HD Click, Pop! Is Bad?

[budwyzerferret]

About a year ago I bought a 12 gig western digital HD for $10 from a friend parting out a messed up PC and made it a slave to my original 15 gig. I reformatted it and have been using it for installing some programs and for media file storage. I noticed right away that it would occasionally go "click-pop!"

I just figured it was a noisier drive than my c: and thought nothing of it. I am not having any problems at all with the speed or errors/fragmentation on this drive, it performs great. Almost as well as my ultra dma c:

Then I saw posts saying that the noise is bad and that the hard drive could be failing. It then dawned on me that some days like today, it doesn't do that noise at all. Other days (mostly when the computer is idle or asleep) it does it quite often, sometimes to or three times in rapid succession. There is no grinding and the drive otherwise performs quietly and quickly. Like I said, it's been doing that for a year with no problems.

I backed it up just in case. Anyone know why a drive makes that kind of noise, specifically? "click-pop" always like that.

 

[poncho]

Yeah Im having a similar problem with my western digital jb 80 gig drive. The drive was clicking right from the moment I bought it. I haven't managed to find a solution to solve the clicking problem but have had the drive for approx 6 months now and have experienced no problems other then the obvious annoyance of the sound. I Inquired to a few places about it and I was advised to go to the power management and adjust the settings to always on, in case the clicking was a result of the drive shutting off and on. You could try this on yours however this had no effect on my drive. Anyone with any other ideas pls post

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[LumberJack]

As drives get old they tend to make more noises... 6 months is a bit early... keep an eye on your warranty and if the problem gets worse you can report it...



To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!

 

[orbz]

<A HREF="http://www.hgst.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/cffe836ed7c12018862565b000530c74/4b1a62a50f405d0d86256756006e340c?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,sounds" target="_new">Noises that indicate a defective drive.</A>

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[basmic]

Some of those sounds made my eyes water!

How could you have the heart to give out sounds like those, to such an errmmm....hardened and committed commnunity like ours? :redface:

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[flowmaster]

Two words..
Bad Sectors..
Bad Drive...
Blown drive...

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[Javic]

Man, I just listened to those sounds and talk about bringing back some bad memories!! What pain I just experienced!!

 

[orbz]

Those sounds give me the shiver and I would not want to heard them, but it gives you a good idea that if you hear it then your in trouble.

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[14Dx]

it is painful


If its not broken, you're not trying hard enough.

 

[flowmaster]

I once Had a 133 mhz computer that had a 2 gig hard drive and I put in the hard drive on the cable backwards and barely put the molex cable in and took the plate on the top off so I could fry my old computer. It was cool because it allways poped and caused bad sectors. well.. It went up in a big smoke and was funny to hear it whin and total blowup everything..

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