[SOLVED] Hdd click of death

[Itsonlyirmel]

Last year, my hdd died because of the click of death. I backed up everything, bought a new one and everything worked fine. The reason why first hdd died is (I think) game Ark survival evolved. It is hard game for low-end PCs like mine, and when I started playing it, after a month or so, hdd started clicking. I bought a new hdd and it worked good, until yesterday. Even though I thought first hhd died becauae of ARK, I decided to start playing it again on new hdd. And, after a month of playing, guess what, new hdd started clicking too( it's still not real clicking, it stops spinning and then starts again). So, my question is, is it really a problem in the game, where it is too strong for my pc? Or isi it just a hdd problem, where I got bad ones with bad lifetime?
P.s I check the life of a new hdd in hdd sentinel and it is still 100% health, so maybe something else is the problem.

 

[Zizo007]

Which HDD did you buy and why not get an SSD? They fail much less and are much faster.

Return the HDD and get an SSD.

 

[stonecarver]

How tight are your screws that mount the hard drive?

 

[Itsonlyirmel]

Which HDD did you buy and why not get an SSD? They fail much less and are much faster.

Return the HDD and get an SSD.

The problem is, I changed the old one via guarantee with new one

 

[Itsonlyirmel]

How tight are your screws that mount the hard drive?

I didn't really check them, but probably they are good mounted. But would that be the problem , even if they are really tight?

 

[RolandJS]

You are making routine backups onto external media, correct?

 

[Itsonlyirmel]

You are making routine backups onto external media, correct?

Yes. But there is nothing that special and important on that disk, because it is not my main disk. I have a small one for system. I have games on damaged one.

 

[rounakr94]

I would check the psu. RMA replacements are usually refurbished so they may also fail anytime.

 

[Itsonlyirmel]

I would check the psu. RMA replacements are usually refurbished so they may also fail anytime.

Will check. Although I am not sure if that's the problem. But, is it realy coincidence that 2 times that hdd started clicking was when I was playing Ark?

 

[rounakr94]

Will check. Although I am not sure if that's the problem. But, is it realy coincidence that 2 times that hdd started clicking was when I was playing Ark?

No not at all, a game cannot at anytime exert so much pressure on a hdd to make it fail.