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EDIT: After extensive research, I found out that it's okay for HDDs to make such sounds, due to moving parts. Experts are saying you shouldn't have to worry as long as your HDD health software shows healthy values. The strength of the sounds should be taken into consideration tho, in my case, it's a really quiet voice you actually have to listen carefully to be able to hear it.
So I've been hearing some weird grinding noises coming from my PC lately and I just noticed that it only happens during my daily backups and stops when the process is done.
The backup process is a small windows batch script that I wrote using Robocopy with the purge option in the background. Basically, it just keeps a mirror of my local development folder(s) on my other drive and auto-runs at a specific time every day.
I've attached a screenshot of the crystal disk info results below, HGST Drive is where my original folders are located at and WDC SSD is where I keep a backup of them.
Should I be concerned and get a new drive?
P.S: The temperature of the HGST Drive dropped back to 29 degrees celsius after the process was done, while the other drives remained the same.
So I've been hearing some weird grinding noises coming from my PC lately and I just noticed that it only happens during my daily backups and stops when the process is done.
The backup process is a small windows batch script that I wrote using Robocopy with the purge option in the background. Basically, it just keeps a mirror of my local development folder(s) on my other drive and auto-runs at a specific time every day.
I've attached a screenshot of the crystal disk info results below, HGST Drive is where my original folders are located at and WDC SSD is where I keep a backup of them.
Should I be concerned and get a new drive?
P.S: The temperature of the HGST Drive dropped back to 29 degrees celsius after the process was done, while the other drives remained the same.
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