Should I still have Dell swap out this HDD out for a different one????? see below?

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Ok I just formatted my noisy NEW Seagate Barracuda 2TBHDD and the clickity click, clickity click clickity click Noise stopped why?

I've been posting other HDD questions on here recently and thank you to those who have responded with helpful, insightful information.  For those who haven't read or answered those questions/posts.  This is the 2nd of 2 brand new HDD (same maker/model...) that has been installed in my new Dell XPS 8940 S.E.,  I'm about to have them swap out this HDD with a 3rd HDD of a different Maker/Model, because  I just can't take the noise of this HDD.  I can hear the noise across the room (big room) and consistently even when I'm not using the computer and this HDD hasn't even been used yet, nothing stored to it.

OK  so for the hell of it, I decided to click format and now the sound has "seemed" to stop.  Can anybody, with experience enlighten me what might have happened?

Was it a good thing that I formatted it?

Should it have been formatted when I got it?

**** >>>>MOST IMPORTANTLY should I still have them swap this HDD out for a different one?????

Dr. Xakful · Answer

if you just "don't like" the noises HDDs make, then you should get an SSD. they have no moving parts.
a new HDD will ALWAYS make sounds when the drive is being written to, and on Windows 10, that is ALWAYS happening.
if you are having TROUBLE, and the drive is not FUNCTIONING properly when it makes those noises, then it may be a hardware issue, but honestly, SSDs run faster than HDDs, too, though you are uktimately limited by the speed of your CPU...

champer · Answer

Mechanical hard drives do make a sound when they're looking for a file or whatever, though it shouldn't be excessive. Maybe yours was frantically trying to find a file that wasn't there, and formatting it has stopped it trying to do this. I don't know exactly what it was doing. Perhaps there were fragments of file on there it was trying to make sense of.

Personally I'd try copying some files to it and seeing if you can open them from there. If it now works properly it's fine.

DeMoNsLaYeR575 · Answer

so all hdds will make noise when they are being used.
Lots of clicking can indicate a bad drive OR it can indicate a drive that is working VERY hard.

your drive was likey VERY fragmented which was causing the disk to work hard even for simple tasks. This was causing the "loud" clicking

if you want silence the ONLY option is an SSD.

Should I still have Dell swap out this HDD out for a different one????? see below?

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