western digital drive is clicking -- will it be ok?

[supernova87a]

Hi all,

I've got a new western digital drive (80gb caviar) that makes a click-clock sound once every half hour or so ("click", 1/2 second, "clock&quot.

It's kind of like the click-clock sound that you hear at startup, but in this case it makes the sound even when I'm not really doing anything on the computer.

Is this anything to worry about -- does it indicate future problems? It's kind of important, because it's a central data storage disk, so I want to be sure...

Thanks for your advice!

 

[vhx1]

I just recently bought a Western digital 30 gb 7200 rpm(WD300BB). I too have heard these click-clock sounds that u describe; however, i haven't noticed anything unusual about it. I don't think i've heard to quite as often as you though...

 

[sohcrates]

probably wouldn't hurt to d/l and run the WD diag software from their website

 

[MrBond]

And ghost anything you want off of it. I've seen clicking drives just plain STOP working.

WD has a good RMA policy. Prove you know what you're doing, and they'll usually crosship a drive to you with a CC number.

You usually need an error code from WDDiag.exe, the only exceptions I've had were drives that won't boot anymore (the aforementioned clicking drives)

 

[Zorba]

I had a problrm that that on a WD drive. The noise start happening more and more, until they drive developed bad sectors and screwed up all the data on it.

 

[jleboeuf]

I had the same problem w/ a Maxtor drive that I had. Unfortunately it started doing it every now and then; and then inclined to doing it everytime i accessed the drive. If I were you I would keep my I on it; No data will get harmed but the drive will slow down to a crawl if it clicks more and more.