Seagate Backup Plus 8TB External HDD Review

[jimmysmitty]

I bet this Seagate makes really loud seeking noises when you slowly tilt the drive, like other Seagate drives. Drive from other manufactures do not have this behavior. Even happens with their mobile hard drives.

Why would you tilt a spinning, active HDD? That is a very bad idea as it could cause damage to the drive if the heads skip or even get misaligned. You should never move an active HDD.

Maybe if someone wants to move an external desktop drive in a different spot on the floor or table.
There is verification that the heads are reading/writing to the correct track with marker data (don't know official name).
It is fine if you do it slowly. The angular acceleration on the platters is very minimal and you'll find the SMART to be perfect still. Desktop drives are delicate as you know. Loud seeking because I think the drive stops ramping acceleration and deceleration curves because it goes into robust mode or something.

Mobile drives are tough, they are designed to handles tilts. Like a hard drive in the original ipod, laptop drives. I regularly keep my laptop on, fold it up, put against my side and walk around and put it back down on a table.. SMART on my Samsung M9T is still perfect, doesn't care. But a seagate mobile drive makes the loud seeking noises too when tilting or if it detects vibration.
I think it is designed that way on purpose, whereas other manufactures do not.

No spinning HDD is designed to fully handle movement. Any movement is a risk, even mobile drives. I had to replace 3 HDDs in a laptop within 6 months for one guy who would move his laptop while it was still on. And they were not cheap drives either.

Either way with any technology it is a risk to move a HDD while it is powered on and spinning.