Funny noise

Applesean · May 17, 2016

The last few days my PC has been making a funny noise from time to time, the noise sounds like "Crickets in the Night". After sticking my head in it a few times i think it's coming from the hard drive. The noise gets bad when first boots up then clams down to the "crickets" level.

The drive is only a year old and hasn't been heavily used or abused, and is only mass storage atm, my boot and ssd are my main drives. Is this HDD toast? or will i have to get a new one? either way the crickets are driving me mad.

#Should Of Gone WD

paprikman · May 17, 2016

If it's just a 1 year old, it should be on a warranty, isn't it?

If not, I'd started to think about new one.

ben dover kid · May 17, 2016

dayyyym its gonna blow up! get a new one! WD! no, buy an SSD! i got my juicy 850 evo and ill never go back

GamerGuyEbby · May 18, 2016

Sound like it is going bad, if you can take off one of the sides and examine the disk and needle as it spins. If you cant do that then run it outside of your case and then listen to it closely to make sure it isn't anything else but if you are sure then don't bother. But in the mean time think about getting a new one. Also back it up now.