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On 10/03/2015 05:32 AM, Mick wrote: |
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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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Some drives click from new, Toshiba laptop drives come to mind. However, |
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this Toshiba drive would only click when powered up. We are still using |
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this particular drive, and the laptop is 5-6 years old now. We tried |
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RMA'ing that drive and it came back no fault found, with a note that it |
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may click occasionally. (Design defect? Who knows...) |
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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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I agree, check SMART regularly. Even in a crontab (use cronie if you |
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power off a lot so it will run if missed.) You can also set up email |
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monitoring so it will email when tests run. |
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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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I have lost hard drives before and learned my lesson. My data is in |
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three different places, one being offline. |
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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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I hate SSDs for this. I've had two outright fail with no warning. When |
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they failed even SMART reported no errors! But it was obvious the drives |
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weren't writing the data properly. |
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> That said I've not yet had an SSD going sideways on me. |
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You are lucky. I had one fail in my laptop, and one in my main mythtv |
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frontend. Two different brands too. :-( |
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Dan |
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