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Western Digital HD Shutdown Noise?

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Compudork

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I just purchased a Western Digital SATA drive from Newegg. I haven't had any specific problems and it came back clean when I scanned it for bad sectors, etc. but my concern is whenever I shut down my computer, the hard drive sounds like it shuts down "hard". Its difficult to explain, but it makes a sort of click and its almost like I can hear it wind up/down very breifly. I've only used Seagate before this, so I'm just wondering if this is a characteristic of WD drives or if I potentially have a problem here...

This is the specific drive

Any comments are appreciated!

 
It is normal. I have two drives like yours installed on my system. So i think it's normal. They work maybe 6 months and nothing is wrong so far.
 
Thanks for the reply - I assumed this is due to normal head parking at shutdown, but wanted to get some real world input as to whether other people experience this with their WD drives.
 
Yep, its probably the heads parking. My system and its 6 HDs makes a lot of noise when it finishes shutting down. I assume its all the heads parking at the same time.
 
I went through the exact same paranoia phase when I first got my WD HDD too. After rigorous googling, it says somewhere on the WD website that it's just head parking as others have noted.
 
Apparently it varies by model, but the WDC drive that I have now never makes any clicking sounds. One that I had in the past did, but it failed soon after I installed it.
 
It's not the same. Clicking sounds are caused by electronics failure. When there is power shortage to the head it clicks back in place.
The head is driven by a powerfull magnets. And when power is gone the head sticks to the magnets and clicks one single time. When there is click after click that is a power to the head failure and most likely the disk will fail very soon.
 
I got 5 drives in my comp and when ever it shuts down it sound like someone droped a brick inside of it 😛. So i guess it should be normal.
(got 4 WD drives)
 
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