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HDD - How Noisy is too Noisy?
HadjiQuest
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My new hard drive in my new machine is a samsung drive for the first time, after years of Western Digital drives. I'm not sure if the drive is actually as noisy as I think it is compared to my old ones, of if I had just been using them for so long before retiring my old PC that I just grew accustomed to their noise.
Basically, the drives always sound active, and have the same sound patterns and pretty much the same volume as a coffee maker during the drip cycle. Is my drive fucked, or are some drives just that way?
Basically, the drives always sound active, and have the same sound patterns and pretty much the same volume as a coffee maker during the drip cycle. Is my drive fucked, or are some drives just that way?
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You might want to check if your PC case is touching something that might be causing resonance. Otherwise I have 2 samsung spinpoint drives and they're super quiet.
The only quieter drives I know of are the Solid state drives in one of our new servers, which would essentially be noiseless if not for the pair of tiny fans on each one.
I've used Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital drives, and none of them have been that noisy. If you're not exaggerating with the coffee-maker-type volume, I would be a little concerned that there's a problem there....Have you noticed anything else, like long access times, freezes, file corruption, etc?
I assume you've already checked the obvious things like a loose screw where you mounted, vibrating against something, etc., but do so if you haven't.