New WD Caviar Black 2TB Issues!

[milo]

Hi all haven't posted here for a while but recently I ran into a problem. So my old 3 year old Seagate died the other day so I bought a new WB Black 2TB.

Anyway it runs very loud, I don't mean the spinning sound of the hard-drive I mean it sorta sounds like a fan that's just nicking something, its only loud when the hard-drive light is flickering and on not when its off. To put it in perspective if i turn all my fans to max i can still hear it clearly.

Also it runs very slow for a fresh install of windows considering its runs at 7200RPM and at Sata 3 speeds.

As I have NO expirence with WD can anybody fill me in. Cheers.

Here is the link to the exact one I bought : http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=210_344&products_id=16482

 

[Murphyslaw]

The Drive should make a bit of noise, even based on what you can see on the link you showed. The acoustics will be ~30dB. depending on your fans, that will be more.

By very slow, how are you meaning?
Have you installed the motherboard drivers, and all other drivers?

 

[milo]

Well I believe my old Seagate was rated the same if a little quieter dB wise. The noise I'm hearing is quite notable, for example it is enough to distract you if your not wearing headphones.

As for the slowness i have indeed installed all the drivers for it as far as I know. My old Seagate was 500GB at the same speed but Sata 2 and it ran a good deal faster. That could be due to the capacity since WD is 2TB but for example on boot Mozilla would load 10 seconds faster on my old Seagate.

On side note what does setting your hard-drive to Slave/Master do? I have no clue what that stuff does.
Cheers.

 

[S_I_N]

master/slave is around still from the old days when we use IDE cables you had to set jumpers to which was the primary drive (master) or secondary (slave) no need to worry about that in the sata realms

most likely the slowness you sense is in fact due to it being 4 times the size of your older drive. the noise is also most likely caused by the same thing. Your 500Gb drive may (or may not) of been of the single platter design seagate sometimes uses. Whilst your 2tb drive will have mutiple platters within it. thereby making it slower and noisier. I'd suggest this, reinstall windows again this time when setting the parameters for the install set the drive to 500gb and install on that leaving the remaining space available after windows install as kind of a second drive where you can store files and such. And see if this helps the speed of it.

 

[milo]

Yeah I think you might be right there. With this hard-drive there are four paters I believe each with 500GB.

Well I'll see how I go I might try some techniques for sound dampening. Otherwise I'll leave it I just thought, as i have no experience with WD, that this could be a faulty drive or that I might have stuffed something up but I guess I'm in the all clear.

Maybe it's gods way of saying It's time for a SSD, haha

Cheers for your help everyone, always get a great response.