Weird sound from my new seagate barracuda 1tb, video in the thread.

[thekillerlama]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcZUv9EGtHs

Here's a video of it. The initial click is me turning on the system, the sound comes about 5 seconds in. I don't know if something is wrong or not, it's been a while since last time I used an actual hard drive but I seem to remember that sound from before, but I want to make sure.

Thanks in advance for any replies. (And yes, I have after having bought the drive heard that Seagate might be the worst brand ever for hard drives)

 

[PiKe]

Absolutely normal.

 

[thekillerlama]

Thanks! Appreciate it! I really didn't want go through the RMA process during christmas so this was great.

 

[seagate_surfer]

The sound is produced when the drive boots up and thus it is normal. Also, you may download SeaTools for future testing purposes.