- Jun 7, 2016
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I ruled out my WD Black Caviar from being the culprit after I had accurately listened and felt the edge of both hard drives when under load or when it started producing these grinding sounds. Immediately I noticed the grinding sound was coming from my Seagate Barricuda 1TB. (The hard drive is several years old, I believe 2010 or possibly older, ikr, pretty old).
Okay, so I never noticed this issue a few weeks before I had built my new gaming rig. I was still gonna use the same motherboard and hard drives from my previous rig, and so I just moved them over to my new rig. After I had finished the build, everything looked great, ran great, and sounded great, except when I began to load games or do anything that would make a hard drive do its job. For some odd reason I was hearing this semi-loud and noticeable grinding and gieger counter sound when casually gaming. It wasn't your typical loud hard drive that produced sounds similar to a gieger counter when under load, and I can only hear it whenever doing anything intensive like playing GTAV, DayZ Standalone, World of Tanks (had the longest and loudest grind sounds), Fallout 4, and even just leaving OBS Studio at idle, or loading/opening big files. I also sometimes hear it whenever i'm idle on my desktop, but it's very faint and lasts only a few seconds, unlike 30 seconds to a minute sometimes when gaming.
With my recent knowledge of common hard drive sounds, like grinding, high pitch buzzing, etc., I've heard that those are indicators of a dying hard drive. So I downloaded Data Lifeguard Diagnostic and ran some tests. It passed the SMART test when launched, and passed the quick test when prompted. I hadn't done the hour long test yet, but during the quick test I noticed the grinding sound, except it was very faint and lasted only a few seconds. I ran the test on my WD Black Caviar just to make sure, and it was also fine, didn't make a sound surprisingly considering its reputation (mine is ironically very silent). Yes, I made sure that the hard drive was properly placed and held together in my case, and no matter which slot I move it in, it still produces this sound. By itself the issue seems to be internal than external.
Please help me figure this out, is it something I can fix, is this an early sign of a dying hard drive, or am learning the definition of insanity?
Okay, so I never noticed this issue a few weeks before I had built my new gaming rig. I was still gonna use the same motherboard and hard drives from my previous rig, and so I just moved them over to my new rig. After I had finished the build, everything looked great, ran great, and sounded great, except when I began to load games or do anything that would make a hard drive do its job. For some odd reason I was hearing this semi-loud and noticeable grinding and gieger counter sound when casually gaming. It wasn't your typical loud hard drive that produced sounds similar to a gieger counter when under load, and I can only hear it whenever doing anything intensive like playing GTAV, DayZ Standalone, World of Tanks (had the longest and loudest grind sounds), Fallout 4, and even just leaving OBS Studio at idle, or loading/opening big files. I also sometimes hear it whenever i'm idle on my desktop, but it's very faint and lasts only a few seconds, unlike 30 seconds to a minute sometimes when gaming.
With my recent knowledge of common hard drive sounds, like grinding, high pitch buzzing, etc., I've heard that those are indicators of a dying hard drive. So I downloaded Data Lifeguard Diagnostic and ran some tests. It passed the SMART test when launched, and passed the quick test when prompted. I hadn't done the hour long test yet, but during the quick test I noticed the grinding sound, except it was very faint and lasted only a few seconds. I ran the test on my WD Black Caviar just to make sure, and it was also fine, didn't make a sound surprisingly considering its reputation (mine is ironically very silent). Yes, I made sure that the hard drive was properly placed and held together in my case, and no matter which slot I move it in, it still produces this sound. By itself the issue seems to be internal than external.
Please help me figure this out, is it something I can fix, is this an early sign of a dying hard drive, or am learning the definition of insanity?
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