Click of Death???

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computermaineack

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Hi everyone. So, I just got two new OEM WD drives last week (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701), and after reading several reviews that within a week, the dreaded click of death was heard, I decided not to move my files over until about a week had passed. Anyway, I've got the two drives running in RAID 0, and this morning, as I was about to leave for school, I hear a clicking. I turn off the fan that is sitting next to the side for cooling (the side panel is removed for now) thinking maybe a wire got caught in the fan blades. However, the clicking persisted. I deducted it must have been the click of death, so I went to shut down my computer until I got home from school and could further assess the situation. However, about 45 seconds after the clicking started, it stopped. A friend today in school suggested that the clicking is just the drive spinning up and spinning down, and this happens alot, especially in RAID. I was wondering which it is: Click of death, or me being paranoid :rolleyes:

Thanks for your help.
 
Bobo said:
Does your computer work fine?
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Yeah, but like I said, I didn't transfer much over to the new HDD's. Out of 500gb, I think I transferred maybe 20gb....and not stuff that runs normally. I transferred some video files that I never watch, and compressed the originals.
 
I don't think that there is anything wrong with it. If you are really concerned, download HD Tune and run the tests.
 
K, thanks for the help. BTW, if it is the click of death, how long will it continue to run before it dies, and would I notice any abnormalities when reading and writing to/from the disks?
 
I think that the click of death is all a myth. If it's dead, it's dead, there shouldn't be any slow dying process.
 
From Wikipedia:
Wikipedia said:
On non-Zip systems (usually a hard disk), the click of death refers to a similar phenomenon; when a hard disk has a hard error or servo failure, the head actuator will buzz and click as the drive tries to recover from the error. Since the media is not removable on these drives, the defect is almost always due to physical abuse or a manufacturing error. IBM's storage division had their own click of death problems in 2001 with the mass failure of their popular Deskstar, dubbed "Deathstar", 75GXP hard disks.

In more recent years, this term has also been used to describe hard disk failure in Apple's iPod.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
 
OK, I dled HD Tune and ran the test, and everything camp up okay (green), but all the while one of the two drives was clicking like crazy.

Is this just the drive spinning up, etc, or is it indeed the click of death?
 
I think I had a similar situation. I had an old IBM hd, which was installed on my Mac and it started to make a funky clicking noise when it would boot up. After a while the drive would not boot up. It would turn on fine, but it would not boot, it just made this clicking noise. I wiped it clean and used it as a back up drive in an external case and it worked for a while without problem, then the clicking started again. I transferred it from the external case back into my Mac as a 3rd back up drive. The funny thing is I gave it a good swat one time when it was in my external case and it started to work again and I've never had a problem since. Maybe it was the swat or maybe it was changing the drives position from being on it's side to laying down flat?
 
same here. i just wack it sometimes and everything is fine

(i called western digital just to check, and they said it is due to an offset servo, probably only offset by around 1/8mm)
 
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