Noisy hard drive, any solution?

[buri]

hi, i have 2 * 4 TB WD Red NAS drives in my QNAP NAS, one of them i purchased it brand new and other is used. Used one i have purchased has less usage hours and no problems whatsoever however when its working, its way louder than the other one, way louder i think, check the video below pls. any solutions to make it quite? or i need to change it to a new one?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTBRwQcVYk

[Ashleyyyy]

it could have been dropped.. with used drives you never know. 

 

all i know is that noise in hdd's is a sign it might be breaking.. 

[GoldenLag]

Have rubber bands around the HDD. (On where the mounting is) That way the sound from the HDD wont reverbarate (is that a word?) Through the chassis and make them louder.

 

Ive not seen the video

[wojtepanik]

I say buy a new one, noises are a sign of mechanical failure, If you want to rely on it should change it for new one

[Christophe Corazza]

QNAP has a built in SMART test in the OS that lets you find out the health of a drive. I would highly recommend running that test to see what you’re dealing with.

 

However, if I were you, I wouldn’t bother and immediately replace the drive. Your data should be more valuable than the risk of running a during drive, no? Any HDD that makes a strange noise is a warning for what might be coming. And you are lucky that the drives makes a warning sound since that is not always the case.

 

Have you set up the too drives in RAID?

RAID 0 (hopefully not) or RAID 1? If it is the latter, replacing the drive is just a matter of swapping the old one with the new one.

[thedude4bides]

Holy hell thats loud!  I have two reds in a synology and they're nearly silent.  

 

Buying used drives is a gamble.  Best to shuck an easystore from Best Buy to save some coin on reds.