WD2005FBYZ. Noise when PC is power off

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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Hi, guys.

I bought two drives 2000Gb Western Digital (WD2005FBYZ) 128Mb 7200rpm SATA3 Gold and make the RAID 1 array (motherboard - ASUS Sabertooth Z87). The hard drives works fine, but I get the long and loud noise when I power off my computer. This noise makes by both drives (I try to connect it separately one-by-one).

I make the video sample of this noise:

Can you help me with the information: what’s wrong with the drives? This is a warranty case?

Thank you.

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Hello MrPavlik,

I believe the sound that is generating when you power off the host computer is from the motherboard, there could be multiple reason for the issue that you have. I would recommend you to read the user manual of the motherboard.

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Rocky.S, I don’t hear this noise if WD hard drives are disconnected. This noise generated by WD hard drives. I can capture the video sample with disconnecting the drives if you want.

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Hello, dswv42,

Maybe you should try contacting WD’s Technical Support about this.

To Contact WD for Technical Support
http://support.wdc.com/support/case.aspx?lang=en

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Hello i’am French …
Sorry for my English :frowning_face:

I by WD2003FZEX for 4 days (amazon) and i have the same problem.

Amazon send me a new HDD yesterday and i have the same sound with the new HDD!!!

This noise comme from the HDD this is certain ! when i unplug the power suplly from the HDD
there is no longer this noise.

You are not allone :frowning:

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Same problem here, I have 2 WD HDD, Gold 2TB and Black 2TB, they both do this sound on power down, and I have 4 other WD HDDs that are ok, no strange sounds from them, I am trying to get an answer from a technician, but they keep sending me to troubleshooting page (sounds, test and so on…) that gives no results…

Here is my thread: https://community.wd.com/t/when-hdd-power-off-it-makes-moaning-noise/218183

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Does the video in the thread linked below have the same noise that you are getting: