Question Seagate Exos 7E10 10TB and Exos 7E8 4TB make geiger counter sounds - - - - is this normal ?

[rcgrph7702]

Is this normal?

The HDDs are connected to a MacBook Air M1 via a USB C HDD enclosure.
Stardom i310-B31

I connected with Seagate Support and the customer agent says that it needs to be replaced.

For people who cannot see the video please view it here: Imgur Link

https://imgur.com/a/geiger

 

[helpstar]

check the drives with the seagate tool
sounds like a normal HDD sound while reading/writing

 

[rcgrph7702]

check the drives with the seagate tool
sounds like a normal HDD sound while reading/writing

seagate tool available for mac?

I checked it is not available. Any alternatives?

 

[helpstar]

try seatools bootable

 

[Misgar]

You might try the trial version of Hard Disk Sentinel (on a Windows system if you have one).
https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php

 

[USAFRet]

If the Seagate guy says replace....then you replace it.

 

[rcgrph7702]

You might try the trial version of Hard Disk Sentinel (on a Windows system if you have one).
https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php

Hi, I checked this. and it says 100% health
HDD is perfect. But I haven't performed any tests. Can you guide me what to do now?

 

[das_stig]

Big/datacenter storage drives do make a lot more noise than consumer drivers due to the heads/arctuator arms etc moving around and do click and squeak. My 8x SAS disks in my servers click, clunk and squeak all the time and most are now 11 years old and so far are in perfect health.

 

[rcgrph7702]

Big/datacenter storage drives do make a lot more noise than consumer drivers due to the heads/arctuator arms etc moving around and do click and squeak. My 8x SAS disks in my servers click, clunk and squeak all the time and most are now 11 years old and so far are in perfect health.

This gives me a lot of hope. Thank you.
I was going insane. It happened only when data is being read/written from/to the drives.
Regardless segate support said it will replace since they are under warranty but I don't want to go through the hassle as they are very new. Thank you again.