I bought a brand new hard drive about 3 weeks ago, and i'm wondering, it's now making a loud clicking noise. When ever the hard drive is accessing, doesn't matter if it's reading or writing, after a while, it will just make a click noise. it's not continuiously clicking, but just clicks. It's distinct because it's louder than normal hard drive operation noise. Is this suppose to be normal?
The hard drive in question is Maxtor 6Y080M0 which is a SATA interface. I cannot run the Maxtor Powermax (i believe that is what it is called) since i use a onboard SATA from my motherboard. Will they take this warranty this drive even though i haven't run the Powermax?
Right now, the drive still works, but i'm afraid that one day the drive will just stop working just like that, and forcing me to have to re-install windows.
I have made an recording of the sound so you will know what it sounds like.
Hard Drive click recording
Bear this doesn't happen constantly, it just happens every so often and only when it is drive is active. The mp3 is only 10 seconds, but the whole check disk process was about 2minutes, and it did find some security descriptor (or whatever you call it). I know the recording is noisy, since there is a fan in front of the hard drives (pural, because i have more than one HDD, but master is the one in question not my secondary drive which is older). Hopefully this mp3 helps you in answer my question. The hard drive that is having trouble is the Maxtor 6Y080M0.
The hard drive in question is Maxtor 6Y080M0 which is a SATA interface. I cannot run the Maxtor Powermax (i believe that is what it is called) since i use a onboard SATA from my motherboard. Will they take this warranty this drive even though i haven't run the Powermax?
Right now, the drive still works, but i'm afraid that one day the drive will just stop working just like that, and forcing me to have to re-install windows.
I have made an recording of the sound so you will know what it sounds like.
Hard Drive click recording
Bear this doesn't happen constantly, it just happens every so often and only when it is drive is active. The mp3 is only 10 seconds, but the whole check disk process was about 2minutes, and it did find some security descriptor (or whatever you call it). I know the recording is noisy, since there is a fan in front of the hard drives (pural, because i have more than one HDD, but master is the one in question not my secondary drive which is older). Hopefully this mp3 helps you in answer my question. The hard drive that is having trouble is the Maxtor 6Y080M0.