I've just been using them in raid 0 for a couple days now, and today I just noticed that they seem to make a strange noise when under heavy load. Its not really loud, but its kind of annoying. I've never owned a 10k rpm drive before, so I was wondering if this is normal. They seem to work very well, but its strange that I just start hearing it today. They've been totally silent when installing windows and stuff.
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WD Raptors making a grinding noise.
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mechBgon
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Maybe the clutches are slipping 😀 ...j/k! 😉
So this is different than a normal seek noise, then? Sort of a grrRRRrrRRRrrrRRR instead of the usual tickety-tick seek noise? My Cheetah X15-36LP makes some really interesting growls that don't sound like normal seek noise, when it's working over a large Zip file to make a self-extractor out of it, for one example.
So this is different than a normal seek noise, then? Sort of a grrRRRrrRRRrrrRRR instead of the usual tickety-tick seek noise? My Cheetah X15-36LP makes some really interesting growls that don't sound like normal seek noise, when it's working over a large Zip file to make a self-extractor out of it, for one example.
U might be able to adjust ur seek times with certain tools, and you could see if lowering it helped at all.
Something I noticed I don't know how accurate this is, but drives seek wise tend to be noiser with more data on them becuz they often times have to seek farther and that means it has to move the needle thing farther faster. Vs when u got a small partt filled up it barly needs to move. Once again I don't know if this is accurate just a guess from experience with hard drives, so no one flame on me please 🙂
-Mark
Something I noticed I don't know how accurate this is, but drives seek wise tend to be noiser with more data on them becuz they often times have to seek farther and that means it has to move the needle thing farther faster. Vs when u got a small partt filled up it barly needs to move. Once again I don't know if this is accurate just a guess from experience with hard drives, so no one flame on me please 🙂
-Mark
