How noisy should a hard disk be?!

[toonarama]

Hello all

My new PC arrived yesterday and so far I am very pleases (full review of my PCS experience to follow) but I have one question.

The PC runs very quiet and cool however the HD seems to make quite a lot of ("clattering") noise when it is being read from/written to. it is not a loud noise but is noticeable.

It does not bother me unless this suggests there is a fault; can anybody advise please (spec below)

Case - COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™i5-2400 Quad Core (3.10GHz, 6MB Cache)
Motherboard - ASUS® P8H67-M LX SI (NEW REV 3.0): M-ATX,
Memory (RAM) - 4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card - 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 460
Hard Disk - 640GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD6402AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
Power Supply - 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling - SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)

Thank you

Mick

 

[Gorman]

The Black's do have the traditional mechanical crunching noise during read / write. The only thing to be wary of is ticking followed by small freezes on the PC.

 

[toonarama]

Thanks Gorman - that's put my mind at rest.

I was stuggling for a term to describe - "mechanical crunching" is just about right!

 

[DeadEyeDuk]

One day we'll all have shiny 4TB SSDs and the world will be a better, happier, quieter, faster, snazzier...uhmm...place!

 

[BAD SANTA]

I have a caviar black and it does this too, don't worry about its just what these models do.

 

[Fear]

Just to put you even more at rest my 640GB caviar blacks were much noisier the first few days after they had been used and i put some music and games on them they have gone a lot quieter can still hear them but not too much.

 

[Gorman]

The old school raptors sounded not entirely unlike a coffee grinder.

 

[Fear]

The old school raptors sounded not entirely unlike a coffee grinder.

I must have been really lucky mine were quieter than the caviar black.

 

[Gorman]

The old see through top ones?

[video=youtube;0E8twKoHNag]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E8twKoHNag[/video]

crunch crunch crunch

wait til the end of the vid for the genuine raptor experience

 

[Fear]

I am going to have to check them next time i blast the dust out now.

 

[toonarama]

Many thanks to everybody - I am happy now!

 

[PokerFace]

Just to put you even more at rest my 640GB caviar blacks were much noisier the first few days after they had been used and i put some music and games on them they have gone a lot quieter can still hear them but not too much.

Does the hard drive sound quieter the more you turn the music up? I can hardly hear mine now, but the neighbours keep hammering on the wall for some reason! :hammer:

Oh, and this helps too :walkman:

 

[Fear]

Does the hard drive sound quieter the more you turn the music up? I can hardly hear mine now, but the neighbours keep hammering on the wall for some reason! :hammer:

Oh, and this helps too :walkman:

Oh is that what that other sound was i never really give it a second thought :whistling: