Hard drive making clicking noises

[Happy Go Lucky]

It makes a clicking noise when I start the computer after a complete shutdown, it did this once before a couple of months ago, but now the problem seems to have re-occured. It passes the SMART test.

Any idea if the hardrive is on the way out?

If I have to get another one, I not sure whether to get a seagate or ibm, as my seagate has worked fine, but my 2 ibms have br0ken in some way albeit after a couple of years :/

 

[pharkie]

Not good

Clicking noise bad !

I had a 20gb HD only a few months old that got knocked and started clicking. It lasted a coupla days then was no more. Wouldn't answer to any my phone calls. Gone to the great Maxtor Heaven in the sky.

In my experience..clicking hard-drives are very baddd indeeeed..!

Hope that helps

 

[Happy Go Lucky]

Yes, I thought it was my main hdd, but luckily it was a WD 2gb hdd (freebie), I use just for win98. I take everything back about ibm, infact I need a new hdd.

 

[Yakkob]

I have had 2 IBM's 'break' on me.

I have since bought a Maxtor and a Western Digital 60 & 120Gb respectively.

No problems as yet *touches wood*

 

[Testin da Cable]

I've has maxtor's fail "out of the box". A grindy, clicky noise. I've yet to see one fail that worked first try though

 

[Will]

I've seen 2 maxtor hdd die. They don't take power cuts while writing to disc too well. My Seagate and WD drives have been fine, but that could be luck.

On the bonus side, I am getting a UPS for Xmas, so that should be a thing of the past.

 

[S-Gray]

isnt it Christmas now?

 

[Will]

When your flatmate goes shopping for a UPS on xmas eve, you normally have to wait a few days for it to be delivered.

 

[Insane]

I bet the 2gig WD is a Caviar model. i had 3 different hard disks suffer the same problem if you have any WD caviar models it might be worthwhile replacing it with a different model soon, especially if they work in a dry warm atmosphere!

It's to do with the bearings in the drive starting to dry up on you, you might be lucky and get a good year extra use out of it, or be unlucky and have it fail within 2 months of it starting. smart will report the drive fine because it cant measure bearing fluid

Maxtor i've never had a problem with, either on my own personal machine, or in the 500+ machines at work, but for what works for one user might screw up for another.

Personally I would avoid IBM drives until they get a very good reputation, after all the hassle with the numerous drive problems (was it the 60gxp model?)

I myself would promote the Maxtor D740x model (UDMA 133 7200RPM) because i run a 20gig and a 40gig model, and havnt had any problems with them.

of course, im going to throw a big stick in here

Tekram SCSI card (U160 standard - DC390U3W) for £129
Seagate Cheetah 10k.6 36.6gb for £175

fair enough, thats just over a £300 investment for "just a hard disk" and most people think its overkill to buy that, but once you have used a fast scsi drive, you wonder how you managed with IDE