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HDD, formerly boot drive, now a data drive - has become very noisy!
I have a HDD that used to be the boot/OS drive for my Win7 tower pc. I installed a SSD as the boot drive (fresh install of Win7) and moved the HDD from SATA-0 to SATA-1 to use as a data drive.
I moved some of the user folders to the HDD: Downloads, Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos.
Strangely, the HDD is much more noisy than I ever remember it. It sounds like it is constantly being read (or written to). It's a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drive and I ran the SeaTools tests (SMART, short self-test, short generic test), and it passes all these tests. It's physical location in the tower wasn't changed, and I never removed it from the tower when adding the SSD.
Any ideas on what might be going on, or how I can better diagnose this?