Hi all,
Im new here as i need another opinion on some issues i am having. I recently purchased a WD Green 3tb Sata HDD to replace my old and on the way out 500gig and 1TB drives.
What i have done is created 6 GPT partitions on the drive of all different size to accomodate my previous setup to prevent any major reconfiguring of my OS. You know move the data, Change to letters to the corresponding drives that they used to be and then ensure shortcuts are correctly pointing to their respective places.
Anyways my question is, now i have all the data migrated and my system back up to its previous state with all the data intact i am experiencing alot of platter / HDD noise when my system is accessing any one of these partitions i have setup. Now normally this would not concern me as ive had HDD`s that have been noisy before but this noise im hearing just doesnt seem right. Before people say RMA the drive i have some information i`d like to give.
I`ve run both the WD diagnostic tool in extended mode on the drive (7hrs) and also run HDTune across the drive and all are reporting fine.
The strange thing i have noticed is when i am running these scans the 3TB is under full load and does not make one sound. The only starts when i access the data on one of the partitions.
I`ve done my research and as far as i can tell GPT is the partition to be using with the 3TB series as MBR is only supported to 2TB.
I did put a support ticket into WD and they basically told me multiple partitions on a single drive are unsupported.
Does anyone have any tips / ideas on why this drive is so noisy.
Im new here as i need another opinion on some issues i am having. I recently purchased a WD Green 3tb Sata HDD to replace my old and on the way out 500gig and 1TB drives.
What i have done is created 6 GPT partitions on the drive of all different size to accomodate my previous setup to prevent any major reconfiguring of my OS. You know move the data, Change to letters to the corresponding drives that they used to be and then ensure shortcuts are correctly pointing to their respective places.
Anyways my question is, now i have all the data migrated and my system back up to its previous state with all the data intact i am experiencing alot of platter / HDD noise when my system is accessing any one of these partitions i have setup. Now normally this would not concern me as ive had HDD`s that have been noisy before but this noise im hearing just doesnt seem right. Before people say RMA the drive i have some information i`d like to give.
I`ve run both the WD diagnostic tool in extended mode on the drive (7hrs) and also run HDTune across the drive and all are reporting fine.
The strange thing i have noticed is when i am running these scans the 3TB is under full load and does not make one sound. The only starts when i access the data on one of the partitions.
I`ve done my research and as far as i can tell GPT is the partition to be using with the 3TB series as MBR is only supported to 2TB.
I did put a support ticket into WD and they basically told me multiple partitions on a single drive are unsupported.
Does anyone have any tips / ideas on why this drive is so noisy.
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