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Hello! I hope someone can help me with this problem that Google search couldn’t give me answers to: I own 2 Hard Drives; one is a Seagate (5 years old) and the other is a WD (3 months old). I purchased the WD because I thought Seagate could be failing (And Seagate thinks it’s failing) Starting last year, my Seagate would make random “beep” like noises. I have recorded different clips of the sound into one video on Youtube. Despite the odd sound, I have not gotten any errors, any loss, or any BsoD. All disk checks, utilities, boot from bios, official and unofficial programs said the HDD is 100% fine. I even replaced all my SATA plugs to see if that was the cause. My PSU is new because my old one died (the problem occurred during the old one too). After talking to Seagate… They didn’t seem confident that the HDD could be failing. I went ahead and played it safe by buying the WD. I took out the Seagate and added the WD. A week later, the WD starts making the “beep” sound. Like Seagate, WD passed all tests. I want to know why are my HDDs making that sound even though my computer is 100% working fine. My computer is a built. I’m 100% sure the sounds are from the HDD. I disconnected most of the parts to see if the sounds continue. They stop when I disconnect both HDD. Should I not worry about it since both HDD are working fine? Is there something else that’s making them make that noise? The sounds don’t happen continuously, it will do it random. Doesn’t matter if it’s idled or busy, it will do the sounds when it wants to. Definitely appreciate the help. It’s bugging me!

You mentioned PSU. That’s what it sounds like. The hard drive constantly parks its heads, and when you access it, it unparks the heads to transfer data. Download 2 utilities:

  1. Western Digital WinDLG, and do an extended test of the WD drive.
  2. Seagate Tools and do the Advanced test to the Seagate Drive. Go to Settings –> Control Panel –> Power settings, and check all our current power saving schemes and see what the ‘put hard drive to sleep’ options are set at.

Your sound bit doesn’t work so not really certain what your hearing but to test the hard drives I use a program called Hard disk sentinel to test hard drives Use the trial version so you don’t have to buy . Is the beep continuous or how often do you hear it , how loud ? like a post beep ? could you try to post the soundbit again . Also in the build did you put a fan to blow on the hard drive and if so is the fan set to run when the hard drive spins up . Finally does the sound occur when the hard drive spines up or or will it beep without hearing the drive spin. Like to help if I can ,need a litttle more info and to hear it would be nice