Storage drive really noisy?

[Guest]

Hi.

I recently upgraded to an SSD for faster boot times and in the hopes that my seagate barracuda 2tb hard drive would make less noise if it weren't an OS drive.

I've been having issues for a few months now where my barracuda is always making a noise as if its reading/writing. The noise doesn't sound unhealthy, just loud. I have no idea why it's making this noise as its just a storage drive which is rarely being accessed.

What could this noise be? Is there any way to make my storage drive idle when not in use?

Cheers.

 

[cdabc123]

check your bios to se if their are any settings you can modify if not that's just as loud as it is.

 

[Guest]

What kind of settings do I look for? Others barracuda's are much quieter, and mines isn't even a system drive, just a storage drive.

 

[cdabc123]

on my computer their is a option for running the hard drives more then normal and it makes it loader its under power management. If this is on a desktop you could just wrap the drive in foam to help the noise.

 

[jsmithepa]

How old is the drive? they do get noisier over time.

Do you have Windows' pre-fetch, super-fetch (indexing) whatever, turned on? may want to turn it off. Make sure you don't have Defrag on a timed schedule.

Then set your Power Setting to sleep (spin down) the drive, say after 10m of idle.

 

[Guest]

How old is the drive? they do get noisier over time.

Do you have Windows' pre-fetch, super-fetch (indexing) whatever, turned on? may want to turn it off. Make sure you don't have Defrag on a timed schedule.

Then set your Power Setting to sleep (spin down) the drive, say after 10m of idle.

It's just a storage drive so none of these options are selected/available (I believe - not entirely sure how to check). My SSD is my main OS/boot drive. Also, a year old.

 

[jsmithepa]

The options mentioned are not limited to the boot drive only.

 

[Guest]

The options mentioned are not limited to the boot drive only.

Maybe one (or more) of these are causing it, how can I check to see if prefetch/superfetch is turned on? Defrag is on a weekly schedule from that I can see - I've set my HDD to spin down after 1 min of idle, still doesn't spin down that quick. Maybe 5 mins and then spins back up 10 mins later even if I'm doing nothing (not accessing any files in that storage drive).


Edit: Opened up resource monitor, shows just "System" running and I've been watching it for the last 5 mins, Seems this is the culprit causing my hard drive to not spin down, but I don't know what it is nor why, as my OS is on my SSD and not on my HDD (assuming it's something to do with Windows as going to Properties leads me to system32).