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I've been reading up a lot lately and people seem to indicate that the hard drive "clicking" noise as it seeks / accesses or whatever the heck it's doing is a for sure sign of an imminent hard drive failure.
Unfortunately my 700gig media drive has started to do this every now and then. If I pause a movie that's loading off the secondary drive and wait 20 minutes or more and then resume it, the click will almost always happen. It also happens every now and then when loading music off of the drive.
I'm worried because I think I've hit this problem because I use this drive a ton. I put tons of movies (file sizes from 700MB to 12GB EACH) and music on this drive and it's almost at capacity (around 200GB left. which isn't technically almost at capacity but I can fill 200GB very easily so it's nearing capacity as far as I'm concerned) but nothing is fragmented. I defrag the files often and try to take care of the drive as much as I can so I'm not sure why my hard drive is experiencing this clicking and file loading lag.
I'm worried that in backing up this drive I will just break a newer one by transferring 700 GBs in one go from one drive to another. So I have a couple questions:
1) Is my 700GB destined to break or could it possibly recover from the "click of death" if i format it and then restore the contents back onto it?
2) Do I run a risk of breaking a new replacement hard drive by transferring consecutively, a very large amount of data onto it in a short period of time? (say, 700GBs from my current clicking drive plus maybe more from DVD backups)
3) Is there even an easy way to backup 700GBs of data without using a hard drive?
I would appreciate any advice on if / when to ditch and replace the 700GB drive if needed, how to go about backing up the data if it does need a replacement, and the best way to go about replacing it with a new very large drive and copying the contents of the 700GB to a new HD, probably a 1TB model.
Unfortunately my 700gig media drive has started to do this every now and then. If I pause a movie that's loading off the secondary drive and wait 20 minutes or more and then resume it, the click will almost always happen. It also happens every now and then when loading music off of the drive.
I'm worried because I think I've hit this problem because I use this drive a ton. I put tons of movies (file sizes from 700MB to 12GB EACH) and music on this drive and it's almost at capacity (around 200GB left. which isn't technically almost at capacity but I can fill 200GB very easily so it's nearing capacity as far as I'm concerned) but nothing is fragmented. I defrag the files often and try to take care of the drive as much as I can so I'm not sure why my hard drive is experiencing this clicking and file loading lag.
I'm worried that in backing up this drive I will just break a newer one by transferring 700 GBs in one go from one drive to another. So I have a couple questions:
1) Is my 700GB destined to break or could it possibly recover from the "click of death" if i format it and then restore the contents back onto it?
2) Do I run a risk of breaking a new replacement hard drive by transferring consecutively, a very large amount of data onto it in a short period of time? (say, 700GBs from my current clicking drive plus maybe more from DVD backups)
3) Is there even an easy way to backup 700GBs of data without using a hard drive?
I would appreciate any advice on if / when to ditch and replace the 700GB drive if needed, how to go about backing up the data if it does need a replacement, and the best way to go about replacing it with a new very large drive and copying the contents of the 700GB to a new HD, probably a 1TB model.