Noisy 7200.10

wjfcomputers · 19 Oct 2006 at 09:53

I installed my Seagate 250gb 7200.10 a couple of days ago and I'm surprised by how noisy it is.

It gives off a constant high pitch noise and when it's being accessed the 'crunch' is extremely loud.

I actually bought it to replace my noisy WD drive, but that was silent compared to this!

Could it be faulty? HDTach shows that it's performing as expected so I don't want to risk returning it only for ocuk to say there's nothing wrong with it

gt_junkie · 19 Oct 2006 at 10:27

I had two barracuda's before i got some samsung spinpoints. They were/are loud drives. Not so much spinning but definately accessing! In contrast the spinpoints are near silent! Infact one doesn't even vibrate when powered up! Awesome!

If it's loud enough to bother you and you're not happy you still have a few days available to send it back no questions asked!

gt

wjfcomputers · 19 Oct 2006 at 17:43

The distance selling act doesn't cover opened and used items :-(

I'm convinced there's something wrong with it because it really is noisy when being accessed.

Can anyone else with a 7200.10 share their thoughts?

snarloas1982 · 20 Oct 2006 at 00:13

i have a terrible loud drive mate and i just bought it from ocuk, very unhappy with it had it for near 2 weeks now and its putting my head away. cant stand the constant crunching noise, yet people keep replying in threads mines is that and the other...... but at the end of the day i still have a noisey one and im glad your in the same boat as me just so that i can say im not the only one that has received a really noisey drive

Borden · 20 Oct 2006 at 16:11

Take it out of the case and rest it on something soft (a towel or the likes) and then power on your pc. If the noise is still there then there isn't much you can do about it i'm afraid as there are some versions of the 7200.10 which are noisy, you can read up on that in some of the threads about this drive at http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showforum=2. If the noise is gone then it's the hard drive causing the case to resonate. This can be fixed in a number of ways. One way is to buy an internal enclosure which should help to reduce noise. Another is to use rubber gromets to absorb the vibrations and my favourite method is to suspend the hard drive in a free 5.25" drivebay using sewing elastic.

I have all three of my hard drives (one of which is a 320GB 7200.10) suspended in this way and i can't hear any of them unless i put my head inside the case.

Hope that helps.

33L · 20 Oct 2006 at 16:34

there have been reports of noisey batches its just a shame that you landed with one of them.

HighlandeR · 20 Oct 2006 at 22:17

I once had 2 Seagates 300giggers SATAs and noticed one had a different chipset to the other and it was considerable noisy.... worked fine but was 2-3x more noisy then the other seragate.

Think it was an Agere chipset on the back....

Hearing good things about the Samsungs though... even though they can die sometimes.

totalllama · 21 Oct 2006 at 02:32

I own a Seagate 7200.10 320GB. It is as silent as a church mouse. Even when its doing overtime its inaudable.

Borden · 21 Oct 2006 at 08:11

As i said in my post above, there are two different versions it seems. I managed to find the thread where i read about this

Got to post #146:
http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22660&st=125

The two different versions use different motors and one of them seems to be louder than the other.

luminous · 23 Oct 2006 at 10:59

mark1 said:
I have all three of my hard drives (one of which is a 320GB 7200.10) suspended in this way and i can't hear any of them unless i put my head inside the case.

Don`t suppose you have any instructions/pics on how to do this? i have myself a new noisy raptor,cheers

Borden · 23 Oct 2006 at 11:11

luminous said:
Don`t suppose you have any instructions/pics on how to do this? i have myself a new noisy raptor,cheers

Sure. The pics are pretty much self explanatory.

My third drive is in the 3.5" drivebay. It was a tight fit and was much more difficult to thread the sewing elastic. I only did it because i ran out of empty 5.25" drivebays.

When i did mine, i used the below pic as a reference:

luminous · 23 Oct 2006 at 12:37

You`re a diamond mate,cheers

snarloas1982 · 23 Oct 2006 at 21:51

MIGHT ACTUALLY GIVE THAT A GO

hotdog · 24 Oct 2006 at 16:05

im not that creative , so i just bought a scythe hard disk silencer £7 - its not perfect by any means but it does make that seek noise less apparent. I can still hear the clicking when searching - but i just have too live with it!

Might be worth looking into, i was going to use the elastic method except i dont trust myself! I can understand why case manufacturers havnt designed something similar by now :confused:

Borden · 24 Oct 2006 at 17:18

I think there is a case that has the elastic suspension installed as standard. I've forgotten which one it is though.

wjfcomputers · 24 Oct 2006 at 19:19

Turns out the high pitch noise is coming from the motor on the drive and not caused by resonating on my case.

I put my old WD in and now I have peace again, what a waste of money!

Borden · 24 Oct 2006 at 19:29

wjfcomputers said:
Turns out the high pitch noise is coming from the motor on the drive and not caused by resonating on my case.

I put my old WD in and now I have peace again, what a waste of money!

Have a look at this thread below:

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22660&st=125

read post #146 and see if that helps. You may have one of the noisier motors described in that post in which case you can't do anything about it other than use a hard drive silencer/enclosure.

wjfcomputers · 24 Oct 2006 at 20:25

mark1 said:
Have a look at this thread below:

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22660&st=125

read post #146 and see if that helps. You may have one of the noisier motors described in that post in which case you can't do anything about it other than use a hard drive silencer/enclosure.

Yeah, just my luck.

Do you think OC would accept it as a return based on the fact that it's noisier than expected?

Borden · 24 Oct 2006 at 21:10

wjfcomputers said:
Yeah, just my luck.

Do you think OC would accept it as a return based on the fact that it's noisier than expected?

I'm not sure. They may only refund an unwanted item within 7 days of receiving it. You'd have to send them a webnote and ask.

http://contact.overclockers.co.uk/

So is it one of the noisy motor versions?