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Hello,
I got myself a WD Elements external USB HDD, 1 TB, on Windows 7 Pro. Just plugged it in, put some files on it, works fine. When it should be idling, it sounds like it does an ongoing, permanent access noise, similar to transferring a large file. As soon as I do something on the HDD, for example opening a video file, the noise stops. A few seconds after closing the video file, the noise is back again. I already disabled drive indexing.
Any idea what could cause this behaviour?
I got myself a WD Elements external USB HDD, 1 TB, on Windows 7 Pro. Just plugged it in, put some files on it, works fine. When it should be idling, it sounds like it does an ongoing, permanent access noise, similar to transferring a large file. As soon as I do something on the HDD, for example opening a video file, the noise stops. A few seconds after closing the video file, the noise is back again. I already disabled drive indexing.
Any idea what could cause this behaviour?