Hard Drive Clicking When Reading and Painfully Slow Read Speeds

[HerobrineFinder]

So I have pulled a Western Digital Blue 1TB Notebook drive from an Acer Laptop because my friend complained of extremely slow dirve speeds. So, I plug it into my friends desktop rig, and started copying some games onto a secondary SSD that would go into a DVD Drive Caddy for a laptop. Anyways, I start copying the games and steam folder, and I notice the hard drive peaks out at 4 MegaBits per second, which is slow even for a notebook drive. All the while, I hear this faint clicking sound coming from the drive. I took a video of it for you guys to hear, and have amplified the sound.

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me

Link to video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwtoPDev-QtdZkZiUkdvYTJYeWc/view?usp=sharing

 

[scout_03]

if it is clicking your better test it with data lifeguard diagnostic seams it is falling .

 

[USAFRet]

Clicking and slow = dying drive.

 

[aquielisunari]

So I have pulled a Western Digital Blue 1TB Notebook drive from an Acer Laptop because my friend complained of extremely slow dirve speeds. So, I plug it into my friends desktop rig, and started copying some games onto a secondary SSD that would go into a DVD Drive Caddy for a laptop. Anyways, I start copying the games and steam folder, and I notice the hard drive peaks out at 4 MegaBits per second, which is slow even for a notebook drive. All the while, I hear this faint clicking sound coming from the drive. I took a video of it for you guys to hear, and have amplified the sound.

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me

Link to video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwtoPDev-QtdZkZiUkdvYTJYeWc/view?usp=sharing

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree clone drive.

Buy new drive.

About 25 years ago we named that sound. It's called the click of death. Have you ran any SMART tests on it? Seems like there are too many dead sectors.

 

[HerobrineFinder]

So I have pulled a Western Digital Blue 1TB Notebook drive from an Acer Laptop because my friend complained of extremely slow dirve speeds. So, I plug it into my friends desktop rig, and started copying some games onto a secondary SSD that would go into a DVD Drive Caddy for a laptop. Anyways, I start copying the games and steam folder, and I notice the hard drive peaks out at 4 MegaBits per second, which is slow even for a notebook drive. All the while, I hear this faint clicking sound coming from the drive. I took a video of it for you guys to hear, and have amplified the sound.

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me

Link to video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwtoPDev-QtdZkZiUkdvYTJYeWc/view?usp=sharing

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree clone drive.

Buy new drive.

About 25 years ago we named that sound. It's called the click of death. Have you ran any SMART tests on it? Seems like there are too many dead sectors.

The Gigabyte BIOS has a SMART Testing feature, and threes a crapton of reallocated sectors but it says Good. But I'm cloning the drive right now

 

[scout_03]

after all data be back up use data lifeguard diagnostic from western digital on both short and long test to get full result about it .