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4th November 2011, 17:47 | #1 |
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Hard Drive - Intermittent Clicking
I have a 1.5 Tb USB hard drive. Over the last month or so it has started to make clicking sounds. It will click between 5 to 10 times and then it stops. This only happens intermittently though. The gaps between the clicking sessions can range from 10 minutes to a couple of hours.
I have run a hard drive test utility and it says there is nothing wrong. I haven't lost any data and apart from the clicking it seems to be working well. I'm afraid it could be the first signs of an untimely end, but I'm wondering if there are any reasons a hard drive might make these clicking noises due to normal PC processes, rather than being and indicator of imminent tits up. Your views would be much appreciated. |
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4th November 2011, 18:57 | #2 |
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Back it up while you still can: this clicking you hear could be a sign of imminent hardware failure.
It may never happen, but best to err on the side of caution.
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4th November 2011, 19:01 | #3 |
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ouch. you sure you haven't run smartmontools? run extended. that and smart told me one thing .. Pending sector count means alot of shit coming your way if it's anything but 0. Lost two drives doing that. Lost 200 gb off 1 TB , didn't lose anything off the other thank god. caught it in time. And that was a brand new WD. Taught me one thing. Trust Hitachi. They aren't great, but WD. Ticking time bomb. their 640 gb drives were great. but the TB drives. not so much. The Hitachi 1 tb with Samsung memory chip not bad but have one with hynix thats scared me a few.
But Samsung drives (they were inside a Lacie at some point geeks * com even sent me a refurbished one with 15,000 hours behind it. It didn't work at the get go. Most drives become problematic beyond 10,000 hours. Seagate pure crap. One Samsung chip gets skin burning hot. I don't run him long. Fujitsu was great till they sold themselves to Toshiba. And I won't buy the Toshiba's because they won't honor the old warranties. SSD isn't exactly going to help things along. Many drives simply get corrupted so it's not mechanics.
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4th November 2011, 23:37 | #4 |
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Try running chkdsk is what i always do when I get the clicking
It usually prolongs the life a bit more by removing/ repairing but eventually death always comes backup for sure What this clicking noise I hear? Anonym zu tomshardware.com/forum/176404-30-what-clicking-noise-hear |
4th November 2011, 23:54 | #5 |
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It's coming close to the end of its life. To save money you can buy a new hard drive (7200rpm) or if you're not confident about opening the computer up then you can get a professional.
You can get 500GB 7200rpm HDs for around £120 I remember I had a client who brought me a hard drive with a clicking sound and he wasn't able to boot the PC up and received a boot error: "alert system fan not detected" press F1 to retry or F2 for setup. If you are hearing beeps upon starting up, I would check this website out.
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Another external drive of the same capacity (1.5 TB) can be acquired at a reasonable . I would get a new drive, and back up all files from the old one while this can still be done: recovering the files after a disk failure is hard work that is likely to involve having to take the drive in to an IT guy. I for one, wouldn't like some computer engineer going though all my files, and the cost would be higher than getting a new drive now.
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Another option would be buying an internal HDD and replace the faulty one with it as the external one is just (in most cases) a sata hdd connected to a pcb with usb interface. If you go this route, just make sure the external hdd doesn't have a proprietary interface before buying an internal one. |
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Very true. Western Digitals have shot up in price. They are expensive in retail now but if he searches online he will find some cheap ones. I don't trust eBay a heck of a lot so I would buy one of Amazon.
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5th November 2011, 01:33 | #9 |
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I use my internal HHD for applications only: all files live on my external drives. This makes perfect sense: if your computer has a problem and you need to take it in, there will be no embarrassing files on it, and if your external drive begins acting up, you can replace it without having to open up your machine.
The sad truth, is that a device that consists of a disk that spins at 4200 rpm or more is doomed to eventual failure and this an ominously regular occurrence: I'm sure that most of us have horror stories to tell regarding loosing data due to spinning disks dying on them. I place my hopes in SSDs (Solid State Drives): it won't be long before prices of these devices come down, and their capacity goes up. We spend a lot of time and effort finding the files we want and building up our collections only to see years of work wiped clean by disk failure: again, I say back up to another device your material as soon as there is the remotest possibility of the disk dying.
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