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Clicking HD in PC.

Izanagi-OkamiIzanagi-Okami Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I know that's pretty much the death knell and I should back up my files while I can and be ready to replace it. My question is which drive is it? You see I have two drives in my PC. An SSD that I use for my OS and Apps and a 1TB HDD that I use for storage.

Normally I'd assume that my SSD couldn't ever make clicking noises so it must be my HDD except it seems to start clicking even at times when it shouldn't even be spinning as I'm doing nothing to access it. Is it possible for an SSD to make clicking noises as well?

Alternatively I have memory card reader and my power supply in the same area from where the noise is being read from but I've never even used the card reader so I doubt it's that.

So I guess what I'm asking is can my SSD be clicking or is it my storage HDD which probably shouldn't even be spinning at times when I hear the noise?

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  • MoSiAcMoSiAc Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Have you tried just disconnecting the HDD to see if it still clicks? I wouldn't think an SSD would click either since I don't think anything in them moves really.

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  • Izanagi-OkamiIzanagi-Okami Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Have not yet tried that but so far the clicking seems to be very intermittent. I tried running a video off it to get it spinning and didn't click while I was watching it but clicked for a bit after I was done and stopped again. So until it becomes more regular I'm not sure I can rely on disconnecting it for just a short period to determine.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Since a SSD has no moving parts, I'm gonna go with it being your conventional 1TB.

    Also it's probably under warranty.

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  • Count FunkulaCount Funkula Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Platter-based hard drives spin all the time, whether you are reading or writing to them at the time or not. When you access the drive, the heads move. SSD's are pretty much just a bunch of memory chips with no moving parts and no sounds being made. The ticking is coming from your 1TB drive, and it is probably not far from crashing completely. Backup anything you don't want to lose ASAP.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    HDD is going to be spinning all the time, and if you have a modern OS like the latest Linux flavors or Vista/7, the OS is going to be constantly doing writes as it indexes and optimizes the files.

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