What are these small and big "click" sounds in my hd??

[Im>bE]

Ive had this new supersilent hd with liquid or something inside it, for about 9 months,
and now it is periodically making small and big "click" sounds.

It started doing these sounds about a month back,
and it doesnt seem like it affects writing or reading.

I have placed the hd on firm, but yet soft 'feet'
so that it doesnt vibrate onto any of the towers metal. (thus more silent)

Maybe the liquid inside demands that it is tightly attached?...

other thing is that the temperature around it
might fall to around 5-15 degrees at night,
so can that harm it?
(since such things should have a room temperature)

It is a maxtor diamond plus 80 gig.

[sir_inferno]

for about 9 months

you've had it for 9 months now right?
and it's only recently been making noises?

does it do this when you access something, or in fact when you do ANYTHING. Is it random, like when the miggy is just sitting on the workbench with no processes rnning?

did you leave a magnet on it?  :-D

[CU_AMiGA]

uh-oh! Another Maxtor Hard Drive case.

[voytech]

A maxtor you say.. Men, get your warranty, or receipt, and go get a new one! I had a maxtor, with the same sympthoms, and it did crashed totally after about 10 or 11 months.. First it started to make those small clicks, afer reading or writing data on it, it was something like: "wzwzwzwzzz(thiswzwzwz  is when I accessed the disk) click, click, click". Then teh clicks sounds were more intensive (disk was very silent), that i could hear them even the case was closed. And finally the disk died, I couldn't do nothing, it was starting to spin, but no sound of heads moving, it wasn't even recognised by my computer. Guy at store service told me, that there was something wrong with the electro magnet heads servo, I did an additional pay and exchangged it for Segate Barracuda V and it rocks bout a 1,5 year for now . So, I don't want to scary you, but you should think about exchanging this, and  getting new one, and not a Maxtor brand .

[that_punk_guy]

... I've used Maxtors for years without a problem. I don't think you can really say all HDs by a particular manufacturer are bad because of a couple of bad experiences. Hard drives occasionally fail - that's life, I'm afraid.

[Madgun68]

All of the maxtor drives I've owned have eventually started making clicking noises. I have a 30Gb drive sitting on a shelf for that reason, and there's another drive (either 20Gb or 30) in my 4000T that's starting to do the same thing. (Makes noises on accesses sometimes.)

Don't know exactly what's going on with the drive, but I usually wind up replacing the darned things as soon as I can before they get worse.

If I were you, see if it's still under warrenty.

[CU_AMiGA]

Samsung sounds like a better mint! :-)

[sir_inferno]

bought two ibm hard drives once. 120 gigs each, @ the same time they started going:

WIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

then they both died within a day of each other

 :-(

[Framiga]

@CU_AMIGA

the same suggested from my dealer (and friend) here in Italy.

Samsung= 3 years warranty.

Ciao

[voytech]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Samsung sounds like a better mint! :-)

No way Man! I've count bout a 19 Maxtor hdds that dided the same way as mine, and bout a 23 Samsungs drives that kicked off at my friends systems. I dont trust Maxtor and Samsung. WD and Segate's are the best I think. But of course, nobody has to listen me..

[CU_AMiGA]

People, am i right in saying that slapping two cream crakers on either side of a CD is more reliable than a Maxtor Hard Drive?

I may try Seagate next time.

[sir_inferno]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
People, am i right in saying that slapping two cream crakers on either side of a CD is more reliable than a Maxtor Hard Drive?

I may try Seagate next time.

depends, if the cream crackers are from "jacobs", then yes, if it's from sainsbury's value economy, i'm not sure...  :-D

[voytech]

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[CU_AMiGA]

:lol:

Jacobs, nothing but the best  :-D

[AMIGA-FAN]

Have experienced more or less the same problem a year ago, had to replace a faulty 40 GB Maxtor HD in my Win98 SE equipped PC running also Amithlon on a separate partition. One day the HD started to make some strange "clicks" which lasted about 2-3 months and at the end the HD definitely died. Since then I have always had a redunded system, with 2 mirrored disks, it has been a pain in the neck already having to reinstall all my Win98 stuff. I originally thought it could have been a faulty drive due, may be, to the shipping which wasn't carried out properly and that might have damaged the drive while on its way to me. Anyway, I still have an A3000 which, after nearly 12 years is still running properly where one of the installed HDs is a WD. So, forget Maxtor!