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Rinthe

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I got a SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive about 2 years ago i think.

I am using it as a media storage HD, and a few days i noticed one of the videos on it wouldnt open and i get an error and everytime i try to open the video, the harddrive makes this clicking sound and lasts for awhile, then i decided to Defrag it with O&O defrag tool, after the defrag, the video started working. The clicking sounds comes back from time to time. Any idea what is going on with the clicking and everything?

Thanks,
 
Rinthe said:
I got a SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive about 2 years ago i think.

I am using it as a media storage HD, and a few days i noticed one of the videos on it wouldnt open and i get an error and everytime i try to open the video, the harddrive makes this clicking sound and lasts for awhile, then i decided to Defrag it with O&O defrag tool, after the defrag, the video started working. The clicking sounds comes back from time to time. Any idea what is going on with the clicking and everything?

Thanks,
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if it comes back from time to time that is normal. All HDDs recalibrate as they work, sometimes even mine can click and clack for ten seconds (do defined time to start an emergency).

It sounds as if that video wasn't written to the HDD correctly. Delete and copy it again.
 
the clicking sound still comes when im listening to music files sometimes on the drive too, it never clicked before. Do i need to worry?
 
Run scandisk and tell it to scan for bad sectors.
If that doesnt sort it, use a tool like HDD Regenerator or Spinrite.
 
Rinthe said:
the clicking sound still comes when im listening to music files sometimes on the drive too, it never clicked before. Do i need to worry?
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IMHO, any new noise on a HDD is a bad noise.

It's a mechanical noise possibly signaling an impending mechanical problem.

Mechanical problems are not fixable by data recovery programs which means it will be expensive to recover any data.

You do what you want, but I would consider that drive compromised and unsuitable for storage.
 
I've had the same thing happen on a number of drives.
Most of the time it is the format or data losing its integrity which makes some parts unreadable.
ie the magnetic field becomes too weak.
This can cause all manner of bad behavior from the drive.
One drive constantly clicked the whole time it was being fixed by HDD Regenerator but at the end of it, a ton of bad sectors were found and recovered (it refreshed the data).
The drive is now like new again :)

The hotter a drive is, the faster the magnetic fields diminish so its a good idea to cool the drive well.
 
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