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Slower spinning hard disks are occasionally quieter, but in return you lose some of the speed. Otherwise you just gotta deal with it, solid state memory is still not super affordable for the bigger sizes, so you have to deal with HDD noises for a bit longer.

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1 minute ago, Minibois said:

Slower spinning hard disks are occasionally quieter, but in return you lose some of the speed. Otherwise you just gotta deal with it, solid state memory is still not super affordable for the bigger sizes, so you have to deal with HDD noises for a bit longer.

It is very loud what is normal it went from barrly able to heard it to can hear it

what is your opton of get a nas to put all the hard drive in and put it some where else in house or put the hard drive in dock only when using it once in while

 

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There are HDD cooling products that place the drive in an aluminium box.

You can go to drive manager and reduce the drive sleep time.

I use hdparm -Y /dev/sdx  to force drive sleep when I'm not using a drive and the noise is bothering me.

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anti vibartional mounts and sound isolation is all you can do to make HDDs quieter, and have them not running all the time if they are not your OS drive

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Just now, SCHISCHKA said:

There are HDD cooling products that place the drive in an aluminium box.

You can go to drive manager and reduce the drive sleep time.

I use hdparm -Y /dev/sdx  to force drive sleep when I'm not using a drive and the noise is bothering me.

how to find one and how to decide if I need it it is only 500gb

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1 minute ago, fpo said:

Put your computer in a different room. Like Linus did. I personally use studio over ear headphones, so my 7200 RPM is generally quiet to me. 

it look like I would just use a hard drive dock for now to turn it on can not afford the long cable

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9 minutes ago, fpo said:

Is it really that noisy? I may have just gotten used to fans, and hard drive spinning over the years, but the loudest things or the dusty fans. I don't even hear my beautiful Western Digital Hard Drives. Amirite captain Western Digital? 

yes I am use to mac book pro with ssd that make no noise at desk top

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13 hours ago, m2234323 said:

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Hello :)

 

What's the brand and model of the drive? Since HDDs are mechanical units and have actual moving parts inside them they do produce some noise. Excessive noise can be handled by using isolating mounts and checking if the drive is mounted properly on the case and isn't resonating with it or a cable taht is touching it. I'd try moving the drive around in the case and see if that fixes anything. 

Also, excessive noise can be a sign of a drive problem so I'd run some diagnostic tools on the drive and see if it checks out. Backing up the data from the drive is also a good idea at this point. 

 

Let me know if you have any questions! 

 

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16 minutes ago, Captain_WD said:

Hello :)

 

What's the brand and model of the drive? Since HDDs are mechanical units and have actual moving parts inside them they do produce some noise. Excessive noise can be handled by using isolating mounts and checking if the drive is mounted properly on the case and isn't resonating with it or a cable taht is touching it. I'd try moving the drive around in the case and see if that fixes anything. 

Also, excessive noise can be a sign of a drive problem so I'd run some diagnostic tools on the drive and see if it checks out. Backing up the data from the drive is also a good idea at this point. 

 

Let me know if you have any questions! 

 

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52 minutes ago, m2234323 said:

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Try running WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic on that WD Blue drive and see if it passes both the quick and the extended tests. This should show you if the drive is functioning properly. Checking the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. status is also a good idea. 

 

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