#258 - Q&A: Strange clicking noise from HDD

[kght222]

i'm guessing the person who asked this question asked because the sound that they were used to had changed. regardless of anything you should always have your self created data backed up, and if you loose that data on one source be sure to duplicate it somewhere. but a change in the sound of your drives over time is normal, but it does signal midlife for your hdd, and that means the drive might fail at any time, or become unreliable. but dont panic just make sure that you are keeping backups.

[kght222]

@kght222 in other words all self created data (stuff you make) should ben in 2 places at least at all times. when i say self created data i mean files that you yourself make, not the programs you use to make them, even if your such a dick that you download all your software you can pretty much allways download it again, but if you loose a big part of you're phd thesis that you were writing on a combo of word and power-point thats gonna be a bitch. getting the programs back would be the easy part

[ImmortalUniverse]

i got 3 seagate drives , they all make a little noise.

not really loud clicking , just a noise that makes you know its busy.

like a spinning wheel inside or a lens that changes possition.

i bought the first seagate 3 years ago an external drive.

i even dropped it a few times .

IT NEVER CRASHES OR GETS BUSTED.

unless thee noise is really loud and annoying , i wouldnt worry.

[gangtrashsta]

hasn't this guy heard of the hard drive acoustic management

from loud to silence in a few clicks ¬.¬

[ToxicWaffe87]

seagate has a kick ass 500 gb hdd 2.5 for 80 bucks real affordable.

[ezuan88]

theres some sort of " thing " living inside the hardrive ,,, bring it to the scientist! fast !

[landraider101]

umm theres only 2 there

[Do0dMaN4K]

LOL all of the related videos are a bunch of random shit about animals! wtf does that have to do with hard drives??? Youtube epic fail!!!

[DefconComputers]

The best thing is the ad for the video. For some reason it gave me an ad for Hardee's facebook page?!

[wildwolves8]

I have a problem like that too,every time I'M moving my mouse,the hdd is doing a noise,it's very annoying.

[Tarrrrrrrennnnn]

I say what is that mysterious ticking noise? It's a pipe bomb yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[Vnix]

my ssd is making clicking noise OH SH.......

[nerfmasterrick123]

*fixed*

my ssd is making clicking noises OH SHI-

[Do0dMaN4K]

lol

[jesusmortal]

i love ur reviews but, neded a captions on spanish XD

[Goolz]

or you need to learn English : ?

[jesusmortal]

Probably

[MinimeDrummerBoi]

All these answers are nice and detailed, but I think it would be better if you just put all these questions/answers on one video rather than have like 100s' of videos of questions. Plus it'll make it more convenient on you and the viewers.

[MGlBlaze]

Actually, he already explained why putting all of these in one video would NOT be a good idea.

[Myztik7]

How is looking through a 60minute video for a 2minute answer more convenient then watching a 2minute video? :/

[thornygravy]

analborg penisburg

[Niosus]

this feels like telepathy! my harddrive started clicking yesterday and i was really wondering what it would mean... and today he just answers my question i didn't send ;)

Thanks man!

[Qulopuaa]

this has happend time from time sincerely I can say -dont reboot save the files you want on dvd or cd .If there are files that gets your computer freeze- those are gone. Just save things in small potions since there will come the lost file that basiclly freezes windows

[theshredda]

THUMBS UP if your hard drive makes a rattling noise whenever something's loading

[p3ntacle]

mine used to click a lot. Like someone was typing on it. It was off.

[MrDJLaw]

Its normal for it to make grinding noises its just the read write heads moving, but obviously no one wants that so get some frikin' WD Greens :)

[ikcti]

Thank god my 5 year old hard drive's still working with no noises :)

[alexjseguin]

hapenned to me a few times a while ago... some loud clicking noise but i never did after

[legendray2008]

My HDD clicks ones without response then works again .. driving me crazy !

[lilboi630]

HMMM.. What's that mysterious ticking noise? :P

[sgtheadhole]

read arms inside the HDD make the clicking noises by moving side to side really really fast

[iFelix0221]

Tons of crunching noises and stuff come from my drive. I try and pay no attention to it :)

[takeapieandrun]

My old PC had horrible clicking/grinding noises from the HDD but it still works.

[highcastoroil]

my HDD started clicking strangely....then 2 weeks later it die -_-

thankfully I had all my information on a backup.

but yeah strange clicking indicates an Incoming failure of the HDD

[seanmurray90]

when i run virus scan it clicks a shit load.,..thats all tho//

[Piacco2706]

clicking of death

=o

[TheZombiePanda]

I never hear clicking from my Hard drive and it's old. =)

[nofyt]

can this happen to an external harddrive to? Just bought a new one, and its making that sound. But i guess its only when im downloading something to it or transfering files to the HD. Hope you can answer my question:)

[cusinndzl]

It can my new one does too but it is not load and I have used a older one that is really loud.

[wolfgoblin]

Yes.

[zakman825]

it also could be ur not getting enough power to the hard drives.

