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Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 disk accessing every second after boot

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbT9KbuCR3s

made a vid showing how often its accessing and you can hear the noise. This is right after bootup. I just got the drive a week ago, has around 120 hours of use. Right now its not making a sound and the LED might show access evey 5 seconds. I show the list of running processes at the end of the video as well in case anyone thought that would be useful. I have a few programs run at startup like MSI Afterburner for GPU overclocking. The thing is that I just noticed this drive making these sounds because I had to take out a case fan that was getting too noisy. If this drive was doing this all along, I guess I didnt hear it over the fan. I ran Passmark tests on it and it seems to be fine though

Is this normal? Should I wipe it and return it and get a better drive if I'm going to be gaming anyway(just want one single good 1TB drive)

Passmark score is 808.8. I saw 1 TB Samsung Spinpoints get around 875 (and are cheaper than what I paid for this drive).
 
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