Seagate ST3640323AS Click noise on power-on, is this normal?

[shg222]

Hi,

I'm the "happy" owner of two Seagate Barracuda ST3640323AS HDDs; they're fairly new(under 8 months), but they keep giving me trouble.

From day one I noticed a strage clicking sound when the system is turned on and the only culprit seems to be one of the HDDs. It only happens when I boot the system, on power-on only, not when restarting and not during normal usage.

I made a recording of the sound by placing a microphone between the two HDDs. You can hear the system being powered on after second 2:00, at second 4:00 there's a noise made by the DVD-RW unit; you can hear the drives spinning up and around second 7.5 there are the clicking noises I mentioned. You can listen to the recording here or here ...

So, should I be worried about these noises? Are they normal?

Thanks for any info!

PS: I've also uploaded the SMART information on the two drives here and here .

 

[asrhael]

Hi, i have other seagate notebook hard drive with "Clicking noise" and some "beeps".

Now, i know why this occur. Please check the seagate forum.

In our case, the problem is generated by the AAM and APM function inside the hard drive, these function are explained for me in the last post of the seagate forum.


Regards,
Francisco Chávez