HD makes a click

[mindaugas]

Wondering if this was normal for these or if it really is the "sign". I have 2 80GB Hitachi SATAII HD's, I am not sure if both of them do it, but every now and then they click. Drives work fine and are in a RAID 0 array. Nothing important is on them now, but I'd hate to loose both or one. Does anyone else have these drives? Do they click for you too? Thanks!

[Sjaak]

How loud is the click? How often does it occur?

[dark_15]

I have heard of certain drives making an audible clicking noise every once in a while without any problems. However, just to be on the safe side, download and run the diagnostic tools from Hitachi's website and run them just in case. Better be safe then sorry!

Hope that helps! :)

[mindaugas]

Its pretty quiet and very rare, I can't reproduce it consistently either, such as trying to extract a file off the array or something. I'm not too worried, but I will run the diag, thanks!

[Mr.Guvernment]

try a new 12v plug into the harddrive - disconnect other items on your PSU to make sre it is not too weak - if it continues the drive could be dying - try to back up things off it now while you know you can.

[Dukeman]

If the drives are not giving you any errors then the click is probably just the heads moving during idle time so they don't sit over any particular spot on the disc. 7200 and 10K RPM drives can heat up the platters under the heads if they just sit there so they tend to move around when idle, sometimes with an audible click.

[mort]

The only click Hd's may make afaik are when they go in powermanagement mode. My hitachi 7200rpm in my notebook for instance clicks a lot. Had a clickin IBM once, died soon after. Backing up important data on raid 0 system is something you should always do. Took me a complete lost of mail, loss, demos to realize that. Damn, then the price of a new hd means nothing :(..

[blackhawk397]

The clicks are just normal sounds that the hard drives make when they are "thinking".