Seagate dying?

[toolskizm]

Hey guys, so there was a storm the other night...I'm not sure if it caused the problem or not though. I can't really recall if it was doing it before or not. Anyway, I was installing Vista and I noticed that one of my drives sounded like it kept turning on and off. It would make the startup "click" and I could hear it spinning down and stuff. I have 5 drives in the case, so wasn't really sure which one it was. I think I narrowed it down to a 7200.10 750GB Seagate. It always has been a bit of a loud drive, but I think it's dying. The thing is, I'm not 100 percent sure that's the problem.
The clicking happens every so often and at first I thought I had too many drives on one cable coming from my power supply. It was strange, I touched and moved the cables around and the drive was clicking on and off alot. So, to the point...does this sound like a failing drive? I know it's hard to tell without actually seeing or hearing it. So then I'd like to know..is there a program to run and tell me like if one of my drives shuts down for a second or something like that? This way I could pinpoint the problem for sure and not be sending a drive to Seagate for no reason.

 

[MrWizard6600]

Speed fan actually has a nice little Hard Drive diagnostic tool, but all it does is a couple pokes and prods to find out how your hard drive is doing, nothing too extensive. The other problem is speed fan is pretty dead, the latest thing that all its features supported was Nforce 3. And its not a perticular fan of Intel chipsets.

Its called SMART, and heres a screenie:

S.M.A.R.T. is for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. First developed by Compaq, Hitachi, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital, it has been adopted by almost every manufacturer. While a hard disk is running, its internal logic encounters events and reacts to them to fix unusual or unwanted situations. By keeping track of them, we can know that something sometimes didn't work fine with our hard disk. S.M.A.R.T. extends this philosophy by analyzing several parameters and reporting them. Data reported by S.M.A.R.T. can include the number of retries when transmitting data to the computer, the number of spare sectors that were used to replace bad ones, the number of times the hard disk has been started and stopped, the internal temperature and much more. S.M.A.R.T. relies on attributes, values and thresholds. Based on them, a hard disk might be about to fail.

Anywho, give er a whirl.