Hello together

I bought the WD Elements Desktop HDD 16TB from Digitec today.
The hard drive is sitting on my PC table and I can feel and hear a slight knocking / cracking every 4-5 seconds. Is this normal or a defect?

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Hello together

I bought the WD Elements Desktop HDD 16TB from Digitec today.
The hard drive is sitting on my PC table and I can feel and hear a slight knocking / cracking every 4-5 seconds. Is this normal or a defect?

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I also recently bought this hard disc.
I have not noticed any regular noise with this one. It is also barely audible during operation.

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for me it sounds like described in another case on reddit with video

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When the hard drive is working, you can hear a very quiet knocking/cracking noise, which is normal as these are mechanical HDs. All of mine are actually like this, I have several connected. However, it doesn't bother me and so far all of them are still running perfectly.

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Hello together I bought the WD Elements Desktop HDD 16TB from Digitec today. The hard drive is sitting on my PC table and I can feel and hear a slight knocking / cracking every 4-5 seconds. Is this normal or a defect?