Noisy HDD change

Mickcas · 12 Sep 2017 at 17:53

I've spent the last few weeks getting annoyed at what at first I assumed was fan noise from my power supply ( as the noise was coming from the power supply shroud) to the point I've almost went out and bought a new one. Now it's not a horribly loud noise but just a quiet but constant spinning which happens to be the loudest thing in my case.

Since swapping to a new case it turns out it's my Seagate 2tb HDD, unplug it and he noise goes away and the pc it's practically silent. Tried a old 300gb drive I had living around and it didn't have the second noise. Even taking it out the cage to ensure it wasn't just vibrating didn't help so I'm thinking of picking up a new one.

Are there any recommendations for a new HDD. 2tb is enough but something that is nice and quiet, it's just used for mass storage and I don't fancy paying out for a large SSD.

Glanza · 13 Sep 2017 at 09:11

Seagate Barracuda or the Ironwolf series. Drives get noisy over time depending on how much they are used, will be swapping my old 2tb out shortly for a 4tb ironwolf.

Mickcas · 13 Sep 2017 at 09:46

Glanza said:
Seagate Barracuda or the Ironwolf series. Drives get noisy over time depending on how much they are used, will be swapping my old 2tb out shortly for a 4tb ironwolf.

Thanks, it's a seagate that's in there but will be pretty old, it came with a second hand pc I bought.

Is it true that 2.5"HDDs tend to run quieter?

Glanza · 13 Sep 2017 at 10:19

Mickcas said:
Thanks, it's a seagate that's in there but will be pretty old, it came with a second hand pc I bought.

Is it true that 2.5"HDDs tend to run quieter?

Possibly can't say the noise difference between the 2 is that much, when a drive starts failing you'll hear it either way.

Grimley · 13 Sep 2017 at 19:01

If you have the space in your case, Bungee Mod that drive to silence it, better explained here.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/hdd-bay-bungee-mod.18269719/

Mickcas · 13 Sep 2017 at 19:39

Grimley said:
If you have the space in your case, Bungee Mod that drive to silence it, better explained here.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/hdd-bay-bungee-mod.18269719/

I did look at that, the problem is its not the norm vibration noise, or the noise when its in use. the noise it makes is even at idle. Ive had it out and in my hand etc and still make it

Mickcas · 14 Sep 2017 at 16:39

Well just ordered a new 2tb barracuda hopefully I'll get my silence back

bledd · 15 Sep 2017 at 21:24

The only true way to stop noise from hard drives is to put them in a NAS in another room.

If you have a virtually silent house, you'll always hear a hard drive in a room.

Mickcas · 18 Sep 2017 at 10:15

Well new HD is hear. Definitely an improvement that's for sure. But your right can still hear it so not complete silence but I'm happy.
Old one must have been clearly on its way out, somehow lost my steam library just last week.

GWANGY · 19 Sep 2017 at 16:27

Would have been good to see the stats on it eg how old it really was, pon/poff , in use hours etc.
Extra noise from a hard disc is a really bad sign .. really bad. I would have been buying a new disc the minute it happened.