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Post Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:23 pm   Post subject: Hard Drive issues Reply with quote Back to top  
So one of my hard drievs has been making a weird clicking noise lately. I have a feeling its on its way out. The problem is that I have three hard drives all in a row in my case and no real way to be able to tell which one the sound is coming from.

So is there any other way I can tell which one is going?

Any suggestions at all about the situation?

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Post Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:59 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Do you have fresh backups?

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Post Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:07 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Make/model?

Maxtor and Seagate both have software you can use on the drive to give you some sort of status about their drives... Wink Smile

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Post Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:14 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Unplug two of them, see if the 3rd one clicks, if not plug another one in....

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Post Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:57 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I have an old school Maxtor 20gig that has always made the most awful clicking noise, but not all of the time. It still keeps part of my file server happy.

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Post Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:19 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
BamZipPow wrote:
Make/model?

Maxtor and Seagate both have software you can use on the drive to give you some sort of status about their drives... Wink Smile


Western Digital something....

The data on it is not vital. Mostly like media files and the stuff that I would really want it already saved somewhere. I wouldn't be heartbroken if it went bye-bye, but I wondered if there was a way I could figure out which one so that I could replace it before it dies.

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Post Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:46 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
MattSharp wrote:
Western Digital something....


Say no more.

You answered your own question as to whether or not it is going to crap on you.


Seriously...
If the clicking is non-stop, from boot to shutdown, just plug one in at a time to isolate the trouble drive.

I have a 2GB SCSI drive that makes a godawful clicking sound. It doesn't work. I had a western digital full of porn that made funny noises near the end of its one year life span.

Backup if possible and enable S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) within your BIOS if not already enabled.

Unfortunately if S.M.A.R.T. comes back bad during boot the drive in question is gone already or very sketchy.

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Post Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:13 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Hehe, yea I don't think I will buy a WD again. It's not clicking all the time. It happens quite randomly for like 7 clicks and then it stops.

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Post Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:39 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Did you check out if it was still under warranty? Wink Smile

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Post Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:36 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
BamZipPow wrote:
Did you check out if it was still under warranty? Wink Smile


No, but I will Smile

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