hd204ui spin-up

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allen200

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just a quick question about this drive. whenever i access it after coming from idle, it makes a very unique, and very loud access sound, followed by a whole seven seconds of spin-up time before the drive is accessible. is this longer wait normal for green drives? i get nervous when it does this, as it seems unhealthy.
 
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I don't have an answer, but if this helps others - I believe the model in question is the Samsung F4 2TB.
 
I have a bunch of the HD204UI's and the HD103SJ's

If the drive has been parked due to power management it does take ~7 seconds to spin back up, sounds like a quiet dremel ramping followed by a loud click. Seems to be normal on the 8 HD204UIs.
 
I've got 8 of these drives in a raid array so they never really spin-down, but they are some of the quietest drives I've ever used. I did also have one that was DOA and it had the click o' death sound...That one, you could hear spin up, then a loud click and die, then it would repeat that cycle until I would pull power from the drive. It would never come online though.
 
I can definitely hear mine spinning up, but it's not overly loud.
 
allen200 said:
just a quick question about this drive. whenever i access it after coming from idle, it makes a very unique, and very loud access sound, followed by a whole seven seconds of spin-up time before the drive is accessible. is this longer wait normal for green drives? i get nervous when it does this, as it seems unhealthy.
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As I say for every hard drive anomaly look at the SMART raw data to see if the drive thinks it is operating out of spec. On windows CrystalDiskInfo is a good program for that. On other operating systems I recommend smartctl from the smartmontools package.
 
i dont know if this long spin-up time is normal or not. but being used to the quick three seconds of a regular drive spinning up, i dont like this samsung. think i'll pick up a 2tb black drive instead, or wait for the 2 platter large capacity drives supposedly coming out soon.
 
My HD103UIs have a very...unique spinup sound, kind of like a plastic squeak. When I first heard it I thought the drives were damaged, but it's normal.

My HD204UIs didn't seem to have much for unique acoustics but I've only heard them in loud environments.

I keep my spindles turning 24/7.
 
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