Hello!
I recently bought the aforementioned drive, one piece from one shop and another from a second shop, and both manifest the same issue. They vibrate rhythmically, making it all the louder because they vibrate strongly enough for it to ripple through my case and into my desk. I've had the second for 6 weeks now and it's only getting worse, now also making some sorta scraping sound. Performance is good, HDD tests come out "fine". Seeing how the second drive I got behaved just the same as the first, I assumed it was either normal for this drive - an otherwise fast and cheap drive - or that it might just stop misbehaving at some point. It isn't the case, it is still vibrating and looking to get worse. I've gone over Google repeatedly and I always find that it's supposed to be fast and silent - certainly not the case with my drive. I also have a Kingston SV300S37A60G SSD as Windows drive and a rapidly degenerating Samsung HD103SJ 1TB drive (a model seemingly plagued with controller issues, is 4 years old) which I was looking to keep as storage for which I would no longer care about its bumpy performance and constant need for defragmentation.
Furthermore, my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 v1. I do suspect some damage to the motherboard, seeing as some while back, my GTX 560 GPU died, possibly causing electrical damage to the motherboard and to the PSU. The PSU has since been changed, yet the motherboard doesn't actually cause any obvious issues. But the PSU was definitely smellin' of burnt when the GPU died, so there's that.
I'm considering taking the WD Blue HDD to warranty, though I will also check how it behaves in other people's computers. In the meantime, what do you people think of all this? Ask me any further details you believe you might need.
I recently bought the aforementioned drive, one piece from one shop and another from a second shop, and both manifest the same issue. They vibrate rhythmically, making it all the louder because they vibrate strongly enough for it to ripple through my case and into my desk. I've had the second for 6 weeks now and it's only getting worse, now also making some sorta scraping sound. Performance is good, HDD tests come out "fine". Seeing how the second drive I got behaved just the same as the first, I assumed it was either normal for this drive - an otherwise fast and cheap drive - or that it might just stop misbehaving at some point. It isn't the case, it is still vibrating and looking to get worse. I've gone over Google repeatedly and I always find that it's supposed to be fast and silent - certainly not the case with my drive. I also have a Kingston SV300S37A60G SSD as Windows drive and a rapidly degenerating Samsung HD103SJ 1TB drive (a model seemingly plagued with controller issues, is 4 years old) which I was looking to keep as storage for which I would no longer care about its bumpy performance and constant need for defragmentation.
Furthermore, my motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 v1. I do suspect some damage to the motherboard, seeing as some while back, my GTX 560 GPU died, possibly causing electrical damage to the motherboard and to the PSU. The PSU has since been changed, yet the motherboard doesn't actually cause any obvious issues. But the PSU was definitely smellin' of burnt when the GPU died, so there's that.
I'm considering taking the WD Blue HDD to warranty, though I will also check how it behaves in other people's computers. In the meantime, what do you people think of all this? Ask me any further details you believe you might need.