Around August of last year I built a new PC. Nearly all the internal components were new with the sole exception of a Creative X-FI sound card and my HDD which is a Western Digital Caviar WD3200JD.
To be honest, I don't remember when I bought it but I used it as a secondary HDD in my older build and after testing, found that it was slightly faster than my primary HDD so I moved it to my new build.
Late last night I was doing a lot of file crunching. I was decompressing huge files and moving them to a second partition on the same drive. It takes time so I was also browsing the web and reading stuff on Wikipedia. The problem is that I heard a distinct "click" sound and everything aside from my mouse cursor stopped. I couldn't close any windows or anything else.
The click sound is the same sound I hear when my computer is turned off or when it goes to sleep. In other words, I believe it's just a normal part of the drive head parking before the HDD shuts off.
Why was it parking in the middle of some intense file crunching though? After a small instant, I could year it spin up again but my computer didn't become responsive for another 5-10 minutes, after which everything continued on like nothing happened (ie, no file transfer errors or anything like that).
I'm kinda paranoid about my data and now I'm wondering if something is wrong with my HDD or if it's on its way out. Anyone have any thoughts?
To be honest, I don't remember when I bought it but I used it as a secondary HDD in my older build and after testing, found that it was slightly faster than my primary HDD so I moved it to my new build.
Late last night I was doing a lot of file crunching. I was decompressing huge files and moving them to a second partition on the same drive. It takes time so I was also browsing the web and reading stuff on Wikipedia. The problem is that I heard a distinct "click" sound and everything aside from my mouse cursor stopped. I couldn't close any windows or anything else.
The click sound is the same sound I hear when my computer is turned off or when it goes to sleep. In other words, I believe it's just a normal part of the drive head parking before the HDD shuts off.
Why was it parking in the middle of some intense file crunching though? After a small instant, I could year it spin up again but my computer didn't become responsive for another 5-10 minutes, after which everything continued on like nothing happened (ie, no file transfer errors or anything like that).
I'm kinda paranoid about my data and now I'm wondering if something is wrong with my HDD or if it's on its way out. Anyone have any thoughts?
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