Question How Is My Harddrive Doing?

Vellaura

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Hey all!

My hardrive on the rare occasion will make rather audible clicking sounds for just a few seconds when i boot up a game like The First Descandant but then stays quiet as I use it. The S.M.A.R.T status shows it as good but I wasn't sure if it was fine or if I should be worried. Here are the values. I'm having a little trouble reading and understanding the specific values.

Thank you :)

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Hey all!

My hardrive on the rare occasion will make rather audible clicking sounds for just a few seconds when i boot up a game like The First Descandant but then stays quiet as I use it. The S.M.A.R.T status shows it as good but I wasn't sure if it was fine or if I should be worried. Here are the values. I'm having a little trouble reading and understanding the specific values.

Thank you :)

View: https://imgur.com/a/9qDnpHy
Good but you may want to lower number of startups to save some wear and tear.
Hey all!

My hardrive on the rare occasion will make rather audible clicking sounds for just a few seconds when i boot up a game like The First Descandant but then stays quiet as I use it. The S.M.A.R.T status shows it as good but I wasn't sure if it was fine or if I should be worried. Here are the values. I'm having a little trouble reading and understanding the specific values.

Thank you :)

View: https://imgur.com/a/9qDnpHy
Good but you may want to lower number of startups to save some wear and tear.
 
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Hey mate! Thank you for the response but what exactly do you mean by lowering startups? How can I do this?
Check your Power Saving Plan in control panel and set disk sleep to Never. That should stop it for needless shutdowns and restarts when they are accessed and windows keep on accessing drives even if you don't. Every time it restarts, heads go flying around several times until they settle on where data was last.
 
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Vellaura

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Check your Power Saving Plan in control panel and set disk sleep to Never. That should stop it for needless shutdowns and restarts when they are accessed and windows keep on accessing drives even if you don't. Every time it restarts, heads go flying around several times until they settle on where data was last.
Thank you, will do!

Is that the value for Start/Stop Count?