New PC, hard drive clicking

keymoo · 15 Jun 2011 at 10:58

Hi there,

My brand new PC has got a SDD boot drive and a 1 TB data drive. When I power it on the data drive is "clicking" very loudly and regularly at boot for about 30 seconds, and then stops. The drive does not show up in the BIOS, or in Windows. Is it dead?

EniGmA1981 · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:01

Doesn't sound healthy mate... has it worked at all or is this a DOA situation?

I'd put money on this being RMA time I'm afraid...

keymoo · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:07

It's just arrived in the post and I've just built it, it's never worked.

TheEnosFam · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:08

RMA ASAP

keymoo · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:38

That's a PIA, oh well....

Moothead2 · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:42

It's gone. I bought a small 120GB drive for my dads PC not long ago and it was clicking as soon as I plugged it in. It worked fine but HDTune reported tonnes of bad sectors so I sent it back.

Buchanan0204 · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:49

Surprised the Caviar Black is duff. There very reliable drives. Maybe it got battered in transit, how was the packaging?

Owel.... anyway, buy a Samsung F3 to replace it. Just as quick and a fair bit cheaper

lrlcr · 15 Jun 2011 at 13:04

I wouldn't buy a samsung drive again. Noisy as hell in my experience. The WD blacks i've got are really quiet, check the drives smart data it is quite possibly just moving the heads as it powers up, or needs an RMA

Buchanan0204 · 15 Jun 2011 at 14:37

lrlcr said:
I wouldn't buy a samsung drive again. Noisy as hell in my experience.

Perhaps you just got a bad one... or even an older model. The new Samsung models are very quiet and efficient. I've installed something like twenty of the F3's 1TB in various systems and all have been quiet. As quiet as a 7200RPM drive can get anyway.

I've also used the blacks, there great drives. Just not worth the premium IMO.