Hard drive noise

[4x4expy]

I have a WD 120gb 8mb se drive that is about 2-3months old and just this week I have noticed it making some rather odd noises. Usually (but not always ) during boot up, it will emit a short, less than 1sec grinding noise. It sounds something like what a loud floppy drive would make. Then it never makes another sound, its actually the quietest drive I've ever owned except for this new sound. I have noticed no changes at all in performance, no difficulty or slowdown during bootup. It's pcmark, and read speeds are unchanged.

Is this anything I should worry about, or to be expected?

 

[TheGrandHooHa]

I don't want to alarm you, but it may be on it's way to doing the click of death. Don't replace it yet or anything; just back up your data just in case it starts going downhill.

 

[boyRacer]

go download the utilities off WDs website and run a test on it...

 

[4x4expy]

Originally posted by: boyRacer
go download the utilities off WDs website and run a test on it...

Zero errors on the quick test and on the full surface scan. Windows picks up no errors on scandisk and says that it does not need defragged. I will be prepared if it goes out I guess. It just seems like it's working fine right now. The sound just bothers me.

 

[ethebubbeth]

some western digital drives are known to start making a high pitched whine after a while... but yeah back up your data asap

 

[MDE]

If you can just try to RMA it now while you can back it up. I'm told WD is very good about RMAs.