Multiple HDD PC with random HDD "click of death"

Kabuuuum

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Jan 10, 2013
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Hi... first I wanna apologize for my poor english (using Google translator to help)
Then here is my question:
I have built my rig with an SSD for the SO and 4 512Gb seagate drives I use for storage that I took from other computers I had and lately, once in awhile, one of them (let´s cal it disk 1) starts to make the "click of death".
I turned off the computer and unplug that one from port 1 and switch with the disk 3 on port 3
For days it worked fine until disk 4 starts that scary noise... switched it with the nr2 and the disk 3 (that is in port 1) makes that noise to.
My guess is that 650W NOX psu, since the drives are working fine every time I switch them...
Am I right ?
 

Karadjgne

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Try the drives again, but don't use port1. Also, use different power connectors. Mark the one on a clicking drive and don't use that. Cables can have faulty connectors, but since all the drives come from the same source rail, its more likely if the psu was bad, all the drives would fail at the same time.