Seagate Barracuda 1Tb clicking noise

[xparade0de]

Your >1TB drive does realy work a bit ? - I am wondering - I have installed 8 and only the extern from Toshiba without energy saving is working. I have given it up to install a new hard drive. Yes it is taking a long time to load (sometimes) - often so long that theire comes a blue screen or huge sectors get lost ! When they are new they work sometimes, but after they are full they crash my system ! I hate energy saving hard drives !!!

[iworkforbudlight]

oboy I hope mine dont make noise, just did a installation video

[Marek270409PL]

Use CC49 firmware

[xparade0de]

@Marek270409PL Firmware - I urgent suggest - NO don´t do this ! Do not update the Firmware ! You lose Your warrenty ! I have tryed it and it doesen´t work.

[BrettsiPodHelp]

mine has this too... ugh

[TheNovum]

The sound of never buying seagate again...

[BoDyShor]

this is hell , 2 hard drivers baracuda 1 tb , all crased whith that noise

[xparade0de]

@BoDyShor Only 2 hard drives crashed ? Have You ever get one that is working without blue screens ?

[mtsn]

C:\>PARK C:

[dq476]

i have a 750gb seagate 7200.12rpm sata drive in this pc as primary OS drive running win 7 ultimate 64bit it runs 24/7. i love it.

[xparade0de]

@dq476 The old ones are working but none of the energy saving ones i get is working

[gcbzzzz]

the sound mine does is much lower. and only during write. started about two months after i bought. never freeze or anything.

[Johnnii360]

This HDD does have "Bad Heads". One word: RMA. :)

[hardgoree]

i have 7200.12 firmware CC46 but it isnt normal

totally useless.

[b07l1k3destroyer]

I'm having the same problem. The disk starts clicking and it freezes for some seconds then works normally again for some time... I'ts a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB with CC38 firmware. I'm running HDTune tests now but even if it shows nothing I'll still return it and even try to change it for a 1TB WD Caviar Black or a Samsung. SeaTools couldn't even run the tests! Damn this drive is only 2,5 months old... Seagate + Maxtor = bad sh*t happens...

[SOLIE6226]

that clicking noise is a built in extra that seagate was hoping would take off for the Mp3 crowd it's a built in Metronome to help Sync the Music thats downloaded to it ! Seagate failed !!

[RA9ODE]

one or more head is bad, usual for 7200.11

It would be necessary to have already in view of what than more volume is more strongly it heated

[mmacritics]

Okay my harddrive started clicking like this 2 days ago. I unplugged it and since then it wont start. If i do try to start it, it makes a few clicking sounds but the spinning never starts so it shuts down after maybe 10-15seconds. (The computer does not recognize it either)

Could anyone help me?

//mmacritic

[macrumpton]

@mmacritics

It depends on the problem, but I recovered my 1.5TB seagate freeagent by putting it inside a ziplock bag in the freezer for a couple of hours and then starting it up. I got all the data off it using icepacks to keep it cool.

The drive I replaced it with seems to have a similar problem but with a clicking noise like the drive in this vid and it will not start even after freezing.

[mmacritics]

@macrumpton ok thx.

[xparade0de]

@mmacritics send it back as long as you have warrenty - my dealer has given me the money back after 4 times (raid system) - don´t give up

[UntakenNick]

Is it normal for a 1TB 7200.12 to make a click at power on/off..? I now it's normal when it shuts down but not at startup..

[snehasispatra]

@UntakenNick I think its normal. I got two 7200.12 with same noise at start -up and turn -off. One of them was making continuous clicking sound n had developed bad sectors, returned it n got another with same noise. BTW the failed HDD made same sounds as on the video.

[xparade0de]

@UntakenNick The clicking comes from the stupid energy saving function. I hate it ! It causes blue screens and data loss !

[deejay350sl]

HWCEagleEye what model is this and whats the firmware?

[FANNYLEROUX]

I have the 1.5tb hard drive and have had constand problems with it. Firstly the connection to the drive went, which means that i had to take the drive apart and leave the outer casing off, this is the 2nd problem within 6 months, widows will recognise the drive, but says it needs to be formatted for it to work, however, formatting the drive does fail too. So i dont know what is up with it. If it is the click of death then im not happy with it one bit and won't be buying from seagate again.

[macrumpton]

@FANNYLEROUX I had 2 1.5TB seagate drives fail in less than 2 months.

[Jmster1]

the drives dead.

[tehboriz]

hey i've got the same thing cept on bootup. it's pretty cool, it's like you can hear your life force drain away!

i had 1tb on my seagate... with 0 backups (waiting for my backup drive to get warranty repairs)

the chances of 2 drives dying on the same month, (new ones) makes me doubt if it's worth living.

[wdowa94]

Damaged head

[FerralVideo]

It's either click-of-death or bad sector hell.

Run a full surface ScanDisk on the drive -

and run again frequently.

If the bad blocks continue to grow, warranty the drive.

[aleonso1992]

I have the same problem as I command the shop to have it mess up the ass

[SMRDcompany]

I just got a Seagate 1TB a day ago and I only heard the clicking noice during XP install and startup after install. It was really quiter also. The drive is top quality for me, no issues whatsoever. But I heard a lot of people complain about them whitch got me thinking is it a good idea to go with seagate but in the end I did the right thing the drive is really awesome :)

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

I have had a lot of drives go bad over the years. Old seagate and connar drives really do last while old WD crap out. IBM sucks the most.

[coolie4u]

That is true with the old drives, with current drives though Seagate is the worst choice possible.

