[SOLVED] "Scratching" sounds from HDD

[Werchiel]

I've read that scratch sounds comming from HDD are usually a sign of a dying drive, but this is a new PC (only has about 2 weeks) - it was bought pre-built however.
Is this a faulty drive? How can I make sure? I tried using DiskMark but I think I just don't understand how it works. My OS is on a sepparate SSD so that should at least be safe.
Or I'm just being paranoid? My last 2 pc's didn't even have an HDD and I ran them purely with SSD's so I'm not used to it's sound.
This is how it sounds:

edit: checked health via cmd and error checking and it didn't show anything wrong.
edit2: I downloaded the wrong app from crystal disk... got the right one now - https://prnt.sc/waxbb9
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHK_6DCifg

 

[mitch074]

That's normal HDD noise. Don't worry.

 

[Werchiel]

Thank you a lot, I know I sound paranoid but I'm always unlucky and everything I buy has some sort of flaw.

 

[mitch074]

Thank you a lot, I know I sound paranoid but I'm always unlucky and everything I buy has some sort of flaw.

I get what you mean, but I've dealt with pretty much all kinds of HDD failures for hardware built these past 3 decades (from Winchester 30 Mb behemoths that made the noise of a plane taking off to IDE Bigfoot and UDMA IBM Deathstar up to last generations 8 Tb He8/10 drives), I can tell you this: your HDD is currently healthy. If you don't get very long freezes (I mean 2-3 minutes where nothing but the cursor moves on screen and the HDD LED stays solidly lit for the duration) in the next 3 months, your HDD will do you at least 3 years of use. After that time, it's a matter of making sure no dead sectors appear with a disk check once in a while.
And that's me being paranoid about my data.