Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM010 Hard noise

May 8, 2018
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Have an issue with this drive and the sound it makes, anyway it seems to be healthy but I would like somebody that know a little more about drives to check this out since I still have a guarantee.

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FYI, mechanical drives have a head on a moveable arm. When that arm moves back and forth rapidly you can probably hear it (my guess is the HD access light is showing when you hear the sound). A lot of 10k RPM drives do this more in comparison to slower drives, e.g. 7200 RPM (it isn't that faster or slower platters make noise, it is due to 10k using higher performance arms). The nitrogen or helium filled units are even louder (nitrogen and especially helium are better sound conductors). @kerberos_20 mentioned rubber mounts which probably would help a lot.
 
I guess it's all fine, I also own a very similar Toshiba P300 and it almost doesn't make any noise, but we'll call it Japanese technology, and even the performance is a little better, but you're the experts
Thank you everyone!
 
I can 100% relate to what you're going thru!
A few months back, I too purchased a Seagate HDD of the same series (was the 3TB version) and the noise it was making was driving me nuts!
Ended up buying a WD Blue one to replace it, and I'm quite satisfied with it.
Those Seagate guys just don't know how to make a quiet/reasonably quiet HDD no more!
 
It's hard to say from that recording, but if it is the clicking sounds I think I hear, then it is just the head seeking different cylinders. Data can be on different locations so far as where the head must be between outer radius and innermost radius. If a single file has tracks only on directly connected cylinders, then the head has very little seeking it must do and doesn't produce much noise in comparison to when the data is spread out across multiple cylinders. Having everything contiguous implies the disk is not "fragmented", having data spread around is not a bug, but is considered "fragmented". Performance suffers when data cannot be read continuously and must reposition the head for read/write. Defragmenting the drive is a software operation where Windows will attempt to take files spread out across the disk and consolidate them so the head doesn't have to seek as often nor as far. Both noise and performance would improve if the disk can be defragmented. Check out defragmenting for this disk. Some clicking is normal, clicking where the head assembly collides with something is not. Your recording can't differentiate.
 


It's not really the ticking per se, if you hear it carefully you can hear another sound that makes some kind of echo (at a little less than a quarter of the recording from the beginning to the end), that's the issue; the drive is also extremely defragmented and optimized.
 


Listened to the recording and it does not seem out of the ordinary. Nevertheless, back up your info just in case and because it is a good practice to do so.

 


The solution for me will be to use this disk just for data, and the toshiba for the OS, still thanks a lot for your help!