Hello, I just bought a brand new WD Caviar Black 1 TB and installed Windows on it as my boot disk. It was then (when the computer was booting) that I noticed that the fast high pitched clicking, the normal noise that hard drives make, was much louder than the noise that my old Caviar Blue made. I could slightly hear this noise through my noise cancelling headphones. The computer seems to perform fine, though.
But the most annoying noise comes with the high pitched clicking. There is also a bass clicking, quieter but definately not something i've heard in any other drive before. So this drive has a dual tone noise, which I couldn't find anywhere on the internet.
Since both of my drives are 7200 RPM, I figure that the noise difference between the two shouldn't be all that dramatic, so I just wiped the drive and prepared to use that 5 year warranty to my advantage. But just asking out to the community; How loud are these drives SUPPOSED to be, compared to, say, a Caviar Blue.
But the most annoying noise comes with the high pitched clicking. There is also a bass clicking, quieter but definately not something i've heard in any other drive before. So this drive has a dual tone noise, which I couldn't find anywhere on the internet.
Since both of my drives are 7200 RPM, I figure that the noise difference between the two shouldn't be all that dramatic, so I just wiped the drive and prepared to use that 5 year warranty to my advantage. But just asking out to the community; How loud are these drives SUPPOSED to be, compared to, say, a Caviar Blue.