Clicking sound on hard drive

[glasszon]

One of my raid 1 hard drive decides to start making clicking noise consistently yesterday night, I can still access the hard drive's contents, but it's WAY slower than usual.
I tried turning all the process off and it still keeps on doing it, is my hard drive dying?:eek:
I tried to find a software to check on my hard drives but I can't find one that works with RAID.

By the way, some of the data on that RAID is crucial, that's why I run on RAID 1 because if those data goes missing, it will take me at least a few months (if not a year) to gather the information again for my University project.

Thanks for everyone's help. :)

[SeasonalEclipse]

Yes it probably is dying. Id back up ASAP and look into the warranty on it.

[glasszon]

Yes it probably is dying. Id back up ASAP and look into the warranty on it.

:cry: It was a seagate hard drive so it got a 5 year warranty, the only problem now though is I don't know which one is broken, since as you know in RAID 1 both hard drive have the exact same contents and I can't tell which one are making the clicking noise.

[bchur83]

Unplug them one at a time to see which one it is.

[glasszon]

Unplug them one at a time to see which one it is.

Thanks, :beer: guess I am just too scared to think properly right now because I will be in a lot of trouble if I lose those data.:bang head
Will update once I get home and try it out, currently at work.

[Mr.Guvernment]

move them apart a bit or keep em plugged in outside your case, and listen, it should be easy to tel which one once they are apart and not stacked close together

[jason4207]

You have RAID1 so you are pretty darn safe. If the drive fails you still have the other drive there w/ all the data on it. Go ahead and submit an RMA, and see if they'll cross-ship. Then just wait for the new drive, and rebuild your array.

[sk1llz]

Yeah, you shouldn't even worry, just do as jason says. RAID1 is made for these kind of situations.

[Mr.Guvernment]

This is one of those times you know your thinking to your self "dam i am glad i did raid 1 and not raid 0"

[glasszon]

Thanks for everyone's help, I think I found which one is causing the problem, but I will confirm tomorrow just make sure I didn't keep the bad one and send back the good one lol.

I totally agree this situation shows perfectly why there is never a bad thing to run RAID 1 (except benchmarking of course :) )

[usp8riot]

Could also be your PSU. I've had two PSU's fail on me and both times I had a clicking or as I'd call it, chirping sound from not all of the drives but just one. It wasn't the HDD running out of juice but my PSU although I was convinced at one time it was, until I contacted Seagate. I replaced the PSU and no more noise from the drive and no more occasional read/write errors.

[freeagent]

if its slow to access, its probably dieing, but my hds click when i use vista. it drives me crazy. xp is fine tho.

[usp8riot]

Also, probably not the case, but could be a virus. I've heard of it doing it and a family friend had a pc that done that until I checked their drive for virus and they had a ton. Needless to say, I reformatted the drive and reinstalled Windows and although still a noisy old drive, it didn't get that specific type of clicking anymore.

[glasszon]

My hard drive is back and in working order now, it is indeed the hard drive causing all the chaos, after I rebuild my RAID 1 array, everything is working perfectly once again. :)