[OT] Hard Drive Clicking Noise for Hitachi Mobile Drives

[James Mckenzie]

Joel Jaeggli said:

>thermal recalibration
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>http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/actRecal.html
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You can also get a program called Drive Fitness Test (DFT) for some of the Hitachi/IBM Travelstar drives from Hitachi.  

However, if the drive makes a loud "clack-clack" noise like the hard drive heads hard parking, this can be a sign that the drive is failing.  If the noise sounds like a "click-click-click" noise, it could be the hard drive recalibrating due to temperature changes.  In any case, a good, verifiable, recent hard drive data backup is always a good thing.
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