P300 2TB noise

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I bought a Toshiba P300 2TB drive about 3 months ago from ocuk.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tosh...rmance-hard-drive-hdwd120uzsva-hd-045-ts.html

About 2 months ago it started making a static/crackling sound once or twice a day for 30 seconds or so. CrystalDiskInfo, Windows error checking tool and Toshiba's own diagnostic tool do not report any problems and the drive seems to be working fine otherwise. It does leave me abit worried about the drive long term though. Everything important on it is backed up.

No other HDD I've used over the years have made this kind of noise, including 2 Samsung 1 TBs with almost 30,000 power on hours each. I'l try to capture a recording of the sound, it happens randomly though and I haven't mamaged a clear recording on my phone yet.

Should I just think about wiping the drive and sending it back? Thanks.
 
Drive is SMART healthy, even coming up clean on a quick error scan in HDTune (currently running a full scan).

HD Tune Pro: TOSHIBA HDWD130 Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 16 0 ok
(02) Throughput Performance 141 141 54 65 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 246 246 24 25782190358 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 0 867 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 5 0 ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 100 67 0 ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 124 124 20 33 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 100 100 0 3301 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 60 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 648 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 100 100 0 1140 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 100 100 0 1140 ok
(C2) Temperature 253 253 0 214748954647 ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 ok
(C7) Interface CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok

Health Status : ok
 
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