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I too suspect the "noisy" drive is on its last legs and could ail at any time.
Check in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings, Change advanced Power Settings under Hard Disk. Make sure it is set to Never power down.
Data recovery is no problem its only a recording drive to the files only stays for like 2 days, so i write, read, and delete very often so its nothing that im affraid of loosing, And well.. the harddrive is about 4 years old but i dont whant it to fail, i need that drive
But if it fails in the future i will get a 500gb sshd or just a regular hdd with around 500gb . depends on the prizes, if they are godd i might get a 1tb drive, but if the drive can whitstand another year i would be very happy
Ok, I see, you must be one of those who is very easily annoyed by even the smallest sound? My machines would drive you nuts then, I don't mind the quiet hum of 6-8 fans or a HDD thumping along in their work. :)
You can still try the Never power down to confirm it is that drive? I'm OCD about having things happen quickly and not waiting for a drive to spin up.
my nzxt phantom case has 9 fans currently installed with them all set high on the speed controller ^_^ nothing a pair of noise cancelling headphones cant fix lol. it also acts like a radiator under my desk blowing out a nice stream of warm air lol
Sisrace I would recommend you replace the drive soon as possible. The prices here in the US at least, have dropped back to normal.
The type which will power off on its own may be helpful for your application.
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Well, im thinking of another sshd on like 1tb or 500gb becouse i love the speed of thoose things and they are amazing for regording, but it also would be very helpful with like a green drive that spins down... so i can have my computer silent becouse sure i have some crazy noise cancelling headphones but i only use them while recording becouse its a lot more comfy with just using the speakers..
I know this thread is old but i have had this Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB hard for i believe 5-6 years and since day one it had this strong fading vibration noise. Just like you explained in your first post it slowly fades in, lasts 3-4 seconds, and slowly fades out again, 1-2 secs later and it fades in again.
I've used computer cases which totally couldn't handle these vibration and maked the noise 10x worse.
I've learned to live with the noise but just now i wanted to see if this is actual normal behavior for a hard drive and what the cause of this weird fading is but this is seemingly the only thing i could find in google about this "issue". Furthermore besides these weird vibrations over the course of using this hard drive for 5-6 years daily i've never had any other problem with this drive.
Btw just noticed you also were talking about a 500GB hard drive, also a Western Digital by any chance?