Want to know if my HDD noise normal?

[shneekerpeeker]

My HDD makes a buzzing sound, it's not extremely loud. It's like a humming noise. I ran Seatools on it and it's passed all the tests, it's about 6 months old and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB Drive. Is this normal?

 

[okcnaline]

It sounds a bit weird. But then, since it's a HDD, it's probably running super fast and making the noise.

I would say it's no problem unless it's slowing down or crashing the OS.

 

[TyrOd]

A buzzing noise is NOT normal on modern Seagate drives, especially if it didn't make that noise before.

Make sure you have everything backed up if you haven't been doing so already.

 

[mickypheonix]

Hi schneekerpeeker ,
I agree with Tyrod this is not normal you may have a hard drive on its way out , my advice would be to backup any data that you want to keep and
replace that drive.
6 months old makes no difference , i have had HDD's dead on arival , some last 3months , some last 12 months others 10 years or more
If the hard drive is only 6months old you may be able to RMA it to the manufacturer.
1TB drives are fairly cheap these days so to replace it wont cost an arm and a leg

 

[shneekerpeeker]

I must emphasize that the sound is not very loud at all, it can only really be heard when your ear is close to the drive. It seem to be the spinning of the drive that cause the noise. Should a HDD be extremely quiet? What should a healthy Seagate sound like?

 

[mickypheonix]

Your drive sounds like it could be fine if it is not clicking or very loud and works ok , some drives are silent whilst others are noisy, you might want to download this and check out the health of your hard drive
http://download.cnet.com/CrystalDiskInfo/3000-2086_4-10832082.html

 

[okcnaline]

Try listening next to a Seagate Barracuda 7200.3 HDD. It's old, but got the same sound. Same with my dad's WD HDD and my Toshiba MQ HDD. All are OEM.

It's normal operation. Disks are running and can't run perfectly smooth (no sound, perfect reliability, perfect speed, etc.).