WD Digital Black WD5000LPLX Internal Drive Failures

[dbott67]

Sorry to raise up a dead thread, but I stumbled across this thread while searching for an answer to why I’ve got a couple of beeping WD drives in a few dozen Optiplex 7040s. I’ve posted a couple of videos of the behaviour in my thread. Is this what you folks were seeing (hearing)?

Internal Hard Drive Beeps Intermittently

We purchased a few dozen Dell Optiplex 7040 systems and have found that the internal hard drive on a few of them beeps intermittently. The disk drive is a WD2500LPLX Black. The beeps are coming from the drive itself (not the internal speaker). After the computer boots into Windows the beeping can take anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours to start. The beeping continues every 30-60 minutes throughout the day. I have moved the disk over to other known-working systems and the beeping persis…

Were you ever able to resolve the issue?

Thanks.