My WD10EARS also makes a buzzing sound sometimes. I have no idea why. Does anyone know? My WD 1.5 EARS is very silent. Don't know what OS you are running, but find some way to run a SMART utility on your hard drive. Look for bad sectors, or reallocations, or retries. Make sure you have a good backu...

My WD10EARS also makes a buzzing sound sometimes. I have no idea why. Does anyone know?

I'd probably list it as: speed ? A tie. No clear winner. idle noise ? Samsung wins seek noise ? WD Green wins vibration ? High sample variance. A matter of luck. annoyances ? Samsung wins because it lacks them. WD has RAID incompatibility and the non-configurable unload feature. Does this also appl...

Well I have a WD10EADS-00M2B0 and the sound is definitely audible. The "how" part is very subjective. I used the firmware hack to change head-parking time longer so it wouldn't do this. The firmware hack might not work for all drives and it voids warranty (though I don't know if they will/can check...

I'm considering buying the WD10EARS. How audible is the sound it makes when it parks its heads?

I'm looking for a quiet drive but I've seen some people say these drives can make an annoying clicking sound during parking. I read through most of this thread but I didn't get an answer.