- Drive: Western Digital Black D10 Game Drive 8TB, connected via USB 3.0. Age approximately 8 years.
- Host Device: Raspberry Pi 4b.
My hard drive is making some humming likes noises (see the video link below) whilst watching a film, no mechanical grinding noises and the light on the drive blinks. The video crashed as well. The drive would settle down after a minute and then work again.
So I did a short test with smartctl which came out with no errors.
Test results:
I attempted to do a long test but after 10 minutes the humming noise began again and when I tried to run the test again, it couldnt find the drive. So I checked out df -h and I noticed the pi has the drive now listed twice and it also changed from sdb to sdc. It’s also weird the mount point also changed.
df -h:
Is this down to my hard drive beginning to fail? Or is it more likely to do with my Raspberry Pi? I’ve had this Raspberry Pi setup as it is for a long time now, Ive not updated in a long time either since everything was stable if that might make a difference.
