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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Is it common to hear your hard drive kind of "start up" sometimes when directly accessing the content on that HD? all my OS etc. is installed on my SSD, but say I open explorer and explore the 1TB caviar black which is just storage, if its quiet in my room i can hear it kind of "start up" ?
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I'm going to take a bit of a guess but it sounds a bit like WDIDLE (WD's intellipark feature) is enabled on your drive, which isn't supposed to be the case for the blacks. Is it the spin-up sound you get as if you were to cold-boot your pc? If so, then WDIDLE may be causing it.
I have blacks and greens in my desktop. I immediately noticed that happening with my greens. I thought it would be fine, but I read around that it can reduce the lifespan of the drive motors so I immediately disabled it. Since I've done that, I haven't noticed any "start up" sounds that you may be speaking of.
edit: my bad for the double post, decided to answer another question.