Question What is the weird noise this Seagate mobile HDD making?

[Ethan Knickerbocker]

Hey there. I have a Seagate Barracuda Mobile HDD that is 1Tb from my Lenovo Ideapad 320 15IAP. I recently upgraded the laptop to an SSD. MY Lenovo was making a weird noise, but when I took out the hard drive and powered it up with my SATA to USB bridge. I found out the hard drive is responsible for the beeping/grinding noise. Does anyone know what the noise is?

Link to noise (Google Drive Link): https://bit.ly/2ZEzGT4

 

[R_1]

the drive spins up, the clicking/beeping/grinding sound is the magnetic actuators moving the head, namely the click corresponds to the read write head movement from on location to another and on and on.
this is a normal sound for hard drives.
if you feel the drive may be failing or just want peace of mind, you can download seatools and run diagnostics on the drive.

 

[Ethan Knickerbocker]

Okay. Thank you very much. I did run SeaTools on it a few months ago and it said the drive was fine. I just wanted to make sure that sound was normal or not. I have hard drives that are 15 years older than this one and do not make a noise that sounds like that. Just wanted to be sure.