Hard drive clicking

phatboyfat101 · 30 Apr 2010 at 15:38

Hi guys, I built my pc around xmas, working nicely but occassionally it will freeze for maybe 5-6 seconds then the hard drive will click, then it will unfreeze. I have my OS on one SSD and my main programs on another SSD, then all my storage on a samsung spinpoint 500gb drive. It happens mostly when I first startup the computer and open itunes, when I first click on a song, it freezes for 5 secs, hard drive clicks, then starts playing. Also happens when I do a search in the windows menu, I start typing something, freezes for 5 secs, hard drive clicks, then it performs the search. Not the end of the world, just annoying. any help or advice would be appreciated, cheers!

Phatzy · 30 Apr 2010 at 15:41

time to RMA your hard drive im afraid, back up all you stuff on the drive before it completely dies.

Redmint · 30 Apr 2010 at 16:33

Yep clicking is usually a pretty good sign that a HDD is on it's way out.

Mak3R · 30 Apr 2010 at 16:45

Clicking = end of disk!

I had a brand new one clicking and it didnt work at all

Dutchman · 30 Apr 2010 at 17:42

Are you sure it's not the fact that your disk is coming out of sleep mode ? Check your windows power settings and perhaps set your disks to never sleep and check it for a day or so
Run a chkdsk and see if it finishes and throws up any bad sectors

thingemajib · 30 Apr 2010 at 21:35

click, click, click, click, click, click, click, BOOM!

had to be said

Philtor · 30 Apr 2010 at 22:29

Buy a Western Digital drive ffs.

shahpor · 1 May 2010 at 02:24

philtorrens said:
Buy a Western Digital drive ffs.

This is by no means a guarantee for success.

While I agree the WD drive is a good one, opinion on this forum seems to be split between it and the Samsung F3 as to which is best.

andy_mk3 · 1 May 2010 at 02:29

Dutchman said:
Are you sure it's not the fact that your disk is coming out of sleep mode ?

This is what I was thinking, my computer often hangs if one of the drives has gone to sleep and decides to spin up again.

Audigex · 1 May 2010 at 04:09

philtorrens said:
Buy a Western Digital drive ffs.

Pointless fanboyism - The samsung's have a comparable failure rate to most other hard drives on the market.

matthab · 1 May 2010 at 06:45

Ive had loads of WD's fail on me and my fair share of Samsungs so i order on depending on price and performance.

A drive shouldnt click and cause the pc to freeze. backup your data run a smart test and chkdsk it and if they fail rma it.

ard-tullaich · 1 May 2010 at 11:22

Ive found seagate to be very reliable nd when i have had to rma there back up has been briliant

shotgun · 1 May 2010 at 11:30

I’m going to agree with everyone else sounds like your HDD is on its last legs.

Reaper652 · 1 May 2010 at 18:25

Happened to my old ipod HDD

Started clicking then gave a big thunk and never worked again. So as much as it sucks i'd say your HDD is about to go aswell.

gamesaregood · 1 May 2010 at 21:18

philtorrens said:
Buy a Western Digital drive ffs.

I had two WD drives fail in 6 months, took 8 weeks to RMA the first one!!!!

Would not buy one again, at least seagate / samsung RMA times are fast but they seem to both be much better for me...

Philtor · 2 May 2010 at 02:21

You don't mention the model of WD drive which failed. Generally WD make the best drives. I used to work in Seagate here in Northern Ireland and it's easy to see why their failure rate is so high. In all my years of working with and repairing machines, Western Digitial always proved the most reliable. Just my opinion mind.