HDD sounds like a radiation meter

[tank12up]

While copying data my HDD(WD black 2TB) starts to sound like a radiation meter.

Is it normal?

[Lord_Karango17]

It's normal if they make clicking noises when under load. It's the drive head moving back and forward.

 

If it makes noises as soon as its plugged in, and does it in a pattern, something is up...

[werto165]

It was made by Geiger himself, it's probably just moving its read head a lot My WD black gets quite loud at times. 

[rafazafar]

While copying data my HDD(WD black 2TB) starts to sound like a radiation meter.

Is it normal?

haha thats some horrible knocking/clicking there..

If its too loud/frequent then usually it means its somewhat damaged.

Best to backup your data asap, then start finding errors and such

[Godlygamer23]

There will be noise coming from the hard drive, and if you have no sound dampening, that won't help either. Can you record the noise?

 

Also, my NAS drives are audible when reading/writing lots of data, but I check SMART data every 5 minutes or so and never get any errors.

[GodSpoon]

Check for puddles of water around your room, those fuckers tick away at your rad levels, some rad-x usually fixes the issue

 

jk lol

 

Its fairly normal for hard drives to do that, as long as you don't hear grinding or strange constant patterns you should be fine

[KemoKa]

If it's just short whirry clicks, then that's just the drive head moving back and forth across the platter. If it's going CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, then it's probably dying.