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Raptor clicking, please help

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About a month ago I built a new computer.
It has brand new 2x74Gb 10k rpm raptors in raid0.
Only about 2 weeks ago, the raptors started clicking. All the symptoms of drives simply falling asleep, after about 10 min of inactivity. I start a task that needs to access the harddrives and there's a 2-3 sec pause and a spinning up sound, then a click and everything is back to normal. I can't for the hell of it figure out why this is happening, as it hasn't happened before. The only thing that I can think of is that I have recently changed the memory and updated the bios.
The motherboard is Abit AN8 sli bios 1.6. The drives are powered through the second PSU (antec 430, also powers 2 pata drives, 2 dvd drives, 7 120mm case fans and 2 fan controllers), which is juryrigged to be started by a second independent power switch.
Please help figuring this out.
 
Did you update the BIOS to address another issue? Try the old BIOS if not. Also see if there are any power management settings that may be allowing the disks to spin down. Is your secondary power supply on at all times?
 
Something as simple as "parking" noise perhaps? Some cases don't isolate drive noise as well as others.
 
My 74gb Raptor just started doing this yesterday after about six months of use. I can hear it writting for a few seconds and then I hear a clicking sound. The drive is not powering down but just making a click sound. It seems to only happen while idle or not under heavy stress.

I have not updated my bios since 5/20/05 and it just started.
 
R1ckCa1n said:
My 74gb Raptor just started doing this yesterday after about six months of use. I can hear it writting for a few seconds and then I hear a clicking sound. The drive is not powering down but just making a click sound. It seems to only happen while idle or not under heavy stress.

I have not updated my bios since 5/20/05 and it just started.
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I read some posts here and at storagereview.com where people said that such a behavior might be due to the drive powering down. How do you know that yours isn't? We need to get to the buttom of this.
 
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