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Help: hard drive noise interrupting payback.

Posted by texastea006@yahoo.com (A) on March 22, 2006 at 12:01:50

I know someone here has experienced this so please read and let me know if you know where the culprit lies:
I put a Western Digital 320GIG hard drive in my pc, and although I can play music fine off the prexisting SATA drive with raid configuration, if my new hard drive is accessed, I hear a bunch of noise in the music.
This happens when:
1) I play music on my primary drive but do folder navigation or open pictures off my new drive.
2) try to play music off my new drive.
It's basically as if any accessing of my new hard drive translates into noise on my sound card and now I can't use the new drive to rip my music collection onto it. The specs on the Western Digital Caviar SE 3200JB are 7200 rpm , 8 MB buffer.

Could it be the power supply or the fact that the new hard drive is behind my dvd drive off the second ide cable?
I have a DELL dual core 2.8 Gb processor pc and am using foobar and an RME Digi2496 card with digital output to a dac. The RME card is designed to be extremely quiet and is supposed to have superb isolation from system noise, so it should not be the problem.

I know people have experienced this so hopefully someone has the correct answer to rid me of this problem so I can actually use the drive for the reason I bought it.
thanks!

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