It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thefool00 on 2025-02-07 02:55:55.

I have an annoyance that I thought the fine people of this board may be uniquely experienced to assist with. I have a HDD on my play rig that sits on my desk next to me. When it spins up it makes this consistent "scratch scratch" noise every 3 or so seconds. It's not the death click, it's the noise they make under heavy RW operations (going to call it a scratch), but it's very quick, like two consistent scratches within a second, always 2, then 3 seconds of silence, then scratch scratch again. Drive is healthy (tested), fairly new, works great. Anyone had this happen before that they could solve, or any troubleshooting tips?