- Nov 7, 2010
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I bought my first SATA hdd, a Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s internal drive. Got it installed, got the OS installed, got a bunch of other stuff installed, and it's working just swimmingly.
Except for one thing: It clicks every once in a while, and it's making me paranoid.
Not like a ticking "death click" but a single click followed by a quiet whirr, kind of like it does when I'm powering down the pc. It doesn't do it all the time, and it's not a "crunchy" click, just a mechanical "I'm-moving-my-arm-for-whatever-reason-click" I ran a quick SMART test, and it passed with flying colors, though I haven't tried the extensive one. I haven't had any read/write or bootup errors, either.
So, anyone out there with more experience in WD drives know if this is just a regular SATA sound? I'm used to my old IDE Maxtor drives making a lot of racket, but I'm unfamiliar with WD drives.
[Update]
For whatever reason, Win 7's default power settings was set to "Turn off Hard Disk" after 20 mins of idling. I changed the setting to "Never" and haven't heard the clicky sound since. I feel stupid, but I figure this would be of some help to someone else in the future with a similar question.
Except for one thing: It clicks every once in a while, and it's making me paranoid.
Not like a ticking "death click" but a single click followed by a quiet whirr, kind of like it does when I'm powering down the pc. It doesn't do it all the time, and it's not a "crunchy" click, just a mechanical "I'm-moving-my-arm-for-whatever-reason-click" I ran a quick SMART test, and it passed with flying colors, though I haven't tried the extensive one. I haven't had any read/write or bootup errors, either.
So, anyone out there with more experience in WD drives know if this is just a regular SATA sound? I'm used to my old IDE Maxtor drives making a lot of racket, but I'm unfamiliar with WD drives.
[Update]
For whatever reason, Win 7's default power settings was set to "Turn off Hard Disk" after 20 mins of idling. I changed the setting to "Never" and haven't heard the clicky sound since. I feel stupid, but I figure this would be of some help to someone else in the future with a similar question.
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