Should I send back this hard drive?

[WyattSoft]

I've recently brought a new Seagate 7200.12 1TB drive for my new gaming computer.

When it's in use (Activity) I get a noise like this but much louder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_jTL3ijXA

Should I send it back to eBuyer under it being faulty?

It passes the short tests in the SeaTools software.

[Allan]

I did not click on your link, but if the drive is making any unusual noise at all then yes, exchange it.

[WyattSoft]

Well, the noise it makes is like the noise the old Windows 95 era drives used to make, that crunching sort of sound.

I was just wondering if it was normal for a 7200.12 1TB, considering the 250GB 7200.10 in my HP is virtually silent.

[Allan]

Did the old drive sound like that? Hard drives should not make any such sound.

[Accessless]

That doesn't sound right. My HDD doesn't sound like that (Western Digital 1Tb drive). As you bought it from ebuyer I would send it back to be on the safe side. Nearly everything that I have ever bought from them has broken prematurely, but that's just my personal experience.

[WyattSoft]

If you're talking about the drive in my previous HP computer, then it's barely audible, you could just hear when it's reading/writing but it wasn't noticeable.

The new PC is a new build, the drive is loud and very noticeable.

I'll be returning the drive back to eBuyer and getting a Samsung F3 instead.

EDIT: Also to add, the hard drive does also vibrate quite a bit when it's making the noise.