Little question regarding WD Green 1TB

[alxcsb]

Just got the HDD mentioned in the title. Works well, but every now and then it makes a slight click noise. The PC doesn't freeze, continues to function normally. I know this sort of HDD parks the heads as often as it gets the chance, so I'm assuming that's where the click is coming from, but I just wanted to be sure. HD Tune also says that the HDD is error free and functioning within parameters. Thank you.

 

[airdeano]

its an enabled "green switch" to conserve energy. you mainly hear this at idle performance
or a data transfer?

 

[alxcsb]

It never really sits at idle, always does a bit of transfer. The noise is quite random, very inaudible, if I have music turned on, or aren't very close to the rig I can't hear it.

 

[alpenwasser]

The WD Green's are notorious in the Linux community for parking their heads after
~7 to 10 seconds of inactivity every chance they get. Due to some implementation
differences in how the O/S interacts with HDD's, this wears them out insanely fast
under Linux.

Anyway, I presume you're using windows, but the Greenpower feature suite will
still try to park the heads quite often as far as I know, so I think it's not unrealistic
that it might be coming from there.

Have you run any diagnostics on the drive?

 

[alxcsb]

Yeah, HDtune seems to find it in perfect health, and as I mentioned earlier, it does not exhibit any sort of abnormal behaviour, apart from this clicking. I've had silent drives, I've had really loud ones that crackled every time they needed to pull some data, but I never had one that just clicks sometimes, which is why I asked you guys about it. Thank you for the replies.

 

[Roooker]

Sound like this is the right time to let Spinrite run for 2 days to fix the HDD
No, seriously check that programm out mate, i was able to fix almost every "broken" HDD somebody brought to me.

 

[alxcsb]

Sound like this is the right time to let Spinrite run for 2 days to fix the HDD
No, seriously check that programm out mate, i was able to fix almost every "broken" HDD somebody brought to me.

So you believe it's broken? The clicking doesn't bother me at all, just wanted to make sure this happens with a normal drive.

 

[Chris230291]

Nothing wrong with it mate. I have 8 x 2TB versions in a server, a few 1TB ones floating around and i've heard it too.

No windows but i do run Linux (FreeNas server) and OS X.

 

[Josh Weston]

This happens to my WD Green, and mine's just fine.

 

[alxcsb]

Great stuff lads. Thank you.