Clicking Drive Noise

[wothan]

Hi there!

I've been having this problem for a long time now and I'm a little confused...

So the thing goes like this: I bought a laptop, with and SSD and an HDD. I noticed that sometimes, apparently when reading a very specific sector of the HDD, it made a clicking noise, the usual noise of a drive (faulty) needle. It could happen like 10 times in a row or not happen for hours. But I needed the laptop for work so I couldn't send it to technical service, because that's two weeks without it. So I kept a backup drive updated and continue working with it. That was one year ago.

In the meantime, I tried to replace the HDD. But the first one I bought, it was faulty from factory. And the second one... it wasn't apparently faulty, but... when I installed it it made the exact same clicking noise at the same frequency that the old one.

So I'm a little confused. Because the drive it's been working fine for a year, and all the SMART tests and all are positive and says that it's in perfect condition.

Anyone have any idea what could be the problem here? Could be a problem with the laptop itself, like, maybe it's supplying wrong voltage or something like that?
There's a way to check that? Because I can't still send it to technical service, and I was thinking about buying and SSD, but if the problem is in wrong voltage maybe this could damage the SSD.

Any idea about this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well it could mean nothing, but it could gone bad in few days, weeks, but i think it depends from brand to brand, i have Seagate 500Gb and its clicking but working fine, i think the needle is making big jumps from one sector to another.