My new HDD makes this low thumping sound when reading files (the ones after the mouse clicking sound).Are these normal sounds for an HDD to make or is there an issue here?
>>1556201I can't tell exactly what I'm hearing, but yes it's normal for a HDD to make noises. It has mechanical moving parts inside it constantly doing things
>>1556201>HDD>in the big 2026I would normally tell you to just get an SSD, but with the AI datacenter shit going on, I can't totally blame ya.Anyways, what >>1556207 said.
>>1556210To be fair HDDs have warning signs when they're about to fail, SSDs tend to suddenly just not work one day with little warning.When a HDD fails usually you can still recover data, a SSD might need help from a recovery company to do the same.
get crystaldisk and use it check your HDDs regularly. If you aren't getting bad sectors you're fine. I've have my HDD diagonally on my PSU and it makes wierd fucking noises constantly but it reads ok on crystaldisk which is the only thing that matters
>>1556247Thanks anon, I gave that a try, I think this is okay but not sure on the terminology, any issues here?
>>1556201Such a thumping by itself is not normal, but it could be that it is caused by the surrounding, i.e. something resonating to the movement. The cause is probably the arm moving which creates a small shock the case reacts to.The disk by itself should not make such deep thumping noises.>>1556252You have quite a few read and seek errors for 40 hours, but at 16TB you also have quite dense surface, so the arm can miss the microscopic spots easily.What he is talking about is 05 and C5.As soon as the first spare sector is used failure is usually not far.
