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Posted by BillW50 on April 12, 2008, 2:23 pm
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Ouch typed on Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:13:21 +1200:
> The other day, I bought an external 500 gig Seagate Free Agent drive.
> It made a few clicking noises when writing data, so after some
> research on internet, I decided I would return it. So I purchased
> from another store a 750 gig Seagate FreeAgent drive. Now this drive
> does exactly the same thing, so I'm most reluctant to return this one
> because I know that Seagate is a very good brand and that all hard
> drives have to make some operating noises. A year ago, a friend
> bought a 500 gig Seagate Free Agent drive, and it makes no clicking
> noises at all when you write to it, so that's why I thought something
> might be wrong with mine.
> The Seagate drives come with a 5-year limited warranty, so you can't
> do much better than that. I am using the drive mainly for backing up
> home movie holiday captures, so it won't be in continuous daily use
> like some drives are. Has anyone else experienced clicking noises on
> external hard drives? Do such noises really indicate that something
> is wrong, or is the hard drive likely to operate satisfactorily for
> many years even with these intermittent clicking noises? Is there any
> software that I can run that will check out whether there is anything
> wrong with the drive? I have the feeling that there's not much point
> in swapping the drive again as all of them are likely to do the same!
> Thanks for your help.
Maybe this will give you a better idea on what is happening in a hard
drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMWG3fwiEU
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Bill
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