I recently installed a brand new Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD. It started making a clicking noise immediately after the first boot-up, but not the loud knocking sort of clicking. It almost sounds more like a mouse click or beep.
The noise also occurs in a regular pulsing pattern, like a heartbeat, and it only happens when the drive is idle. It immediately stops any time I read or write to the drive, and I've had no issues doing so. I've run tests with Seagate's tools and CrystalDisk, and everything checks out fine. I've tried swapping SATA and power connectors but that hasn't produced a difference.
Here's an audio clip of the sound it's making: https://vocaroo.com/esxWFf4G1Mz
Is this a sign of failure? Maybe a power issue? It doesn't sound like the classic head-knocking to me. I do have another HDD running off the same power cable, but I'm assuming that's not an issue since the cable is designed for that purpose (it has 3 connectors on one cable; I'm using 2).
The noise also occurs in a regular pulsing pattern, like a heartbeat, and it only happens when the drive is idle. It immediately stops any time I read or write to the drive, and I've had no issues doing so. I've run tests with Seagate's tools and CrystalDisk, and everything checks out fine. I've tried swapping SATA and power connectors but that hasn't produced a difference.
Here's an audio clip of the sound it's making: https://vocaroo.com/esxWFf4G1Mz
Is this a sign of failure? Maybe a power issue? It doesn't sound like the classic head-knocking to me. I do have another HDD running off the same power cable, but I'm assuming that's not an issue since the cable is designed for that purpose (it has 3 connectors on one cable; I'm using 2).
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