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After further investigation, if you sit the drive loose on top of the PC case plugged in it's totally silent. Put it back in the blue plastic caddy in either of the two 3.5 bays it makes the clunking sound. In one of the bays it's a bit quieter so it's obviously sesonating through the case somehow

Thankyou, much appreciated The 4TB red plus are £89 at the moment

mrk, can I ask. Any issues running a WD red NAS drive as a single volume backup drive in a desktop PC such as our Dell XP8950? Would it be a more reliable drive and better option than the WD blue?

Thanks dessimpson and mrk, I will return the drive. Cheers Al

I guess it's normal! Doesn't sound like any other Seagate drives I've had before

Hi All I've just installed a new 4TB Seagate BarraCuda ST4000DM004, 3.5" HDD, SATA III - 6Gb/s, 5400rpm, 256MB Cache as a user file storage drive. The "C" drive is a 1TB SSD. The 4TB Seagate is very noisy and not like a bunch of other Seagate drives I have now or have had in the past. Here's...

Thanks Tetras. Looking into the Driver, additional problem is I'm in London and the PC is in Norwich. Haven't used the events log before so am I looking under "event viewer>application and service logs>hardware events"? Al

Hi there My daughter has a Dell XPS 8950 for her animation and visual effects degree course work. It's about 6 months old and has developed a glitch. The whole screen will 'flash' black for a few seconds (1-2 seconds) before coming back on and any audio playing at the same time will continue...

Thanks all for the input, much appreciated

Thanks Darael, will do the backup. The textile software just won't run on Windows 8 or 10 unless you pay for the later versions. The Windows 7 version I bought was £6000 about ten years ago! it also needs a USB security key dongle to work

Thanks Orcvader If i unplug the drive with 7 in it while installing 11 will I still get this screen option when I boot the PC?

Hi All I have a work desktop PC running Windows 7 on a 500gb SSD. I need to keep Windows 7 to run some old textile design software and I can't risk messing up that software installation, it was very expensive. In order to run Windows 11 on the same PC I'm about to install a new 1TB SSD and...

Thanks for the input I got the Acasis with a Samsung 980 pro. The mac Mini turned up yesterday and all works together amazingly fast and doesn't get too hot doing time machine backups

I now have a new Mac mini M1 16GB 1tb on order, too much work on to wait for the M2's A last question on an external drive enclosure for a back-up if you will. I nearly ordered this thanks to your advice...

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Hi All I'm looking to upgade from my old 2012 MAC Mini to a Mac Mini - M1 Chip - 16GB RAM - 512GB SSD I do graphics work so Illustrator and photoshop and maybe looking to keep all my working files on a fast 2TB external drive. Can you please recommend a fast external drive, or should I pay more...

Thanks for your input everyone, much appreciated. Al

Hi there, some help and advice if you will please. I need to build or maybe buy a pre-built PC desktop to handle 3D animation and special effects / rendering for my daughter who's at college. She'll be using the following software: Maya Nuke Cinema 4D - Redshift Blender Z Brush Mari Substance...

Thanks edscdk much appreciated, pm sent

Hi All After some recent Dell updates to my Dell XPS15 7590 my home wifi has dropped to a rediculous 2mb/s whilst other laptops in the house have 70mb/s on Plusnet. After searching there appears to be issues around the Killer AX1650 network card. The default settings on the network card...