my seagate eexpansion 8tb desktop external hard drive starting up

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Uploaded by: spacepup

Upload date: 12/22/2025

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Just got this drive yesterday. If you want to hear the sounds of it reading/writing its data, let me know. Also, i'm looking for a good program so i can test my hard drive's speed, let me know that as well

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  • clickersound - 12/22/2025

    Allow me to be an HDD nerd for a second.
    It sounds similar to my ST6000DM003, the drive in the 6tb version of these Expansion drives. They are Barracuda models with shingled magnetic recording, 256mb of cache, and an odd spindle speed of 5526 RPM.
    It normally won't do the power on test twice like that, but it seems like it got unplugged from the USB port intermittently, causing the controller to put the drive into sleep mode, then spin it back up once USB was reconnected.
    Check out the youtube channels Binary Blade and Big Blue Banana Bread for bigger hard drive geeks than I am.

    • Aedion - 12/22/2025

      Barracuda? I have a headphone that have that name lol.

      Razer Barracuda X

  • the space pup - 12/22/2025

    okay. It's interesting to hear it twice, i turned on the laptop so maybe usb connected twice? Not sure

  • the space pup - 12/22/2025

    also i placed the phone on the drive, but not sure if i should place it on the left side of the drive

    • clickersound - 12/23/2025

      Those externals are kind of weird. Where one would expect the power to be in line with the sata power and USB to be in line with date, the drive is flipped upside down. If the enclosure is sitting upright, the top of the drive is to the left - not to the right like one would expect.

  • kumandan - 12/22/2025

    Do one for powering down as well.

  • the space pup - 12/22/2025

    will do

    • clickersound - 12/23/2025

      There's a difference between being put to sleep by SMART, IE if the drive is unplugged from USB versus power being removed from the drive. It's not a huge difference in this case, but you can still hear the difference.

  • the space pup - 12/23/2025

    seams mine is a seagate st8000dm004-2cx188

    • clickersound - 01/01/2026

      Does yours click louder when you move it? Mine makes horrible grinding noises if I as much as look at it wrong. It seems to be fine but that can't be good for the drive. I've never seen any other drive do this, and I believe these aren't even helium-filled spinners.

  • TheFake VIP - 01/02/2026

    Crystal disk mark for Windows, I'm less sure of macOS but probably Black Magic Disk Speed Test, and for Linux, use fio (you can configure it to do random or sequential, reads or writes, ballanced workloads, multiple tests in sequence, etc, Chat GPT is pretty good at generating the configs or command-line arguments you need, you can either point it at a file on a mounted partition, or at a whole disk, which of course is a destructive operation, but tests the disk directly and takes the kernel's VFS layer out of the equation).

    • clickersound - 01/06/2026

      Just because I'm on Windows and don't feel like installing anything, I just winsat in cmd. Random read tests are always fun on HDDs. Too bad we don't have speedsys for modern hardware - HDDS made very weird noises when Speedsys was ran on them. Check out older drive videos from bigbluebananabread and you'll see what I mean.