Thanks Steve. Yes I wasn't sure how worried I should be about a scraping sound. It's not spinning up when it's making the scraping sound. If I trigger it to spin up, then it makes the expected whirring sound, stay spun up for 5 minutes, the spins down. Oddly, It doesn't make the scraping sound when ...

Hi, I had a 5 year old 2TB WD Red drive (WDC WD20EFRX). I spin it down using hd-idle which makes it almost silent except it makes a scraping (seeking?) sound every 1-5 minutes. It's not spinning up when it's doing that. My two questions are 1) Should I expect it to be silent when spun down. I access...