Sounds exactly like the 20TB WD Elements external drive I use at work, and very similar to my brother's 12TB WD My Book. that one doesn´t have that last part of the seek test. it's also 5 years older so likely also an older series of drive inside.
I might have to see about getting a decent recording of my HC650 here sometime - it sounds similar up through both of the "buzz" noises around 0:17, but doesn't make the same noises when idling.
@@eliotreyna if Helium leaks, heads get sucked to the surface at high speed randomly, some float instability appear, like a butterfly. It should be a scream of death with a scratch and the head total destruction. In air-filled WD, click is usually when heads break beyond the thin plastic limiter, beyond the disk parking zone, or even beyond the disk itself and cling together. WD always had a problem with parking zone, and weak plastic tools for limiting the power-off automatic retraction. I heard, that in the later disks a parking ramp was implemented like in HGST/IBM, but it was still unreliable and heads were falling down where they should not, when the disk was stopping. It looks like some short circuit condition happens then, so you can not start it up; but sometimes hitting it hard moves the heads, and the disk may spin up again.
Hello, in this video good hdd have buzz noise in idle. I am checking many ultrastar sound tests and they all have such noise when microphone records very close to them. From human perception, do you hear this buzz from for example 1 meter? Do you hear it if it's in pc case/nas and you are near this pc/nas? My hdd will be idle most of time, so I don't care about seek clicks, however I don't want to hear constant buzzing sound, but probably it's not audible in normal case. I will appreciate your answer and thanks for attention and for video anyways.
I'm sorry I just saw your comment. I had the dead one replaced under warranty, so I've been using both in RAID 1 outside of my PC case for the past couple weeks or so. I'm about 1 meter away I would say, and I don't really hear any buzzing noise. I had some noise at some point, but it was vibrations from the case. After moving the drives that noise was gone. That said, I hear the PC fans and watercooling pump a bit, so if your PC is more quiet than mine, maybe it will be different.
@@Slay3rOne Thanks for your response. I actually didn't risk it with 18Tb drives and bought toshiba mg08 recently (103 firmware, manufactured June 2023). Put it to NAS at first to listen all types of sound. I hear buzzing sound, it exists and in quiet night I could hear it in room, however it's probably lowest from all similar hdd. Can be my personal sensitivity or changes between different hdd units. Luckily this buzz is totally unhearable in pc case (Core v71). My mg08 has some powerful vibro-punch under high load and NAS amplified this sound and I could hear it in all my apartment. Again luckily enough in pc case it can be heared as normal quiet hdd clicks. I have Ultrastar 7k6000 6Tb in same case and it ~7x noisier than mg08. So overall - in nas or any cheap box - it will be bad under high load. In good pc case - it will be very good. Anyways thanks for you response, I'll rememeber it. Most likely in future I will try to choose between 18Tb Ultrastar and 18Tnb toshiba
@@Odinochka1986 Oh my bad. I guess the NAS being smaller and not built as sturdy as the PC case, makes the whole thing vibrate and amplifies the noise from the drive. Those drives do shake a lot under high load, much more than some previous drives I owned of lower (around 3TB) capacity. So I imagine compromises have to be made if you do not want to hear them at all at idle at least. The buzzing sound you're talking about, I imagine you're talking about the rotation of the drive itself?
Never heard a modern ultrastar before. They sound great.
Spindle is so quiet but the seek test is quite noisy. Good to hear that someone still makes a drive that has seek sounds to it!
Sounds exactly like the 20TB WD Elements external drive I use at work, and very similar to my brother's 12TB WD My Book. that one doesn´t have that last part of the seek test. it's also 5 years older so likely also an older series of drive inside.
I might have to see about getting a decent recording of my HC650 here sometime - it sounds similar up through both of the "buzz" noises around 0:17, but doesn't make the same noises when idling.
Interesting... I don't know those recent drives too much, this is my first time getting one those models. Would be curious to hear indeed!
A click of death at Ultrastar? Is it possible? WD, maybe, but those are made by HGST dept. What do you think had failed there?
The Hellium leak, maybe?
@@eliotreyna if Helium leaks, heads get sucked to the surface at high speed randomly, some float instability appear, like a butterfly. It should be a scream of death with a scratch and the head total destruction. In air-filled WD, click is usually when heads break beyond the thin plastic limiter, beyond the disk parking zone, or even beyond the disk itself and cling together. WD always had a problem with parking zone, and weak plastic tools for limiting the power-off automatic retraction. I heard, that in the later disks a parking ramp was implemented like in HGST/IBM, but it was still unreliable and heads were falling down where they should not, when the disk was stopping. It looks like some short circuit condition happens then, so you can not start it up; but sometimes hitting it hard moves the heads, and the disk may spin up again.
Probably shipping damage.
Bad heads too can cause this.
Hello, in this video good hdd have buzz noise in idle. I am checking many ultrastar sound tests and they all have such noise when microphone records very close to them. From human perception, do you hear this buzz from for example 1 meter? Do you hear it if it's in pc case/nas and you are near this pc/nas? My hdd will be idle most of time, so I don't care about seek clicks, however I don't want to hear constant buzzing sound, but probably it's not audible in normal case. I will appreciate your answer and thanks for attention and for video anyways.
I'm sorry I just saw your comment. I had the dead one replaced under warranty, so I've been using both in RAID 1 outside of my PC case for the past couple weeks or so. I'm about 1 meter away I would say, and I don't really hear any buzzing noise. I had some noise at some point, but it was vibrations from the case. After moving the drives that noise was gone. That said, I hear the PC fans and watercooling pump a bit, so if your PC is more quiet than mine, maybe it will be different.
@@Slay3rOne Thanks for your response. I actually didn't risk it with 18Tb drives and bought toshiba mg08 recently (103 firmware, manufactured June 2023). Put it to NAS at first to listen all types of sound. I hear buzzing sound, it exists and in quiet night I could hear it in room, however it's probably lowest from all similar hdd. Can be my personal sensitivity or changes between different hdd units. Luckily this buzz is totally unhearable in pc case (Core v71). My mg08 has some powerful vibro-punch under high load and NAS amplified this sound and I could hear it in all my apartment. Again luckily enough in pc case it can be heared as normal quiet hdd clicks. I have Ultrastar 7k6000 6Tb in same case and it ~7x noisier than mg08. So overall - in nas or any cheap box - it will be bad under high load. In good pc case - it will be very good. Anyways thanks for you response, I'll rememeber it. Most likely in future I will try to choose between 18Tb Ultrastar and 18Tnb toshiba
@@Odinochka1986 Oh my bad. I guess the NAS being smaller and not built as sturdy as the PC case, makes the whole thing vibrate and amplifies the noise from the drive. Those drives do shake a lot under high load, much more than some previous drives I owned of lower (around 3TB) capacity. So I imagine compromises have to be made if you do not want to hear them at all at idle at least. The buzzing sound you're talking about, I imagine you're talking about the rotation of the drive itself?
I would love to send you a drive to record!