10TB WD Gold clicking.

IICIIEII · 8 Mar 2021 at 18:46

Hello!

I recently got one of those for my DAS and I have noticed that the guy clicks quite a lot, even in IDLE. Every few seconds you can hear the heads "riick, riick, riick...". But besides this, it turns out that speed is fine and I cannot find any errors with the unit. I have a couple of 8TB WD Red Pro around that do not click, and the same is true for a 8TB Seagate Exos. Do you think I should RMA this particular unit?

Thanks!

IICIIEII · 8 Mar 2021 at 23:37

OK, I reply myself to this question: it is a feature of the drive. I found it here:

https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14842

I think they should have documented this, at least include a note with the unit, because otherwise you just start hearing the clicks every 5 seconds and... :rolleyes:

IICIIEII · 10 Mar 2021 at 23:39

Probably not, because it is in an external enclosure

. But yes... all a bit anoying, I must say.

IICIIEII · 29 Mar 2021 at 16:31

Lately I got a couple of Toshiba Enterprise 12TB, just to compare. These definitely do not click but oh boy, they are loud when reading and writing

They remind me the old SCSI drives in the Silicon Graphics. I still have my O2 around with a 15K rpm hard drive and it is not much louder

IICIIEII · 1 Apr 2021 at 23:20

Oh yep, I you have a rack of those it needs to stay as far as possible

. Where I work, the cluster and racks are in the usual datacenter rooms, with aircons all the time and thick doors, and you can still hear the drives and fans if you walk nearby. To enter inside, you need to wear ear protection, it is unbearable otherwise :eek: