VelociRaptor clicking?

InfiniteNoise

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It started to do that last night and I could feel the clicking when I put my hands on the case.

I checked with HD Tune and Ubuntu's disk monitoring tool and they both reported the drive as healthy.

Should I be worried? I guess so since it started to do that last night and from experience, I've had few drives die on me and they were clicking too prior to their death.

The drive is a 150GB VelociRaptor and I had it for 9 months.
 
Yes you should be worried (or not if you have a backup of the drive).

Raptors i've owned are noisy, but if you are sure it just started 'clicking' last night then it's on the way out.
 
I had some cheapo drive and within a month it started clicking, then it got worse and worse, a week later it was dead. But as has been mentioned, a clicking hard drive 99% of the time means its on deaths door.
 
Ive got 2 raptors 600gb Sata 3 in a test rig.

While there noisy they dont click. I have had drives click and click for there whole life. First check the drive with testing tools then RMA it.
 
Mine's usually quiet and never clicked at all until last night, it's much quieter than my Samsung F3 1TB drive (which is probably the most noisiest component in my PC)

I have tested both drives (just to be sure) and the clicking occurs when it's the VelociRaptor that's being tested/read/written to.

Time to RMA it, I guess, and this gives me a reason to buy an SSD. ;>
 
Constant clicking? My 300gb Veliciraptor has clicked now and then for about 2yrs now.. probably thermal calibration or something.
 
Justintime said:
Constant clicking? My 300gb Veliciraptor has clicked now and then for about 2yrs now.. probably thermal calibration or something.
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Same here on my 300GB. I contacted WD when I first heard the noise and they said it was normal. This was over 2 years ago.... Great drive.
 
Backup the drive, get another one for your critical work and use the WD until it dies, e.g. for downloads, it will happen ... better safe than sorry! It happened to me on a velociraptor, luckily when I noticed the clicking I was careful because a couple of months later I RMA'd it under WD warrenty
 
If you post a picture of the results from something like CDM, or ATTO. I could check these results against my Vraptor. Might show something. Only thing that I can think of.
 
Looks pretty close to mine:

vraptor2.jpg


Though not sure that proves anything.

Worth a try though.

The only time I hear mine "clicking" is running something like HDtune when it's doing the random test. Other than that, it's pretty near inaudible in normal use.
 
Idartalis said:
Hm, it's probably my case then, never noticed the clicking with my previous case (Xigamatek Asgard)

Apart from slow defragmentation, everything else seems fine.
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Could be the case (sorry for the pun). Noise is a funny thing.

Can't say I noticed my graphics card until I swapped from a double skinned steel / plastic case to an aluminium case. Then I realised how aggressive the fan profile in the twin frozer cards are. So designed a custom profile to keep the fan below 50% (games still never go much above 60C even with this). Now when I walk into my room, I wonder if my PC is actually on! Of course I then noticed my case fans, so these are now set at 75%. Even with an OC'd CPU and G/card, still things keep cool (mind you... never gets hot up here) sorry... I digress.
 
When one of my raptors went down it was a click then a vibrating noise... a whirring noise if thats hows you describe it.

My advice is to get a backup of any important data on that drive asap.
 
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