WD My Passport 1TB vibration - Read this if you have one

[M0RPH]

I just picked up one of these, it's one of the small portable drives. The first thing I noticed after plugging it in is that this thing vibrates like crazy compared to my other portable drive. My other drive is a Seagate FreeAgent 500GB and when I put my hand on it I can barely tell that it's on. When I put my hand on the WD Passport it vibrates my whole hand. The difference is huge.

The other strange thing is that if I turn the WD drive upside-down so the rubber feet are facing up, all the vibration goes away and it's just as dead still as my Seagate drive.

Anyway, I'm wondering if it's normal for these WD My Passport drives to vibrate so much. Anyone else that owns one of these drives, can you please tell me how much yours vibrates? And if yours vibrates too, does it also go away when you turn it upside-down?

I'm thinking about returning this and getting another Seagate drive, because I really don't like the way this thing vibrates so much.

 

[eelw]

Mine is silent. Never tried to turn it over.

 

[M0RPH]

Just to clarify, I'm not talking about noise... it is silent. I'm only talking about the vibration I feel when I put my hand on it.

 

[eelw]

Hmm, interesting. Yes, I feel the vibrations when I place my hand on it. And yes it goes away if turned over.

 

[razel]

Never owned that one, but I did notice that with 2 portable drives I previously owned, when the rubber feet side is down, that the drive inside is upside-down. This was with a SimpleTech (Hitachi) portable drive and the Kingston V100 series bundled external enclosure. The SimpleTech had a curved rounded top side and when upside-down it would rock back and forth, so you really wanted to have it upright, but the Kingston is stable either way. I found it interesting.