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G-RAID noisy drives

Hey there,
I just purchased and set up a G-RAID Thunderbolt 3 with WD Ultrastar drives. The drives seem very noisy when reading and writing. I have a run a Softraid certification which came up with zero errors and the unit is working perfectly I just thought I would jump on here and see what other people’s experiences are. My other external HD’s are nowhere near as noisy as the ones in the G-RAID.

Below is a link to recordings of the sounds (not great quality as recorded with my phone. Are these normal sounds?

(Dropbox)

Thanks for your help people.

They are normal sounds, some drives are just louder than others and these are the standard chirps and hums.

Ok, thanks for putting my mind at ease Rydia. I’ll just have to turn up the tunes!

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