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WD Red Plus 6TB strange noise

Hi everyone,

I am leaving here the link to you hear the noises that my disks started to make today.

This is strange, this noises started today and I do not see any disk activity during the sound. Hearing the sound seems the disks are spinning up and making noises with their head. The noises from the audio file have a cycle of 3 times and they stop. Now have passed 1 hours and no noises.

I do not see any errors from my SMART test made this evening.

If this sound is normal, what is happening? If not normal, how can I confirm there is a problem to return it?

Thank you in advance.

Hi @Core2Fire,

Please refer to the article Western Digital Hard Drive Noise:

not sure how to start a new topic so I will ask my question
I have a brand new wd red 6tb was 3 hdd its my second one in 3 days
I just cannot get it to show up on pc its not in bios or disk management all other drives show up they are all old drives are there ne w drivers for these new wd drives
hope you can help
Daniel

Get CrystalDiskInfo and set it to monitor your disk(s). It can be set to run at startup so it can check disk health. Hard disks are noisy by nature while a SSD is quiet,

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