WD noises

[Mulch]

Is it normal for Western Digital HD's to give a faint click every now and then during read/write? I have a Caviar WD153AA.

 

[AC]

mine are a little noisy but they don't click. might be that the heads r starting to go.

 

[Souka]

How does the "click" sound compared to the normal seeking noise?

If the system hesitates during one of these clicks you "could" have a failure about to happen.

There should be some testing software, free, from WD. Look on their site.


Good luck!

 

[rocmonster]

western digital online service

 

[Mulch]

Actually, I just bought the drive. The clicks sound like they're part of the read/write sounds, as they I only hear them whenever there's disk activity. They come at irregular intervals.

You could say they sound like clicks or maybe faint "taps". I ran the diagnostic, but it didn't report any errors.

 

[kitkit201]

had the same problem too on my WD-HD.. don't know, all my old WD drives are like that too.. nothing new i guess..

 

[KouklatheCat]

I have had that problem with a couple WD drives. I had too many go bad on me and finally switched. I used to swear by them, the werent the fastest but were rock stable

 

[CapNjacK]

Yeah I think it's normal for the lower end Caviars. Mine does it when read/writing. Sounds like some damn bug in there!

 

[okydoky]

My WD drives sound normal, ie., clicks n' ticks, until I shutdown the system. When the heads park, they clunk. This has been going on for well over a year now. Normal? What is normal nowadays anyhow ??? Heh,heh!!!

 

[Mulch]

Well, I guess I can stop worrying for a while!!