There's likely nothing wrong with it
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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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.
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.
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.
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.