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texmaster

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I just got 2 500gb drives 32mb ram and the computer is about 4 inches away on my desk.

every now and then I hear 2 clicks about twice an hour from one of the drives.

I'm wondering, since I just got them, is this a failure waiting to happen and is there any test I can run on em to tell?

I'd hate to get a few months in and have it crash and burn on me.
 
i know the geek squad can do a full diag on the computer for 59 dollars. run chkdsk, you might have a bad sector. thats my guess thou.
 
Jedikid said:
i know the geek squad can do a full diag on the computer for 59 dollars. run chkdsk, you might have a bad sector. thats my guess thou.
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hahahahha. HAHAHAHAHHA. HEHEHEH. Thanks for that, really. I hope youre not serious. Go to the manufacturers website and often times there will be drive specific utilities that are useful for diagnosis / detection of errors or faults on a drive. Chkdsk will really do little. Find a SMART diagnosis utility, there are many freeware ones, and see if there are any errors on the drive, if there are, you can call the manufacturer and arrange an RMA.

You'll mail your drive in and theyll fix it and mail it back. Easy-cheesey. Nice and easy.
 
texmaster said:
I just got 2 500gb drives 32mb ram and the computer is about 4 inches away on my desk.

every now and then I hear 2 clicks about twice an hour from one of the drives.

I'm wondering, since I just got them, is this a failure waiting to happen and is there any test I can run on em to tell?

I'd hate to get a few months in and have it crash and burn on me.
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usually click click is bad, but it could also be a lose power cable, i used to have that problem till i figured out what it was, I would just go to where you bought it and exchange it since its new ^^ (after you check the power)
 
yeah its newegg. don't think they'll take it back with just a few clicks
 
Boom,
Just had too:p
Why pay someone to run free tools on your pc, anyway, just boot into windows cd, goto Recovery Console by hitting R, then do a chkdsk /r or download another type of hard drive software, there is tuns of them
 
both my raptors are doing this too :( but ive been told it was my psu...
 
xenotype said:
hahahahha. HAHAHAHAHHA. HEHEHEH. Thanks for that, really. I hope youre not serious. Go to the manufacturers website and often times there will be drive specific utilities that are useful for diagnosis / detection of errors or faults on a drive. Chkdsk will really do little. Find a SMART diagnosis utility, there are many freeware ones, and see if there are any errors on the drive, if there are, you can call the manufacturer and arrange an RMA.

You'll mail your drive in and theyll fix it and mail it back. Easy-cheesey. Nice and easy.
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hahaha i wasnt. i was going to see anyone would catch it. I forgot about SMART. but then again the only HDD to crash on me are Maxtor(years ago), and I'll never use them again.
 
This click, click is confusing me. I told this to my CS team with Cyberpower and he right away said it was a bad drive. However, mine is a Raptor 10,000 rpm, don't they make that grinding sound normally?

Not sure it's really a click click, but it could be. Just don't know which is which.
 
i have a wd 500gb one that clicks occasionally. SMART says that it is ok though. No bad sectors either.... Hey at least it isn't one of my os drives.
 
Jedikid said:
i know the geek squad can do a full diag on the computer for 59 dollars. run chkdsk, you might have a bad sector. thats my guess thou.
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If you do this, do not tell us, simply terminate your account and never return....that would be sad
 
KillRoy X said:
This click, click is confusing me. I told this to my CS team with Cyberpower and he right away said it was a bad drive. However, mine is a Raptor 10,000 rpm, don't they make that grinding sound normally?

Not sure it's really a click click, but it could be. Just don't know which is which.
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A 10K drive is significantly louder than a 7200RPM drive. If it's a constant almost "grinding" sound then it's the normal seek. If it makes a "tick" sound, that's much louder than the normal sound, then that's bad news!
 
Hurdler said:
A 10K drive is significantly louder than a 7200RPM drive. If it's a constant almost "grinding" sound then it's the normal seek. If it makes a "tick" sound, that's much louder than the normal sound, then that's bad news!
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I think I'm good. it's the constant grinding. I have to get used to it I guess, alot louder than the 7200.
 
I dont think I am because I have 2 10k drives in there and they aren't making noise loud enough to hear over this occational click click
 
texmaster said:
I dont think I am because I have 2 10k drives in there and they aren't making noise loud enough to hear over this occational click click
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That sounds sad then :(. I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but check your windows logs and see if there are any errors being thrown. Also, see if you can isolate the drive that's having problems, and RMA that bad boy!
 
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