Hard Drive Sounds Like Coffee Maker

[PuuR]

For about a week now my hard drive has made a percolating noise such as a coffee maker, at first i thought it was the CPU fan but upon further inspection it seems to be comming from the hard drive. The drive is not a month old but was the cheapest hard drive i could find on pcpart picker cus my budget was low. It is still working fine but from what i have read that means it is bound to fail.. I have no clue what im doing when it comes to tech stuff so any input is very appreciated. The hard drive is:   HGST Ultrastar 3.5-Inch 1TB 7200RPM SATA II

[ProLogic]

2 minutes ago, PuuR said:

For about a week now my hard drive has made a percolating noise such as a coffee maker, at first i thought it was the CPU fan but upon further inspection it seems to be comming from the hard drive. The drive is not a month old but was the cheapest hard drive i could find on pcpart picker cus my budget was low. It is still working fine but from what i have read that means it is bound to fail.. I have no clue what im doing when it comes to tech stuff so any input is very appreciated. The hard drive is:   HGST Ultrastar 3.5-Inch 1TB 7200RPM SATA II

 

Might want to return it for a refund and get a WD or Seagate drive, the are much higher build quality and are worth the extra cash.

[Xanthe_2871]

I would avoid going cheap on anything crucial to the machine, like a hard drive! I would recommend you move you data to a drive from a known brand like WD or Seagate! Don't even risk losing your data!

[malon]

Assuming your and my coffee maker make the same sound i would return it since my coffee maker sounds half like somrone drinking with a 10 feet straw and half someone drowning when it is turned on, that isnt a sound any component in a pc should make

[SCHISCHKA]

so it does not make good coffee?

[Wolther]

3 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

so it does not make good coffee?

I'm sure the spinning platters are good at grinding up coffee beans 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Did you install java?

/s

 

Check smart data

[ProLogic]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Did you install java?

/s

 

That is a horrible joke

[PuuR]

Alright thanks guys i guess ill have to attempt to return it and get a better one.

[PuuR]

would this be a good one to go for? https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Cache-Desktop-Drive-WD10EZEX/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1480107919&sr=1-2&keywords=1tb+hard+drive 

I dont have much money so i cant afford one over 60$ max. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

22 minutes ago, PuuR said:

Alright thanks guys i guess ill have to attempt to return it and get a better one.

Well is the smart data (download crystaldiskinfo) concerning?

[PuuR]

3 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Well is the smart data (download crystaldiskinfo) concerning?

wat

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, PuuR said:

wat

http://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfoInstaller-en

 

Download this, tell me what your drive looks like

 

For example...

This is fine

 

This isn't

[PuuR]

3 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

http://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfoInstaller-en

 

Download this, tell me what your drive looks like

 

For example...

This is fine

 

This isn't

http://prntscr.com/dbt7nb 

says its good, but i already got the go ahead from the company to return the product so im going to return it and get a better drive. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

22 minutes ago, PuuR said:

http://prntscr.com/dbt7nb 

says its good, but i already got the go ahead from the company to return the product so im going to return it and get a better drive. 

Well, its got very little use on it and the smart data is good, hitachi drives are generally pretty solid, I'd say the noise was just a normal sound

[PuuR]

3 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Well, its got very little use on it and the smart data is good, hitachi drives are generally pretty solid, I'd say the noise was just a normal sound

The noise is constant, as soon as i turn the computer on and until i turn it off. Also i just noticed that while i played games such as the new need for speed and battlefield 1 the usage goes up to 99%. 

[Mornincupofhate]

20 hours ago, PuuR said:

The noise is constant, as soon as i turn the computer on and until i turn it off. Also i just noticed that while i played games such as the new need for speed and battlefield 1 the usage goes up to 99%. 

Yeah, that's what a hard drive does, it spins and makes noise. All of my past 5 hard drives sounded like they were raping the side of my case, which is why I switched to an SSD.

 

As for the CPU usage, it's fine, especially for high end games like those.

[PuuR]

On 11/26/2016 at 10:20 AM, Mornincupofhate said:

Yeah, that's what a hard drive does, it spins and makes noise. All of my past 5 hard drives sounded like they were raping the side of my case, which is why I switched to an SSD.

 

As for the CPU usage, it's fine, especially for high end games like those.

i can literally feel the virbation from it in my desk and it will move my mouse a little bit if i put it off the mousemat lol. The computer isnt on my desk either.... I already sent it back and ordered one from WD.

[Mornincupofhate]

1 hour ago, PuuR said:

i can literally feel the virbation from it in my desk and it will move my mouse a little bit if i put it off the mousemat lol. The computer isnt on my desk either.... I already sent it back and ordered one from WD.

All of my WD blacks shook my case. Buy a cheap 256 gig SSD and put your OS on it then use your hdd for game storage and what not.

[Sleeper PC 2016]

i had hdd's that made coffeemaker sounds, almost grinding sound with really old ones, but its fine. Your data is not at risk, the drive is just noisy