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Random, Single, Hard Drive Click

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Hello, I currently own a Seagate ST320005 42as SCSI disk device (At least thats what device manager says) Anyways, randomly through the day but more often when gaming specifically playing Star Wars the Old Republic, it will emit a seemingly random, single click. Rather loud too, what I don't get is neither Disk Check, nor Sea Tools shows any bad sectors, I don't have the money to replace the drive, and am wondering should I be worried as hell?
 
I just opened the case up, moved the cable to a different port on the Mobo, and checked the cables it seems to have gone away, will post if changes happen.
 
Just heard it again, still no errors attached to it in event viewer. No weird BSOD's or lock ups either.
 
I would err on the side of caution and backup anything important on the drive that's making the noise. Unusual noises from hard drives at random times are never good.
 
Usually a click represents the heads slamming into park, then getting back onto the disk to find track zero so it can properly find out where its at on the disk. Could be defective/dieing/worn heads.
 
Yeah sounds like it could be having tracking problems, I'd back up anything you value.
 
What you're probably hearing is a thermal calibration. As the drive heats and cools, the relative distances between tracks/cylinders will change ever so slightly, but it's enough to cause head positioning problems if it's not addressed. The drive will force the heads to seek to the extremes of its positioning range in order to make sure that seeks to particular cylinders are positioned properly.
 
I just did a disk check that took almost 7 hours, it never clicked throughout the entire check, is this... normal? That it only clicks while the OS is in operation?
 
T5 said:
What you're probably hearing is a thermal calibration. As the drive heats and cools, the relative distances between tracks/cylinders will change ever so slightly, but it's enough to cause head positioning problems if it's not addressed. The drive will force the heads to seek to the extremes of its positioning range in order to make sure that seeks to particular cylinders are positioned properly.
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Do all drives do this or is it specific to higher end scsi disks like his?
 
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