HDD Odd Noise

[The HopelessGamer™]

Bought a brand new HDD a few days ago and installed it lastnight: Seagate Ironwolf 8TB ST8000VN004 3.5in NAS Hard Drive

It is making this sound: https://youtu.be/JOG0_mAWIAA

Question: Is this a normal sound? It is not constant, it starts and stops with a fade in and out.

Drive is not in use when it happens. CrystalDiskInfo shows no errors or issues, Windows shows no errors and its fragmentation is 0%.

[Supafly]

Seagate Ironwolf can be noisy, expecially when copying files on and sync them in a NAS. But that's does sound rather odd.

Have a YT video I found last year when investigating noisy Ironwolfs I put in my NAS. Mine made the same sound as in this video. Jump to about 20 seconds in. Yours sounds the same just rapid in comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6kUBA03rw


As my drives were in a NAS I didn't bother trying the guys workaround as it'd be pointless for my purpose. You could give it a go. Though I'd probably be contacting the retailer to discuss sending it back for a replacement as it doesn't sound like a healthy drive to me.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Originally posted by Suicidal Monkey:

Seagate Ironwolf can be noisy, expecially when copying files on and sync them in a NAS. But that's does sound rather odd.

Have a YT video I found last year when investigating noisy Ironwolfs I put in my NAS. Mine made the same sound as in this video. Jump to about 20 seconds in. Yours sounds the same just rapid in comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6kUBA03rw


As my drives were in a NAS I didn't bother trying the guys workaround as it'd be pointless for my purpose. You could give it a go. Though I'd probably be contacting the retailer to discuss sending it back for a replacement as it doesn't sound like a healthy drive to me.

Is the drive from that video 5400rpm or 7200? Mine is 7200 how ever my other 3TB thats 3 years old has never made this sound... neither did the 1tb i replaced with the 8TB. Reading online it could be that the read arms are hitting a limiter...

[Supafly]

Originally posted by The HopelessGamer™:

Is the drive from that video 5400rpm or 7200? Mine is 7200 how ever my other 3TB thats 3 years old has never made this sound... neither did the 1tb i replaced with the 8TB. Reading online it could be that the read arms are hitting a limiter...

No idea about the video drives. Mine are the 7,200RPM Ironwolf Pro version and that sounds the same. None of my Barracudas make that sound and I've had 1, 2, 4 and 8TB drives. The noiseon the Ironwolf in the video and mine sounds normal for those drives, so I'm aware, I even called the retailer when I got mine just to be sure. Pro has 5 yr warranty so if it's normal I'm sure the drive can handle it.

Yours sounds like it's tapping 2-3x faster than mine or the YT video.

[Andrius227]

Thats why i only buy 5400rpm drives (wd reds). Much quieter. And the speed difference is not noticeable, as long as its not the OS drive.