Noise from WD Caviar Black 750 and 640...please

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I had a new build from a repected shop in my town…

the first HD was the 750 and it died after 3 months on Pass 5 at 36% of a scheduled defrag… when I took my PC in the shop it got a “read element failure” within 3 seconds.

I just ate that one… because I was out of time for the NewEgg RMA and did’nt want to wait 2 weeks for a refurb from WD.

got a 640 in the same model and so far it’s ok but here is my burning question…

BOTH drives made “seeking” noises from the 1st time I turned them on…even clicking on IE would make the drive sound like 2 hampsters on the same wheel trying to run in different directions…is this noise normal?

I have this PC to basically be a $2,000 XBOX because all I do is game on it…even just setting at my desktop the HD will thrash around and the light will blink on the front of the case like I’m installing a program…I find it hard to believe I got 2 defective drives.

again…this one is making the same noise right out of the box as the other one…advice?

thanks !!!

chris

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Lets hope you dont have a 3rd dead one.

But I would be suspecious that the same computer ate 2 drives, have you taken steps to debug the main board if it’s at fault. Or some software (trojan/virus) trying to kill the boot sector of the drive.

Just a few thoughts for you.

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my 640gb sata 3 caviar black makes the same noise at every load of files. even on IE… don’t know if it is normal…

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I have the same problem with mine 640gb caviar black and its not older then two weeks

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despite the noises it seems to work fine so far.

but the noise is still there, a little bit annoying, and i think this disk is not designed to be absolutely silent…

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Yes it work fine but they say its a 113 mb\s and I only get 91.5mb\s so whats the problem here