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Old January 1, 2010, 05:43 AM
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I cant remember if this is normal or not i have forgotten. My hard drive makes this clickin noise i notice a little lag in opening something when this happens like its reading it or something im wondering if this is a issue of it being idle and just spinning?
arghh googling it just makes me sad as people say its a sign of failure ive already replaced the 320gb and the 500gb is less then a year old the 320 is 7200.10 and 500 is 7200.11
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Old January 1, 2010, 05:54 AM
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I have drive that click and work fine for many years but i also have drive that started to click and then died. it seems to be luck of the draw
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Old January 1, 2010, 05:58 AM
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haha thanx gingerbee i think its normal i been using my headphones a lot lately so thats why i cant remember if itsn ormal but i believe ive heard it before its like a click or two a day. ill back up everything just to be on the safe side.
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Old January 1, 2010, 07:07 AM
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For a seagate it's normal but for other disk that have acoustic management it can be a problem.
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Old January 1, 2010, 05:26 PM
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My Seagate 640 has always ticked from time to time.... doesn't seem to affect performance and it's going strong for years now
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Old January 1, 2010, 05:27 PM
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I've had some hdds that tick and have died and others have just worked fine.
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The clicking noise started on one of my 2 WD 640gb drives in RAID, the next thing happened was a working RAID all of a sudden fails.. That was with a WD, but Seagate I got no clues. Although my WD 250gb I had for 3 years, did click from time to time, but worked flawlessly..
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Old January 1, 2010, 06:18 PM
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From my experience Seagate HDDs chirp. The .10s were the worst. Down right annoying, as my case sounded like a fricking bird cage full of budgies (that was when I started yanking Seagates and going WD more and more)! I'd still run the long version of seatools scan on em to make sure, but it will most likely come back as fine, but its better to be safe than sorry. :)
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Old January 1, 2010, 06:29 PM
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yea i ran seatools Akg everything scanned fine i think its normal but ive backed up everything just to be on the safe side.
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Old January 1, 2010, 06:31 PM
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Yeah, mine has checked out fine a few times now on long runs with Seatools
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