Question: I have an SSD and HDD. My HDD is now around 5 years old.
My HDD makes a boot up sound as if its first time turning on and this happens randomly, it doesn’t matter whether I’m playing games, idle, surfing the internet or anything.
The hdd always makes a boot up sound even though my PC has been on for a long duration of times.
I cannot record the sound as it is always random.
Is my HDD dying? should I remove it?
Answer:Is the sound any different to when you first turned it on 5 years ago? if not its fine mate
HDD’s run like this especially nowdays because most people keep there important stuff on an SSD, the HDD will sleep when its not being used, i suspect something in windows it making it come to life every now and then, what do you have on it