Hard drive Question
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Hard to say for sure without hearing the clicking sounds.
Might be worth downloading HD Sentinel, it will give you some handy info on the drives health: http://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
Might be worth downloading HD Sentinel, it will give you some handy info on the drives health: http://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
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+1 to using sentinel or something similar to look at the drive's SMART information. Look at the stats for CRC error count, uncorrectable error count and error and check they're listed as 'okay'.
But as Moon says clicking is ambiguous. As a rule of thumb, if there is just one click on its own now and then, you're okay. But a repeated sequence of clicks is indicative something is wrong. Some comfort can be taken from the fact that the infamous 'click of death' is usually a repeated sequence of clicks and is always very dammed loud; you'd likely know if the drive was very close to failure.
But as Moon says clicking is ambiguous. As a rule of thumb, if there is just one click on its own now and then, you're okay. But a repeated sequence of clicks is indicative something is wrong. Some comfort can be taken from the fact that the infamous 'click of death' is usually a repeated sequence of clicks and is always very dammed loud; you'd likely know if the drive was very close to failure.
clicking in a HDD normally means its on its way out.
when its clicking does the PC fail to boot does the PC have any issues running?
check the health of the drive with HD tune but if I was you I wouldn't keep anything on the drive that you cannot afford to lose!
do you know if the clicking noise is coming from the HDD itself or something else in the PC?
when its clicking does the PC fail to boot does the PC have any issues running?
check the health of the drive with HD tune but if I was you I wouldn't keep anything on the drive that you cannot afford to lose!
do you know if the clicking noise is coming from the HDD itself or something else in the PC?
No, when it does, it boots after a few sec of it clicking.
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Those stats seem like good news, alebit there are a few errors occurring. Two questions: a) are the clicks sequential, or are there just one or two? b) how old is this drive?
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Your drive is currently fine, but it may be having the odd bit of difficulty when it tries to move the read head to a particular location. That could theoretically be caused by an underlying issue which gets worse. But there's no cause for serious alarm.
Still... if it were my drive I'd listen for increasingly frequent or loud clicks and check the SMART information every few months.
Still... if it were my drive I'd listen for increasingly frequent or loud clicks and check the SMART information every few months.
I will keep an eye on it.as i said don't keep anything on the drive you cannot afford to loose as if it does go you may loose what is on the drive and may result in a expensive data recovery.
keep an eye on it, backup the data so if it does fail at some point you are then covered.
keep an eye on it, backup the data so if it does fail at some point you are then covered.
I'd personally steer well clear of Segate harddrives. In the last 2-3 years, they've taken a noise dive in terms of reliability in my opinion. A lot of people like Western Digital drives on here in terms of reliability, but I like Toshiba drives - once called Hitachi and before that, IBM.