hard drive clacking/clicking

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steven1110

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It's not the click of death though.

I had my Raptor and WD 1tb drive in a Antec p182 case and didn't hear a peep out of the drives. Tonight I put them in a silverstone lc13-e and I'm getting a clacking sound from them when they "think"/search for data.

I don't know if it's the drive making the case rattle or if it's the drive itself.

Anybody else have something similar to this?
 
Does WD's diagnostic utilities or SMART indicate any degraded attributes for the drive itself?

You could have a loose screw or maybe the case's construction allows for a lot of vibration for whatever reason. I have a P180, and all the HDD bays have silicone mounts that minimize resonance from the drives; I'm not sure what the Silverstone has, but if it's just screws (and your Raptor is an older model), it could very well be the drive's rotation and vibration causing that noise of yours.
 
yeah the p182 has the silicon washers too but I wasn't sure if that would make or break it...I'll run WD diagnostics and see if anything turns up. And it is a fairly old raptor so I guess from what you say they will cause considerable vibration..

Thanks for the quick response.
 
The old raptors sound very different in a P182 with silicon washers compared to being traditionally mounted. It's not just you.
 
Yeah I ran the diagnostics last night and it all came out good. I guess it's just the drive rattling the case or mount.

I'm going to open it back up tonight to make sure everything is tightened firmly. I'm think I may try to retrofit the silicon grommets so I can use them in the new case. Outside of that are there any solutions to reducing the amount of noise that is being emitted?
 
Make a rubber band cage... seriously. I do it all the time for clients, usually ends up with a machine they can't even hear and that's with Raptors and even some Velociraptor boxes. Been doing it for a really long time, never had issues...
 
rubber band cage? Not sure I follow you there. I'm needing a solution that doesn't take up too much space being as it's a smaller case to begin with(silverstone lc13-e) and end up filling all the 3.5 slots in it with drives.

Thanks!
 
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