Clicking noise

[ghostmob]

alright my hard drive stopped working today past week it kept making a clicking noise every hour or so and now it just stopped working any idea if its fixable

barracuda 7200 1tb

 

[John_VanKirk]

Hello,

Clicking noises can be 'normal' for some HDDs. However you would have heard them from day 1.

When you begin to hear noises from a HDD, or the reading/writing becomes slower, that's not a good sign - time to safely back the drive up.
The fact that it stopped now means it has failed.

Here is a link to sounds of different HDD components failing.

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

 

[ghostmob]

i figured it was failing but was hoping was some way around it lol

 

[John_VanKirk]

You never know. Many old timers say 'hard drives are only a temporary mode of storage' and sooner or later they will fail. The only thing I know of with a predictable failure rate is a car battery, always fails 2 years and 1 day later, 1 day after the warranty expires!

 

[almartin]

John is right. It is time for a new HDD but make sure you get one with at least a 3 to 5 year warranty.. I hope you got your data backed up.

 

[ghostmob]

ya dont have data backed up but got one with a 5 year warranty stripped one out of my old computer until i get a new one from the company

 

[ghostmob]

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