Ask HN: Do you know why new high-capacity WD drives make this weird noise?
2 by robotmay | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I recently bought two 8TB WD Gold drives, and they happen to be the noisiest drives I've heard in about 20 years. However the weirdest aspect of it is that they make a sound like a floppy drive regularly when not under load. There's a huge thread on the WD forum with other people experiencing this across multiple ranges and sizes: https://ift.tt/3cN88AG This audio clip captures the type of sound: https://ift.tt/2QYdIYi ~260 posts and 2 years in, nobody has a clue what it is and WD won't explain it either. The common factors seem to be running them in a software RAID on home servers. It's weird and it's quite irritating, so does anyone on HN have any ideas? I bought Gold drives so I wasn't expecting silence, but this seems to be prevalent across the Red Pro and Red range too.