IBM Click of Death for laptop hard drive?

[brxndxn]

I bought a 40GB IBM laptop hard drive to replace the 20GB Fujitsu that came with my laptop about a year ago. It has been working fine until recently. I have been using my laptop as my dedicated Bitorrent upload/download bitch so it has been using the hard drive quite a bit.

I wake up one morning (about a week ago) to my hard drive making a click sound.. then another click.. then a few clicks.. then no clicks for a while. It is also quite loud when being accessed. Though, in terms of accessing/reading/writing, everything seems to be fine. Though, it does sound like it is trying to commit suicide.

Is there a high failure rate for the IBM laptop drives also?

EDIT: Device Manager tells me it is an IC25N040ATCS04-0 drive.. All I know is that it is an IBM drive and it has been used a lot - a LOT.

 

[johnjkr1]

Run the diagnostic from the drive maker, if it fails RMA it. If passes, try and RMA it anyway, hard drives are not supposed to click. The IBM laptop drives do make a couple clicks on startup, but that doesn't sound like what you are talking about.

 

[brxndxn]

Ran the diagnostic software and got error code 0x70.. so I filled out an RMA. I fvcking hate how Hitachi took over IBM's warranty service and removed the drop shipment option. Now, I have a 120GB drive (still using - though data isn't important) and a 40GB laptop drive I need to RMA because IBM sucks. I hope they don't have any 40GB in stock and they have to send me a 60GB instead or something. This is crap.. I have to go a month without my laptop now.

ARGH.