Noisey *new* WD hard drive...

[Guest Guest]

Just got one of these http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/500Gb+Western+Digital+SATA+-+16MB+-+7200RPM?productId=27026

 

Stuck it in and hell is it noisey! Its a high pitch noisey, persumably from the platters spinning. At first i thought my PSU had gone as its that type of high pitch whale, the type that you can hear in any part of the room, sort of like when your tele is making that high pitch noise but not as high.

 

 

Anyone else had one of these? Does it quiet down or should i be sending it back?

 

:beer:

[Ric_]

I've heard (mind the pun) that these disks are incredibly noisy... something about not being allowed to use noise reduction technology but I took that statement with a pinch of salt.

[DMcCoy]

I doubt its going to get any better with age. I've returned new drives in the past as I just couldn't live with the noise, even when they were supposed to be quiet. It all seems a bit hit an miss to what the pitch will be from the motor.

 

You could try a spinpoint, I've stopped buying WD's as mine all seem to die (even the expensive raid editions I bought for a NAS). Not really *all* of them, but more than I would like.

[webman]

I've always found Seagate Barracuda disks to be fairly quiet. I also avoid Aria at all costs due to bad experience with their customer services.

[Jona]

I've always found Seagate Barracuda disks to be fairly quiet. I also avoid Aria at all costs due to bad experience with their customer services.

Intresting, I would say the exact opposite of this...

 

They've always been very good at arranging returns and replacements for us.

 

Just shows you how much experiences can vary I guess

 

Cheers

Jona

[ICT_GUY]

You get what you pay for.

A 500gig hard disk for £50? Something has to give.

 

I use raptors in my home PC, for reliability and speed, they cost a lot of dosh though.

 

You could try rubber gromets though, that might help. Try your local modeling shop for some model aircraft fuel hose, cut into 2mm o rings and place wither side of the mounting screws, just dont over tighten them. Also make sure its not the case resonating, as this can casue one hell of a racket and is somewhat easier to fix with foam tape and such like.

[Athlona]

And I like WD:) wouldn`t touch any other make...

 

Raptors with alot more space are needed...

[webman]

@Jona: In a nutshell: they refused to refund money for a faulty product and eventually after about 8 weeks they offered a credit note to a value less than what I paid for the product originally. During this time it was difficult to get a response from people at Aria, so I explained the situation (nicely!) on the forum and was subsequently banned (some woman repeating "This is my lair, I can do what I like, we'll have no negative comments here!"). Very unprofessional in my personal opinion.

[Guest Guest]

You get what you pay for.

A 500gig hard disk for £50? Something has to give.

 

Thats how much 500gb hard drives are now, all the big brands are within a few £ of eachother.

 

 

 

Im quite sure my case isnt resonanting but will give it a go. Got it on to copy 400gb today while im at work, and may remotely log in to delete the data and restart the copy so that it gets a *good* burn in.

 

Cheers

Edited January 23, 2008 by Guest

[Jona]

@Jona: In a nutshell: they refused to refund money for a faulty product and eventually after about 8 weeks they offered a credit note to a value less than what I paid for the product originally. During this time it was difficult to get a response from people at Aria, so I explained the situation (nicely!) on the forum and was subsequently banned (some woman repeating "This is my lair, I can do what I like, we'll have no negative comments here!"). Very unprofessional in my personal opinion.

 

Fair enough, I always use the RMA form avaliable here: http://www.aria.co.uk/Support/Returns+Info

And if needs be phone customer services (0870 443 2389).

[webman]

Yes, I did use the RMA form and followed the whole process. A story about the phone number, too - I phoned at 4:20pm one day and was kept on hold until 5pm when I was then told that they had closed. Thanks a lot Aria.

[Guest blacksheep]

Nice grommets here:

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ITAG=SPEC&ModuleNo=29915&doy=23m1#spec

 

(Hope I am allowed to post site links here )

[ICT_GUY]

Thats how much 500gb hard drives are now, all the big brands are within a few £ of eachother.

 

 

 

Im quite sure my case isnt resonanting but will give it a go. Got it on to copy 400gb today while im at work, and may remotely log in to delete the data and restart the copy so that it gets a *good* burn in.

 

Cheers

 

Not what I ment, 500gigs on a drive is a lot. The technology is there, but for that price quality is going to come second.

 

Its why the Raptor drives are the best for reliability (for consumer disks), but they are £1 per gig. Scsii costs even more per gig but then again is designed to run for 5 years constantly without failure in a server.

 

Consumer drives are built to a price and a percentage are going to fail or not meet the standards required. The drive companies let the consumers do the quality control testing, most of the faulty drives will fail within the first hour, the majority within 24hrs and the rest should last upwards of 3 years normal use. This is more cost effective than doing the testing yourself.

 

Now I do have a 200MB HD that is sitting in the bottom of a draw at home. This from the days when the drive would have cost upwards of £400 (1990 ish I think). It still works, go figure

 

Oh and to suck eggs, first you have to open your mouth wide.

[DMcCoy]

I see the raptor as an overpriced marketing exercise though, there are plenty of other disks rated at 1.2m hours mtbf with higher densities that get similar performance. The raptor is just expensive because it can be, not because it is somehow a better class of drive.

[Joanne]

I really should replace the 40GB drive I have at home... then again I would have to install everything again....

 

I like maxtor.... except they don't exist anymore

[contink]

I really should replace the 40GB drive I have at home... then again I would have to install everything again....

Why not just ghost to a new drive?

[Guest Guest]

Nice grommets here:

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ITAG=SPEC&ModuleNo=29915&doy=23m1#spec

 

(Hope I am allowed to post site links here )

 

Cheers, just poped out and got some. Hopefully it will cure it but i have the feeling it wont.

[ICT_GUY]

I see the raptor as an overpriced marketing exercise though, there are plenty of other disks rated at 1.2m hours mtbf with higher densities that get similar performance. The raptor is just expensive because it can be, not because it is somehow a better class of drive.

 

Well I'll let you know if mine fails before the end of the century.

 

Over priced? Maybe, then so are server discs. They are also 10000k with 16megs cache. Though they do have lower data density than the more modern drives. If one fails on me then its not worth the money, but before I bought them I had a series of drive failures that annoyed me no end. I think 5 disks blown in less than 5 years.

 

I also use a 75 gig one in one of the servers here at work, for ghost images, intranet, wsus and the proxy. Its connected to a 8 year old mobo via a very good quality sata card. This drive is abused to a very high level and is very very quick.

[Joanne]

Why not just ghost to a new drive?

 

I'll prolly whap the new one in as a second hdd... i shouldn't moan, it only has vista and office and some messenger apps hehehe....

[SYNACK]

If you are after long term reliability then you could go for Seagate ES drives which are made for server type use and are a lot more reliable. Personally I don't trust Maxtor, we got in a lot of ten computers with Maxtor drives. Within six months eight had failed hard drives.