2 hdds start to click since change from Ivy to Skylake

[kefegg]

Hi all,

yesterday I swapped my P8P67 deluxe motherboard for a Z170 Pro gaming board. Plugged a i5 6600K on it and was good to go.
Everything went fine until the OS was installed.

I have Win 10 on a Evo 840, 2 WD Hdd and 2 Samsung F3 spinpoint Hdd.
And those Samsungs are giving me a hard time right now.
They start to click, never done before.

Could it be due a controller issue or are those 2 drives suddenly near dead?
They are old, I know, but the only serve as (group disc) image backup.
I grab pictures from my Camera and place them in the Picture folder. That folder is monthly backed up to the 2 Samsungs, in group, working in 'mirror'.

Any help or explanation would come in handy

 

[mikeymikec]

I've never heard of a controller issue causing drive(s) to click in an unhealthy manner. If both HDDs started unhealthily clicking at the same time, there's always a chance that both decided to start checking out at the same time, though I would consider power as another possibility.

Is the new rig quieter than the old one? Is there a chance that you're hearing normal drive sounds that you didn't hear before because of the noise level change?

Are the drives working normally otherwise?

 

[corkyg]

Also, what does S.M.A.R.T. say?

 

[kefegg]

The rig is actually identically the same.
I just unscrewed the motherboard and placed the new motherboard in.
Plugged the PSU, SSD en DVD drive in and reinstalled windows 10 and the Z170 Software.

So, the rig is not quiter as before.
The drive worked both perfect until hooked up on the new motherboard.

The PSU is a Seasonic X560, which did well on the ASUS P8P67 motherboard running a i5 2500K.
*By the way, I just notices that my title has got to be ...from Sandy to Skylake...*
Assuming Skylake is less power-hungry, I think that the PSU would handle this fine.

 

[mikeymikec]

I think you mean 'Seasonic'

Yup, corkyg's suggestion of checking the SMART data is a good idea. If you have a spare PSU it would be interesting to know whether it makes any difference.

Are the drives functioning as expected, apart from the clicking?

 

[kefegg]

Also, what does S.M.A.R.T. say?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6b9a3281dhz7yep/disk4.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qr023i2y0wb6n36/disk3.JPG?dl=0

I see some difference in numbers but don't know how to understand them.
Also still don't understand why they do it now and both.

 

[kefegg]

Believe it or not.
Running Windows 7==> not one single click.

 

[Elixer]

Believe it or not.
Running Windows 7==> not one single click.

I think you need to check where the clicking is actually coming from.
Obviously, it isn't the HDs.

If it was, they would be on their last legs.

 

[thilanliyan]

Coming from the motherboard maybe?

 

[MongGrel]

NM.

 

[kefegg]

I think you need to check where the clicking is actually coming from.
Obviously, it isn't the HDs.

If it was, they would be on their last legs.

Well, it's definitely coming from the two harddrives.
And only when I'm running Windows 10 and using the new motherboard.
Running Windows 7 on it and the sound is completely gone.

Just before I was going haywire, my daughter took her laptop and I heard exactly the same sound coming from her laptop.
The 'parking' sound.

Now fiddling with Christaldiskinfo - AAM/APM settings.
Clicking sound is gone.

 

[kefegg]

Update:

Contacted ASUS and Microsoft about this issue.
It's a know problem and Windows related.
Even if the harddrive is set to never go to sleep it 'will' go to sleep in seconds and park the head.
And every time the drive is actuated, it will unpark the head which make the awkward clicking sound.

It doesn't happen to all harddrives, only with harddrives that have APM settings that are access-able.
Solution is to set the sleep time (in energysettings) to "something" else than never.

 

[Elixer]

Update:

Contacted ASUS and Microsoft about this issue.
It's a know problem and Windows related.
Even if the harddrive is set to never go to sleep it 'will' go to sleep in seconds and park the head.
And every time the drive is actuated, it will unpark the head which make the awkward clicking sound.

It doesn't happen to all harddrives, only with harddrives that have APM settings that are access-able.
Solution is to set the sleep time (in energysettings) to "something" else than never.

When you first said clicking HD, I think everyone here assumed you meant all the time. Like what this shows. https://youtu.be/IQnAWBi11i8?t=126

Hence the confusion.

Thanks for the update though.

 

[kefegg]

When you first said clicking HD, I think everyone here assumed you meant all the time. Like what this shows. https://youtu.be/IQnAWBi11i8?t=126

Hence the confusion.

Thanks for the update though.

My bad of incorrect formulating my problem. But when I heard my daughter her laptop making the same "click" I knew it was the "parking" sound.
Describing a sound or noise is kinda hard.
And it didn't crossed my mind to make a video or soundrecording.