Noisy Hard Drive 3 months old.

[SColie]

3 months old from PCS and the hard drive is clicking/noisy. Any ideas.. I have a video of it here... hopefully you can hear it.
Any thoughts??
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE

I say laptop in the video... please forgive me...🤷‍♂️
Thanks

 

[VirtualDevil]

Are your full specs in your signature there?
Do you have anything downloading or running off the HDD while this noise is being made or is it constant?

My immediate thought would be that it's just the mechanical HDD in use so they tend to make a noise.

Also, forgiven for saying laptop

 

[SColie]

Are your full specs in your signature there?
Do you have anything downloading or running off the HDD while this noise is being made or is it constant?

My immediate thought would be that it's just the mechanical HDD in use so they tend to make a noise.

Also, forgiven for saying laptop

Hi, This drive is usually silent when operating and being scanned. That's the only reason I noticed it... must contact PCS when I get a chance... 👍🏾.. and yes that is my spec in the signature..

 

[ColEyt]

To me it sounds like a hard drive that is being scanned by anti virus/malware, or in the process of writing a backup.

IE : it sounds fairly normal for any task that requires prolonged access to a mechanical drive

 

[ubuysa]

It might well be the search indexer at work. That runs when the PC is idle but it can really hammer the hard drive.

 

[SColie]

I don't understand why it has been completely silent since it was installed and now has started to make this noise?? It's so distracting, it's noisier than the fans! Nothing has changed and I regularly complete a sweep of the hard drive but now it's started this noise.... 😖

 

[SpyderTracks]

I don't understand why it has been completely silent since it was installed and now has started to make this noise?? It's so distracting, it's noisier than the fans! Nothing has changed and I regularly complete a sweep of the hard drive but now it's started this noise.... 😖

You need to look in task manager to see what’s writing to the disk.

 

[SColie]

You need to look in task manager to see what’s writing to the disk.

It has been confirmed by PCS that this drive should be silent when operating. They believe the mechanical seeking arm may be rubbing on something. They are going to send a new one for me to swap out.. Customer service at its best.. 👍🏾

 

[Citrus_9]

It has been confirmed by PCS that this drive should be silent when operating. They believe the mechanical seeking arm may be rubbing on something. They are going to send a new one for me to swap out.. Customer service at its best.. 👍🏾

Wonderful! 😍