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March 1, 2014 6:31:37 PM

I've noticed recently while playing games such as Minecraft, CoD, DayZ, GTA, etc.. That my Hard Drive will usually make a clicking sound continuously until I close the game. This doesn't happen when doing anything else other then gaming, and it's a bit strange. My Hard Drive is a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.10RPM Drive, I don't notice any performance issues that I know of, and everything seems fine it's just that you hear a clicking sound when playing games, I really don't know what to do and I have about 300-400GB's used in games on this drive, so I really hope that I don't have to RMA it or anything because my internet is 5mb download, and 0.50 upload, it will take ages again. Please help, thanks!

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March 1, 2014 6:44:49 PM

A clicking drive is a potentially dying drive.
Buy another drive, and copy your stuff over. If you have to RMA the original, you have your stuff. If you don't have to RMA the original, hey....you have more storage space.

But if it's making weird noises...it is dying.
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March 1, 2014 7:00:00 PM

USAFRet said:
A clicking drive is a potentially dying drive.
Buy another drive, and copy your stuff over. If you have to RMA the original, you have your stuff. If you don't have to RMA the original, hey....you have more storage space.

But if it's making weird noises...it is dying.


It's strange though because I have two of the same exact drives, and I swear I noticed it before on my older drive, but never thought of it, so I wanted more storage and got another replica, and it does the same thing. These HDD's are no more then a year old... It's a shame, and it's ONLY when playing games that I notice it, and it's just barely loud, only loud enough for me to hear it obviously, so do you still think it's a bad thing and maybe I should contact Seagate or what?

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