[Robbaz]

Remember that if one disk screw up the bios might not get passed without a cold restart.

[Peetah16]

Hes not talking about that kind of clicking. its the clicking when the hard drive finds like a bad sector or sumthing and then hits the the disk.

Its normly an early sing that your HD is gunna fail

[drakeishfyre]

My family's computer clicked 24/7. I deleted some useless on startup Acer programs and ran Vista's integrated defrag; Now there's no clicking.

[ExZero16]

not sure the type of clicking you are discriping here, but if your talking about normal read noises coming from your hard drive 24/7 then by disabling some start up items you could have disabled some program that was constantly assessing the HDD. If your talking about a bad clicking(dont know how to explanine it better) you might want to look into that. First find the manufactor of your drive, and go to their website and download a HHD testing software from them and test your HDD.

[drakeishfyre]

ExZero16, it was regular read clicking- it was a very noisy HD.

As I said in my previous post, deleting the useless Acer startup programs and running a defrag fixed it. Now I rarely hear the noise.

[weeksy79]

to be honest i usualy find when working with older computers that this noise is from the reader head having to make excessive movements due to scattered data. using good defrag software such as IObit defrag with an optimasation option will place regularly used data closer together so less movement of the head is required which inturn means less noise. hope this is of some use to someone :D

[lyokofans]

Clicking always means the hard drive is going to fail.

[hitachi088]

all my seagate HDD are new and they all "clic"...

never had any problem ....

[lyokofans]

I guarantee you they will all fail in a short period of time. I see about 50 computers a week and %90 of the ones with clicking hard drives fail within a month or two. Anymore if they aren't under warranty and they click I recycle them.

[hitachi088]

they still works ...

[lyokofans]

Trust me they will fail

[TheBlitz1]

He didn't answer the question at all...

The clicking noise is from your magnetic reader head, its a very very small fragile piece that wares with time; and eventually can no longer find the data which was requested. A (very) small percentage of the time, this is caused by an insufficient power level, and a even smaller percentage of time it is caused by temperature (I have NEVER heard of temperature being an issue).

[tombmxcrowley]

yer there is like a gap smaller than a piece of hair. somtimes it drops = scraching on the plates :)

or even the head arm gets messed up ud gose back and forth not reading anything makes a wierd noise lol.

[user12119]

My old 3 year old acer aspire laptop has always had a loud hard drive.

[crysisen]

Clicking so much =The Hard Drive is begining to FAIL

[los]

My computer beeps at me when I play high end graphic games. What is it telling me!? I have appropriate specs to run crysis, but after a few minutes a get an intermittent beeping!? Is something overheating? It only happens when I run hardware intensive games. Help!

[pcandcargeek28]

nice vid

[taltigolt]

since im here i can ask anyway

i got my pc loose connected motherboard lays on the ant static bag everything connected loose had been working for weeks however the hardddrives are so warm i get burned touching them is that bad?

[mastershake2393]

yeah, that is bad. you should probably look into buying new hard drives.

[taltigolt]

no cooling? there just laying on the table

[mastershake2393]

they are getting hot buy just laying on the table? I have never heard of that before...

[taltigolt]

yea and my room is very WARM i use 2 crt monitors so avg degrees in C in my room currently is 33

[alaxoy]

Head-Crash ?

[Dinumas]

I had two old computers frmo the manufacturer Packard Bell.

Terrible crunching and clicking and horrible screeching noises coming from the HD whenever it was being read.

This is "normal" in their computers, don't ever buy from Packard Bell.

-Dinumas

[csmaster65]

I agree on that statement regarding Packard Bell. A friend of mine had a Packard Bell and the hard drive was clicking all the time, and the somewhat pricey computer was slow. So yeah, avoid Packard Bell

[ChunkyMilkification]

lol i never heard of that manufacturer.

[Dinumas]

It's a fairly known manufacturer in the UK.

-Dinumas

[ChunkyMilkification]

Makes sense why i never heard it. I live in teh usa

[FrapsChannel]

Lmfao. Made me laugh.

[Dinumas]

Good. : P

-Dinumas

[kozes]

hmmm..

[COD4Cosmos]

Hey rodney. Just wanted to say thank you for the advice. My Seagate drive has been doing this for some time and I GREATLY appreciate your explaining this!

[3DGAMEMAN]

Sorry, no tech q's here. Please send to my email address. Please visit my channel to find out where to send.

[thelasthallow]

lol if you are replying to the Cod4 Post you should re read it. i think you mis understood

[COD4Cosmos]

yeah lol. I was thinking the same thing.

[thelasthallow]

yeah. im pretty sure you are thanking him for asking your question and i think he thinks you are asking a tech question.

lol understand? i hope that wasn't very confusing for ya Rodney.

[3DGAMEMAN]

Sorry about that COD. I replied to the wrong guy in the wrong video. Thanks.. I appreciate it :)

[COD4Cosmos]

No problem :)

[loganfraz]

cool