- Dec 11, 2012
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I installed one of these about a month ago and every minute like clockwork, the drive would emit a kind of loud "click." Not the louder "click of death" but I didn't want to take any chances so I got another one (returning the old one to WD). The replacement is the exact same 00SPEB0 firmware. It does the ticking sound every minute also! My Acronis Drive Monitor program that shows quite a few SMART values in real time is showing the Load/Unload Cycle Count going up by one each minute. Temperature and all other values are fine. It does this noise when unpartitioned (brand new out of the box), partitioned with full formats of each partition (readied for data storage), and then when data is on the drive. I did full chkdsks on the first drive with a ton of data loaded on it and chkdsk reported zero problems (four partitions total - all were OK). This WD Green drive is to be a backup drive for a WD Black 4.0TB drive which by the way does NOT make clicking noises and its Load/Unload Cycle Count is still at zero.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm going to lookup the "load/unload" for what it means but it sure seems like the drive should not be doing that, right?
Thanks!
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm going to lookup the "load/unload" for what it means but it sure seems like the drive should not be doing that, right?
Thanks!
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