Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: WyattSoft on February 16, 2010, 02:10:49 PM
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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.
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I did not click on your link, but if the drive is making any unusual noise at all then yes, exchange it.
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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.
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Did the old drive sound like that? Hard drives should not make any such sound.
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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.
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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.