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Hard drive noise

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4x4expy

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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?
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: boyRacer
go download the utilities off WDs website and run a test on it...
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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.
 
some western digital drives are known to start making a high pitched whine after a while... but yeah back up your data asap
 
If you can just try to RMA it now while you can back it up. I'm told WD is very good about RMAs.
 
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