Periodic Noise from Head Movement WD Black 4TB

[BarnStomer]

@dobster

As far as your issues, I honestly think it’s routine and I wouldn’t bother sending the drive back, but that’s me. I have 8 of them and they all do it (my machines are in a rack in a computer closet so I can’t hear them). I have seen a few other threads online. Just search “WD PWL” or some variant and you’ll find some info. One guy mentioned that he had several drives from different manufacturing dates that all do it. So unless the sound is an annoyance, I’d probably just let it go.

My new drive is def. not making the same noises.
dswv42 just had 2 of the 4TB Golds replaced due to my findings and he is currently running diags on both but said the new drives have a totally different sound…
Here is a link to our posts on the forum:
https://community.wd.com/t/hard-drive-idle-sounds/199915/9