Weird HDD behavior

Sep 18, 2018
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For a few days now one of my hard drives has been making a sound similar to what it makes when turning off/on the computer, but during any disk usage, with random intervals. But it doesn't seem to create any system instability even though it's my boot drive.
No HDD checking programs showed anything wrong with it.
 
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"It does it multiple times a minute, and even when it's running at 100% continuously. Is that really normal?"


No, not multiple times per minute. You didn't mention that in your first post, you ought to post all relevant info in future please.
My first reply is totally irrelevant now so ignore it. My advice now is test it with either Seagate or WD diagnostics, and even if it passes I would still change it if it annoys you. Get a different make just to be safe.

Seagate SeaTools (any HDD brand): https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/

WD Data LifeGuard (WD HDD only): https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?DL

"No HDD checking programs showed anything wrong with it"

Then I reckon it's okay, probably just winding down & winding up again as required, which is normal behaviour. I hear my storage HDD (boot drive is an SSD) doing that several times a day and there's definitely nothing wrong with my HDD (I test it every month with WD testing software).
 
Sep 18, 2018
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It does it multiple times a minute, and even when it's running at 100% continuously. Is that really normal?
 
"It does it multiple times a minute, and even when it's running at 100% continuously. Is that really normal?"


No, not multiple times per minute. You didn't mention that in your first post, you ought to post all relevant info in future please.
My first reply is totally irrelevant now so ignore it. My advice now is test it with either Seagate or WD diagnostics, and even if it passes I would still change it if it annoys you. Get a different make just to be safe.

Seagate SeaTools (any HDD brand): https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/

WD Data LifeGuard (WD HDD only): https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?DL

 
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