WD Gold 12TB makes a LOUD clicking noise once per second. How do I turn this off?

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I have a WD Gold 12TB disk, WD121KRYZ-01W0RB0, with 9.5TB free.

Every second, it makes a super loud clicking noise. I have tried disabling indexing and every other software trick I could find. I attempted to “standby” and “stop” the drive, which did not work. I can’t use APM or AAM, either.

Is this PWL? If so, how do I stop this noise?

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What disk do you have?

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try the disk optimizer in windows and see if that helps

I still have a WD15EADS that still works, I recall all the woes with XP users as this disk used the 4K format that XP is too old to understand

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The windows 10 utilities had no effect on the noise.

I had to turn the drive off to get the noise to go away.

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I have also noted some loud disks. Worst was the Fujitsu I had back the IDE days as tested with my SPL meter. My Toshiba disk was a bit noisy bit it has quieted down as the disk puts on my hours.