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On Saturday 03 Oct 2015 12:23:47 Dale wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > Recently I noticed that an old drive is clicking 3 or 4 times when it is |
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> > powered up. Thereafter is stays quiet. I think it is a mechanical |
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> > fault, because I placed the box on its side and the drive did not click |
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> > when booting up. |
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> > I ran smartctl short/long/conveyance tests and no errors are reported. |
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> > In your experience is this something to concern myself with? There is |
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> > not business critical data on the drive at present. |
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> I have found that if SMART reports a error, it is good to replace it as |
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> soon as you can. When a drive makes a noise that isn't normal, that's |
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> also a sign that you need to replace it. If you google around for that |
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> model of drive, you may can find where others have had the same and they |
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> shed some light on what happened, it died, it ran for ages and is normal |
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> or something else. |
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> Right now, backups would be a good idea. Doing some drive shopping |
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> would to unless google turns up something that says it is nothing to |
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> worry about, doubtful tho. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I don't know if I am getting more nostalgic in my old days, but it is things |
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like this that make me like spinning drives. More often than not they give |
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some kind of warning. :-) |
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That said I've not yet had an SSD going sideways on me. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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