Storage Solutions WD500AAKS HDD making noise

[tommy_vercetti]

I bought a WD320 AAKS HDD last year from my freind for 3000/- who purchased it from Lynx, due to financial reasons he had to sell that drive
It worked great for 6-8 months after that the drive started making grinding noise, the noise happens when going into lets say the Windows\System32 folder or into folder having large number of directories in it
On the normal front it does not make any noise or sometimes when moving a file, apart from that during normal usage theres no noise
I called up WD, who promptly told me to send the drive for RMA, which I did and was surprised to get a WD500 the same AAKS series in return, I was all smiles, but I notice that it also was doing the same thing, the grinding noise, the HDD is connected to the Cabinet using screws and not the Plug and Play connectors as I like it to be connected firmly
Anyone with the same model can shed some light
Thanks in advance

 

[Saiyan]

No such noise from my 500AAKS, have been using it for nearly 2 yrs.

 

[foruamit2004]

Atleast take backup of imp stuff before anything happens..when my old hdd started making noise it died after 3-4 days..

 

[The Sauron]

Wow you got 500GB in replacement.Well my WD640 AAKS model is running silent like dead person,No problem what so ever.

 

[varkey]

Even my 5000AAKS has a similar problem, there is heavy vibration. I can feel the vibration on the whole table. I just created a RMA, waiting for them to pick up the hard disk.

 

[tommy_vercetti]

Strangely it is not making noise now, does have something like breaking in a new HDD, will monitor for a couple of dayk, do they honor RMA'ed HDD's for replacement as I already have got this from RMA

 

[techie_007]

Strangely it is not making noise now, does have something like breaking in a new HDD, will monitor for a couple of dayk, do they honor RMA'ed HDD's for replacement as I already have got this from RMA

yes you can RMA it again so long as the original warranty period is still valid.