Bought a new Seagate 4tb Backup Plus a few weeks ago during a half price sale as i thought 4tb hdd for 75 quid down from 140 ish, hell yeah.
Anyhow when it accesses the drive i notice a slight crackle noise but when idle its nice and quiet.
Ive filled about 3 quarters of it now with stuff from my old hdds as they were all almost full and really needed moving to a larger drive so they had some space back to get some speed again as you know if there full their speed suffers.
So yeah. Should i be worried or not about this slight crackle kinda noise. Maybe cos of my internals are quiet and unnoticeable that i just forgot that hdds make a noise or should this external be quiet all the time and make no mechanical noises at all?
For example i go in to the hdd through my computer, i click on a folder i hear a click noise or somit, when i click on a episode of somit to watch on the drive its quiet enough, and im just transferring a 5gb film from it to one of my internals and it didnt make much of a noise there either, but say hd pro, if i do a quick scan its very noticeable also if im transferring a large amount of files from a internal to the external then that usually makes the noise crackle.
I have checked hdd failure noises online but they dont seem to be like what im experiencing. Or do most external hdds make this noise and i only hear it now because its my first external and with it being so close to me and out of the computer i hear what hdds usually make with noise?
Anyhow when it accesses the drive i notice a slight crackle noise but when idle its nice and quiet.
Ive filled about 3 quarters of it now with stuff from my old hdds as they were all almost full and really needed moving to a larger drive so they had some space back to get some speed again as you know if there full their speed suffers.
So yeah. Should i be worried or not about this slight crackle kinda noise. Maybe cos of my internals are quiet and unnoticeable that i just forgot that hdds make a noise or should this external be quiet all the time and make no mechanical noises at all?
For example i go in to the hdd through my computer, i click on a folder i hear a click noise or somit, when i click on a episode of somit to watch on the drive its quiet enough, and im just transferring a 5gb film from it to one of my internals and it didnt make much of a noise there either, but say hd pro, if i do a quick scan its very noticeable also if im transferring a large amount of files from a internal to the external then that usually makes the noise crackle.
I have checked hdd failure noises online but they dont seem to be like what im experiencing. Or do most external hdds make this noise and i only hear it now because its my first external and with it being so close to me and out of the computer i hear what hdds usually make with noise?
