Hard drive dying?

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ZacharyS

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When I watch videos and stuff from one specific hard drives, every now and then there will be a physical click from inside my computer case and then the video will stutter for a second or two. It doesn't seem like performance is slow, files are missing or corrupt, it just stutters.

The model is WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0

I don't really have the funds for a replacement at the moment, and I have no way to back these files up (it's a TB and it's pretty much full). Think I should really worry about it?
 
yes you should be worried. a clicking sound is never good. you sure its a clicking sound coming from that one hard drive? start thinking about getting another hard drive and soon.!
 
RMA the drive immediately.

Do an advanced RMA so that Western Digital sends you the replacement drive first to transfer whatever data you can from the bad drive to your current drive.
 
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RMA the drive immediately.

Do an advanced RMA so that Western Digital sends you the replacement drive first to transfer whatever data you can from the bad drive to your current drive.
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Wow, WD would really do something like that? That's the thing I was really worried about with an RMA is that I wouldn't be able to xfer stuff before hand so I was going to try to put it off until I could get a new one. And I'm pretty sure it's this hard drive, because I haven't noticed it happening from videos on the other 2 drives I have, and I don't have any issues with programs from my OS drive.
 
Syntax Error said:
RMA the drive immediately.

Do an advanced RMA so that Western Digital sends you the replacement drive first to transfer whatever data you can from the bad drive to your current drive.
Click to expand...

+1 to that! Yes, you need to provide a debit or credit card to secure the new hard drive but once you send the bad drive back then you only pay for the shipping. Makes it nice and quick. :D
 
I had a similar experience and it eventually led to losing about 1TB of data. Back up now! then RMA before its un-recoverable.
 
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