Alright so in my PC I have a Seagate 2 tb HDD that is kind of just there, not really using it for anything other than game capture videos, pictures, etc. My operating system is on my NVME drive and all my games, applications, etc are all on another SSD.
So lately my HDD has been making a weird noise, its done it in the past but it's louder and more frequent as of now. It sounds like ticking. It will do it for a few seconds than stop, and randomly start up again. I did a test on my drives with Crystal disk checker and it does say the drive has like sector count issued and lists an amount. All of things I don't understand of course.
My question is, should I just replace or disconnect it since I'm not really using it for anything other than storage anyway? If it died I guess it wouldn't affect how the PC works because the OS and all other important programs are not on the hard drive.
So lately my HDD has been making a weird noise, its done it in the past but it's louder and more frequent as of now. It sounds like ticking. It will do it for a few seconds than stop, and randomly start up again. I did a test on my drives with Crystal disk checker and it does say the drive has like sector count issued and lists an amount. All of things I don't understand of course.
My question is, should I just replace or disconnect it since I'm not really using it for anything other than storage anyway? If it died I guess it wouldn't affect how the PC works because the OS and all other important programs are not on the hard drive.