I have a Seagate 500GB ST350064 hard drive in an external USB enclosure. Although the drive appears to be working properly, it has started making a relatively frequent "thud" noise. Now, I've experienced the _click_ of death with drives that are starting to fail, but never a _thud_ of death
I ran a surface scan through the Seagate online (interactive) utility, which said the drive is OK. But I still don't like that thud noise.
Is the thud noise I'm hearing indicative of drive failure for this drive?
I wasn't able to run the real SeaTools utility since the drive is in the external enclosure. I guess I can break down and put it into a PC to run SeaTools for real, if that might help.
I ran a surface scan through the Seagate online (interactive) utility, which said the drive is OK. But I still don't like that thud noise.
Is the thud noise I'm hearing indicative of drive failure for this drive?
I wasn't able to run the real SeaTools utility since the drive is in the external enclosure. I guess I can break down and put it into a PC to run SeaTools for real, if that might help.