=kkhwSj :)
Feel free to drop a line if you have anything else that I can help you with.
 
Captain_WD.

If this helped you, like and choose it as best answer - you might help someone else with the same issue. ^_^
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