Weird Noise Coming From Hardrive?

[DisconnectedYT]

My 3TB Hard Drive from an unknown company because the damn logo is covered by black permanent marker has recently started to make weird noises.

Well it has been making these noises since i got the thing from the server room at my dads work. It seems to work fine but every 2 seconds make a cuurk sound.

I know nothing about HDD's so i don't know if its broken or if that it reading and writing, or even if it is not secure in my case properly?

It should be in the case properly but i do have a budget oriented case (Corsir Spec 01), is this a problem with the HDD? Should i move windows over to my Samsung 850 Series SSD (128GB).

Or is the PC Fine?

[Murasaki]

Download CrystalDiskInfo and check the HDDs S.M.A.R.T. status.

[KettyKoala]

This sounds normal to me, my HDD does the same sometimes, but I'm planning on moving get rid of it and have a full SSD setup soon, as its the only thing keeping my PC from being silent haha! I'd recommend Installing windows on your SSD and installing the games you play most that have long loading times on your SSD, you will notice a huge difference in performance going trough windows and loading programs etc.

[BurblingBarbacoa]

Most likley that your hard drive is failing. Here is what you should do, step by step: 

1. get an external SSD or HDD the same size as your failing drive and a thumb drive/seperate external hard drive and a new hard drive the same size as your failing drive 
2. put your absolute most important files onto the smaller drive or sub stick. Only the most important, as moving too much stuff on a bad drive can cause it to die. 
3. Create an image/cope all the files and programs from your failing drive onto the exernal hard drive or SSD that is the same size as the failing drive 
4. Take out the failing drive and replace it with a new one. 
5. Put all the stuff from the old drive onto the new one via the image on the external drive. 
6. Keep the usb drive and the external drives for backup and do what you please with your old drive as long as you don't store anything more on it. Maybe take the magnets out. They are pretty cool  

[BurblingBarbacoa]

16 minutes ago, KettyKoala said:

This sounds normal to me, my HDD does the same sometimes, but I'm planning on moving get rid of it and have a full SSD setup soon, as its the only thing keeping my PC from being silent haha! I'd recommend Installing windows on your SSD and installing the games you play most that have long loading times on your SSD, you will notice a huge difference in performance going trough windows and loading programs etc.

A small amount of noise and ticking from a drive is fine when accessing or writing however a noise like that every few seconds is not good... 

[KettyKoala]

Just now, BurblingBarbacoa said:

A small amount of noise and ticking from a drive is fine when accessing or writing however a noise like that every few seconds is not good... 

If you have windows on you HDD, you will probably hear more noises than if not though, you don't have to be purposely accessing files for files to be accessed, he could have programs running in the background. Plus, his default install path for installing programs will probably be his HDD if its not been changed, meaning he will probably have more programs on there.

[DisconnectedYT]

On 3/15/2016 at 7:45 PM, KettyKoala said:

If you have windows on you HDD, you will probably hear more noises than if not though, you don't have to be purposely accessing files for files to be accessed, he could have programs running in the background. Plus, his default install path for installing programs will probably be his HDD if its not been changed, meaning he will probably have more programs on there.

Everything on my PC is saved on my HDD, nothing is on my SSD

[BurblingBarbacoa]

12 minutes ago, KettyKoala said:

If you have windows on you HDD, you will probably hear more noises than if not though, you don't have to be purposely accessing files for files to be accessed, he could have programs running in the background. Plus, his default install path for installing programs will probably be his HDD if its not been changed, meaning he will probably have more programs on there.

Yes, but every two seconds and having it make a 'currk' sound, as he called it, especially if it is fully audible is not a good thing. 

[KettyKoala]

Just now, BurblingBarbacoa said:

Yes, but every two seconds and having it make a 'currk' sound, as he called it, especially if it is fully audible is not a good thing. 

It is unusual, so it could be, could just be a crappy hard drive though. Only way to check would be to run a disk checker, @FrozenSpark try Crystaldiskinfo, mentioned earlier

[BurblingBarbacoa]

8 minutes ago, KettyKoala said:

It is unusual, so it could be, could just be a crappy hard drive though. Only way to check would be to run a disk checker, @FrozenSpark try Crystaldiskinfo, mentioned earlier

Yeah running a disk checker is a good idea but the situation is the same whether it is a crappy drive or a failing one. Both could be lost... *emotion*