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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by sliken on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:33AM (#13538538)
Be warned, I got an HGST drive for personal use, happy to pay the premium. It was quite loud, my wife commented from across the room "What is that?". A periodic loud "tick". Turns out it does some kind of calibration and you can't turn it off. Many reviews mentioned it, didn't even look.

I returned it.

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by userbinator on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:00AM (#13539789)
WD blacks do that too, although it's more of a grunty, almost snort-like oink.