Hitachi Travelstar silent click question.

[MrFanel]

I just got a used 60 gig 2.5" travelstar for my laptop. 5400 RPM and all those goodies.

Anyway - every once in a while I'd notice that the HD light on my laptop will flicker and along with it there will be a very VERY faint click sound coming out of the HD. Now I know what the click of death sounds - but this aint the click of death. It sounds as if the HD is being read - it's just oddly loud but soft.

Anyone has any experience with that?

 

[bacillus]

my 7k60 does the same and I've had it over 15 months.

 

[chilled]

i just got a 7k100 and there's no clicking...

 

[vegetation]

I get that only if firefox has been running for some time.

 

[MWink]

Many laptop drives do it. I'm not sure what it is but it reminds me of how some very old HD's used to have to recalibrate themselves every few minutes while running. I don't think it's a problem but it does seem to slow things down when it occurs (at least with some drives). I wouldn't worry.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I have a 60GB 5400RPM Travelstar and it does the same thing. It's supposedly normal and I haven't had problems with it, but it can be annoying. There was a firmware update that was supposed to address this issue but it didn't do anything for me.

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, ALL drives do it. Some are just quieter than others. It's the heads moving to a new track on the drive to read or write something. They usually make a louder click when it has been off and you bring it back on. Heads have to run up against a brick wall to find the first track and then step out to the one you need (recalibrate). Click of death is when the drive can't read at all so keeps Recalibrating about once per second. Hope this helps answer your question. Jim

 

[MrFanel]

Ahhhhh now I see. The reason why I was asking is because I have another travelstar that is 4200 RPM that originally came with my laptop and it never did any of that sort of clicking. But I guess I have nothing to worry about. Thank everyone!