[SOLVED] Hard drive spinning excessively

[dushomirsky]

My hard drive a couple of days just started spinning really loudly and it does it randomly, want to ask whether this is normal behavior for a drive that's about 2 years old? The thing is its just spins for a bit then stops then returns after some random time so this really odd for me.

Thanks

 

[mdd1963]

Are you sure it's the drive you are hearing, vice perhaps the CPU fan?

Even if it is the drive (most spinning drives emit large scratching/chugging sorts of sounds during a bout of intensive reads/writes), WIndows often does quite a bit of housekeeping tasks in the background, file indexing, downloading WIndows updates (the 2nd Tue of the month update should be pushed out abotu now for many folks)....

A quick look at CrystalDiskInfo output on that drive should let you know if there are any issues in Smart status, etc...

 

[dushomirsky]

Upon further investigation (opening my PC and actually looking at it ) it's the GPU's fans that aren't functioning properly.