Seagate noies

RizGB · 2 Mar 2013 at 20:43

i have never had an hard drive like this its it doing my nut in

every 30mins or so that sound like its accessing like a beep/clicking sound its hard to explain

but i checked windows 7 resources and the drive is not even accessing

Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD

any ideas i flashed the latest firmware to no help

dneill2006 · 2 Mar 2013 at 21:08

I have a 2TB Seagate drive that does the same thing.

No need to worry though, it's just the head parking.

NZB · 2 Mar 2013 at 21:23

Check windows power management isn't turning the drive off after it's been idle for a certain time, if it is you'll be hearing it starting up all the time when you or a program accesses it. I only hear mine when the PC first posts, and i have 4 of the 2TB ones in there.

RizGB · 2 Mar 2013 at 22:22

NZB said:
Check windows power management isn't turning the drive off after it's been idle for a certain time, if it is you'll be hearing it starting up all the time when you or a program accesses it. I only hear mine when the PC first posts, and i have 4 of the 2TB ones in there.

cheers yeah i looked at the windows power management changed it to never switch off and switch off every 20mins

still does the crap just have to put up with it

dneill2006 said:
I have a 2TB Seagate drive that does the same thing.

No need to worry though, it's just the head parking.

cheers only segate does this happen with other drives

On Holiday · 2 Mar 2013 at 23:07

Same drive, horrible noises.

wazza300 · 2 Mar 2013 at 23:45

seagates have always been noisy,reliable esp the older drives but sound like a bag of nails

eddyr · 3 Mar 2013 at 10:18

BloodZeed said:
cheers yeah i looked at the windows power management changed it to never switch off and switch off every 20mins

Which one did you set, neveror 20 mins?

RizGB · 3 Mar 2013 at 12:59

the hard drive to switch off i put it to never