Today I had a FreeAgent Desktop (7200.12) getting the click-click-click-fail all of a sudden. Search youtube for "Clicking Seagate"

IBM was horrible but the new buyer Hitachi seems to have gotten things better, I have only used a couple of modern Hitachi drives so I can't judge their quality yet.

I would recomend WD or Samsung, currently Seagate is the new IBM DeathStar.

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

I made a vid a few hours ago about and ancient IBM winchester that I found at my local college. Its massive but any way you are spot on about modern drives. There is one thing I have noticed is that WD drives except for a few do tend to degrade in performance after a few months to a year worth of use.

[xparade0de]

@coolie4u Yes my Hitachi extern >1 GB does work a bit, but after now using it for a while it is now causing the same blue screens - i hate energy saving hard drives ! The old Toshiba drive with over 1 TB and without energy saving mode work´s well.

[ScottieNiven]

My seagate external desktop drive makes the same noise sometimes. Not sure why, but turning it off then on again works.

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

I just got the 7200.12, made deeper clicking sounds before failing only a day after installing it!!!

[mancow2001]

Try a different SATA cable, it fixed the same issue for me.

[s4iko1337]

look at the s.m.a.r.t. value "reallocated sector count" with HDTune or somthing. if there isn't a 0 as Data it's a failure. then its the click of death :D

[jayguy173]

thats the heads moving and then parking

[strangletmuh]

seagate never let me down since my first computer back in 1995

[misterchuckle]

da clik ov deth

[lobster272]

mine makes that same sound

[tcko1012]

got a seefake 1T (st31000340NS) that die after 6 month of usage. this drive come with firmware ns05 which is part of the batch that has defect firmware issue. call seefake and they had me contacting i365 to do a firmware update, but instead, i365 open the drive and told me it was a head actuator problem and it cost $1900 to recover it.

we should all post a video of bad seefake hd on youtube to get their attention.

[nash3timemvp]

xtom1973 is a seagate rep i think hes always sticking up your seagate face it seagates new hard drives are completely carbage and are a complete waste of money and should be sued for millions buy all the poor people like myself who have had the unpleasent misfortune i having a seagate hard drive on there computers.hell jewish slave labour in ww2 build better quality products

[xtom1973]

"xtom1973 is a seagate rep"

thats why i say that there are drives with louder and annoying bearings from seagate.

see my comment to the other idiot. go, read the PC-forums.

[suomibubba]

my drive did that noise too. It finally died after 5 months.

[ajk321]

shit dude, mine dont do that, bad disk placement or sumthin maybe

[TBolt1000T]

Sounds Like your Hard drive has a Bad Disc or a Bad Head.

 Oh.. 1000 GIGS? Ouch...

[DeathShallRise]

saegate have a lots of problem with their 1tb hard drive, they failed after 1 or 2 months

[cheetawolf]

click of death. *1 terabyte? ouch...*

[HWCEagleEye]

I returned the drives already running a set samsung spinpoints instead.

[xtom1973]

your drive sounds faulty. RMA it, you have a 5 years warranty. try to find a hard drive with an as long warranty...

[HWCEagleEye]

The rumor is that Seagate has inherited Maxtor's poor (chinese) manufacturing and qaulity control practices. If people want HDD manufacturers to clean up their act stop buying their drives.

[ImmortalUniverse]

@HWCEagleEye

nonsense all my seagate drives work alright.

they are silent and fast and didnt cost a fortune.

ofcourse you can always have a defect with shipment or they dropped it in the store .

lol

thats why they invented RMA.

[dashwarts]

Why is it Maxtor and Seagate drives are so unreliable? some WD's that have been through a lot worse still work happily.

[uzaiyaro]

Seagate is shit. I've had a single hard drive die no less than three times. Not even going to bother getting a warranty as I've lost all trust in the fuckers.

[xtom1973]

sorry for your data. keep in mind to backup all your important data on different storage types and never the same sort of drives.

also keep in mind that seagate sells over 32.000 drives PER DAY. the failure rate is very low! on a mass product like this there are some common issues like louder drives with not so good bearings for example.

[immuki]

xtom, you are full of bullshit. i have never heard of any other harddrive failing right out of the box besides seagate and maxtor (owned by the same company). this wouldnt happen if seagate tested all of there harddrives before shipping. i know other companies do it, so why cant you? because you sell 32,000 harddrives a day? if you made that much, it wouldn't put a dent in your income to test them. Stop cutting corners, faggots.

[xtom1973]

get your facts right and go, read the forums. its a long way from the manufacturing to the people.

what are those guys on youtube without any knowledge and big mouths? not worth any time.

[immuki]

you seem to be implying that the harddrives dont come out of the factory broken, but are broken on the way from the factory to the consumers. i cant take you seriously if you are going to spout retarded bullshit like that.

[immuki]

Also, lrn2english. I can tell you are not American, and every seagate video I have seen has one of yor retarded comments on it. I am beginning to think seagate is paying you to do this.

[Freudian1980]

I just received two 1.0TB Seagate HDDs this week and the first one makes this noise every 30 seconds or so, however, does read and write data fine. It's also quite fast. The problem was that I was unable to format it with windows.  Seagate Disk Wizard formatted it fine.

The second disc sounded like that instantly as soon as it powered on, click, clunk, click and nothing other than that.

I'm returning both for refund and am going to buy locally. Western Digital Caviar Black is my nxt purchas

[Thunderbolt1003Fan]

no, get it sent in.