SMART says all of them are fine 
(3 hitachi, 1 seagate)
(3 hitachi, 1 seagate)
My HDD is dying (clicking sound), i have 4. How to know which one is making clicking sound?
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Michellstar
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He is scared of the Gremlins inside the case
Use a listening stick... eg: put your ear on one end of anything solid (wooden spoon, stick, whatever) and rest the other end on each disk in turn.
The sound will pass along the stick. To be honest if it's clicking you'd probably be able to tell just by touching it and feeling the clicks.
It's hard to imagine you couldn't work it out by just taking the side off the machine and listening tbh - or do you really need a software solution?
The sound will pass along the stick. To be honest if it's clicking you'd probably be able to tell just by touching it and feeling the clicks.
It's hard to imagine you couldn't work it out by just taking the side off the machine and listening tbh - or do you really need a software solution?
But they should be no problem unless he throws water inside the case.
Found the broken one. It need 5 minutes just to complete DST.
Gonna swap the power cable later today to see its a simple power problem or it is indeed broken.
Gonna swap the power cable later today to see its a simple power problem or it is indeed broken.
Oh so NOW you've found the energy to pull the power cable!
I'd back up that drive ASAP if there's anything remotely important on it, because simply power-cycling it isn't going to fix it if it is having the kind of problems you describe...
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i changed the power from SATA to MOLEX and now its working fine.
(this HDD is very old, in the early era of SATA, so it have 2 power connector: Sata power and Molex)
i changed the power from SATA to MOLEX and now its working fine.
(this HDD is very old, in the early era of SATA, so it have 2 power connector: Sata power and Molex)
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youve had a 2tb drive since the time the biggest hdd was 200mb that makes no sense.
It hold very old data. Data that originally came from an Era where 200MB hdd was the max.
I think I should have put a comma somewhere on my original reply
tongue_of_colicab
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Right so in that case wouldn't it make sense to backup that 200mb somewhere instead of keeping your fingers crossed you solved the problem?
It's already filled to the brim though. So I will need to buy another 2 TB hdd that is bloody expensive
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Why on earth are you keeping an ancient HDD for 200MB? A flash pendrive can store that, multiple times over, with loads of room to spare. Or, google drive it. Don't we get gigabytes for free...?
Why on earth are you keeping an ancient HDD for 200MB? A flash pendrive can store that, multiple times over, with loads of room to spare. Or, google drive it. Don't we get gigabytes for free...?
Silent_Buddha
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i changed the power from SATA to MOLEX and now its working fine.
(this HDD is very old, in the early era of SATA, so it have 2 power connector: Sata power and Molex)
If the data on there is important to you, get a replacement drive ASAP. Or find someplace safe you can backup all the important contents.
The click sound is caused by the drive heads not operating properly. Either reseating into the safe position (IE - not over the actual disk platters) or getting out of the safe position. It's possible the molex connector might be providing just enough extra power that it's able to overcome this, but it's only going to be temporary.
As well, since the heads, more accurately the motors that drive the heads, are starting to operate erratically, there's a small chance that they will eventually impact on the disk platter itself during one of the "clicks" and/or it won't be able to return to the safe position before the platters spin down at this point there will be physical damage on the drive platters which means permanent and unrecoverable data loss. I've had that happen to me with a Seagate drive that I failed to replace quickly enough once the clicking started.
The karmic gods have given you an opportunity to save your data. Don't waste it.
Get a replacement drive or a method to backup your data ASAP.Regards,
SB
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