Question How Is My Harddrive Doing?

[Vellaura]

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

https://imgur.com/a/9qDnpHy

View: https://imgur.com/a/9qDnpHy

 

[CountMike]

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

https://imgur.com/a/9qDnpHy

View: https://imgur.com/a/9qDnpHy

Good but you may want to lower number of startups to save some wear and tear.

 

[Vellaura]

Good but you may want to lower number of startups to save some wear and tear.

Hey mate! Thank you for the response but what exactly do you mean by lowering startups? How can I do this?

 

[CountMike]

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.

 

[Vellaura]

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?

 

[CountMike]

Thank you, will do!

Is that the value for Start/Stop Count?

Yes beside those when PC is started which can't be avoided.

 

[Misgar]

My hardrive on the rare occasion will make rather audible clicking sounds for just a few seconds

Let's hope that at 18,357 hours your hard drive isn't starting to suffer the "Click of Death".
https://www.howtogeek.com/832396/what-is-the-click-of-death-in-an-hdd-and-what-should-you-do/

Two years isn't excessive for a hard disk and any clicks you hear may be normal head seeks, but if you've got anything important on the 1TB drive, back it up elsewhere. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Vellaura]

Let's hope that at 18,357 hours your hard drive isn't starting to suffer the "Click of Death".
https://www.howtogeek.com/832396/what-is-the-click-of-death-in-an-hdd-and-what-should-you-do/

Two years isn't excessive for a hard disk and any clicks you hear may be normal head seeks, but if you've got anything important on the 1TB drive, back it up elsewhere. Better safe than sorry.

Yea I was wondering the same thing. I've read around 5 years or more is the average especially if your not doing some constant intensive load stuff. Everything else behaves fine just the clicks got me worried. I back up as often as I can.

Is there such a thing as normal clicks?

Also does the drive or windows have any emergency "your drive is about to die" life support mode where you can't use it other than to get files out?

I remember seeing something like that in a video a long time ago.

 

[USAFRet]

What is your current backup routine?