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melojms
Mar 17, 2015Aspirant
Hard Drive noise on Time Machine
Hello, I have been using a WD Green 2TB on my readynas 102, and I use Time machine. But when Time machine is backing up, drive makes lots of noise. I just changed the hard drive for a brand new WD...
mobimation
Sep 22, 2015Aspirant
I think part of the noise was the NAS was busy rebuilding volumes while I did my Time Machine backup.
StephenB
Sep 22, 2015Guru - Experienced User
mobimation wrote:
I think part of the noise was the NAS was busy rebuilding volumes while I did my Time Machine backup.
That would create a lot of disk thrashing. Fans would likely run faster too.
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