eliland
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- Jan 28, 2016
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Hi all,
I took delivery of my new homemade FreeNAS server a couple months ago, and it has been running stable 24/7 since then. It's loaded with 2x 8TB WD Red drives mirrored and sitting in a Fractal Design R5.
On day one I noticed one of them, possibly both (it's often hard to pinpoint), had a steady ticking noise, even when no data was being written to or read from the server. Sort of like "<10 seconds of nothing> TICK-tick-tick-tick...tick". Fairly loud and annoying and easily felt when holding a finger on the drive, drive cage or even the case itself.
Since then the steady tick has slowly evolved to an extreme vibration. It has completely, and I do mean completely, defeated the Fractal's anti-vibration mount. Everything and anything in or near the case, including the table it sits on, now has a constant hum to it.
Has anyone else noticed this with the WD Red's, especially the 8TB ones? I've had an old 4TB in my desktop PC for ages with zero noise issues. I've run several SMART tests (long, short, scheduled, unscheduled, u name it) on both disks with no problems reported
I took delivery of my new homemade FreeNAS server a couple months ago, and it has been running stable 24/7 since then. It's loaded with 2x 8TB WD Red drives mirrored and sitting in a Fractal Design R5.
On day one I noticed one of them, possibly both (it's often hard to pinpoint), had a steady ticking noise, even when no data was being written to or read from the server. Sort of like "<10 seconds of nothing> TICK-tick-tick-tick...tick". Fairly loud and annoying and easily felt when holding a finger on the drive, drive cage or even the case itself.
Since then the steady tick has slowly evolved to an extreme vibration. It has completely, and I do mean completely, defeated the Fractal's anti-vibration mount. Everything and anything in or near the case, including the table it sits on, now has a constant hum to it.
Has anyone else noticed this with the WD Red's, especially the 8TB ones? I've had an old 4TB in my desktop PC for ages with zero noise issues. I've run several SMART tests (long, short, scheduled, unscheduled, u name it) on both disks with no problems reported