I bought 2 of the WD 18TB Easystores that recently went on sale. They both tested fine and so far seem to be functioning and performing fine but they are significantly noisier than the 8TB and 10 TB Easystores I had before. When data is actively being read from or written to the drive you can hear lots of mechanical noises from outside the PC case several feet away. It doesn’t seem to be unique to just one of the 2 I bought, they’re both similar. Is that usually a sign that the drive will be less reliable?
I put the server and drives in another room so I don’t hear it. but all the larger drives are 7200rpm so they are a bit noisier than some of the “smaller” 12tb and 14tb drives.
These bigger easytore drives are just loud. I have multiple 14 and 18tb drives. All make strange loud noises. I was so used to the noise the 14tbs make that I was in shock how quite the 20tb red pro is. That thing is dead quite just sitting on a desk with no case around it.
The one I got is making a lot of loud clacking noises any time the drive is accessed. It is far beyond what I would consider to be a “noisy” drive in general. I’m returning it tomorrow.
Not necessarily. If it sounds like it’s “grinding”, that’s bad, or “clicking”, like “tik tik tik tik” and the computer pauses for a second, that’s bad.
Working at higher performance will generate more noise.
There’s likely nothing wrong with it
I was just going to make a post about my 20tb elements. Disk info looks good and a short test with hddscan came out clean, but dang if these disks aren’t noisy compared to smaller 12 and 16 tb drives.