Western Digital External Harddisk Has Sort Of Like Tickling Kind Of Noise

[HiewKimLian]

My Western Digital External Harddisk has certain sound like tickling kind noise on and off, I don't like to hear that, what I worry most is about my important data. Can someone help???

 

[ulysses35]

Most HDD's make a small amoutn of noise while being accessed for readt / write operations. Some are noticably noisier than others.

Im not sure about the WD drives but you can change the performance / noise of some brands of drive with a small application downloaded from the manufacturer. The noisier the drive the fast it is working.

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=6&lang=en

 

[ampedal]

My Western Digital External Harddisk has certain sound like tickling kind noise on and off, I don't like to hear that, what I worry most is about my important data. Can someone help???

This is quite normal. Regardless, you should be backing up all your important data either online, on another disk, on a CD, etc.

If you don't want to hear clicking noises, purchase a Solid State drive, or make sure that your next laptop has only SSDs