Noticed sparks coming out of the wall socket where my PC was plugged into so I had someone else help me swap it to another wall. However, I didn't think about the PSU switch still being on and this person jerked the cord in and out as electricity was visible each time. Right away I realized I forgot about the PSU as my motherboard lights went on and off twice. When I turned my PC back on everything was fine for a moment until I started hearing a low frequency shuttering or low click sound every so often. Then I heard it repeating a little more as the minutes continued. I was using my PC for a good hour while this was still happening until I could move PC and listen from the back and that's when the sound became more prominent and targetable.
I believe it's my WD black 4TB HDD. I've kept my PC off for a few days now. I'm going to buy another external WD mybook drive for both my OS SSD nvme drive, as well as the WD black drive. I'll likely disconnect the HDD and backup up my OS SSD drive in the meantime and then backup my HDD after.
My question is: what is the fastest way to do a fullback backup of the 4TB HDD? Should I copy everything over bit by bit to my SSD drive, selecting my most important files or should I copy and paste these to the external drive? I think the external drive will be slower but I'll be able to take all the contents off the HDD and put it on MyBook external drive. If I go with the external drive transfer option, should I do a full backup? I don't know how long that would take and if the clicking is indicative of a serious problem I don't want to wait that long.
Someone else told me to dowload macrium reflect free on another computer, put it on a flash drive or another drive, and then do an image backup on an external SSD connected to my PC.
If the external SSD is the route to go, which would be a recommended external drive? Would this be a good option? I need at least 8TB as both drives amount to 6TB. I'm wondering if it'll take a long time to do both drives at once using the image backup method. The read and write speeds of the WD black HDD will be slower regardless if I'm transferring to an SSD.
SanDisk Professional 8TB G-Drive Enterprise-Class External Desktop Hard Drive - 7200RPM Ultrastar HDD Inside, USB-C (10Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen 2, Mac Ready - SDPHF1A-008T-NBAAD https://a.co/d/1scA2HV
I believe it's my WD black 4TB HDD. I've kept my PC off for a few days now. I'm going to buy another external WD mybook drive for both my OS SSD nvme drive, as well as the WD black drive. I'll likely disconnect the HDD and backup up my OS SSD drive in the meantime and then backup my HDD after.
My question is: what is the fastest way to do a fullback backup of the 4TB HDD? Should I copy everything over bit by bit to my SSD drive, selecting my most important files or should I copy and paste these to the external drive? I think the external drive will be slower but I'll be able to take all the contents off the HDD and put it on MyBook external drive. If I go with the external drive transfer option, should I do a full backup? I don't know how long that would take and if the clicking is indicative of a serious problem I don't want to wait that long.
Someone else told me to dowload macrium reflect free on another computer, put it on a flash drive or another drive, and then do an image backup on an external SSD connected to my PC.
If the external SSD is the route to go, which would be a recommended external drive? Would this be a good option? I need at least 8TB as both drives amount to 6TB. I'm wondering if it'll take a long time to do both drives at once using the image backup method. The read and write speeds of the WD black HDD will be slower regardless if I'm transferring to an SSD.
SanDisk Professional 8TB G-Drive Enterprise-Class External Desktop Hard Drive - 7200RPM Ultrastar HDD Inside, USB-C (10Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen 2, Mac Ready - SDPHF1A-008T-NBAAD https://a.co/d/1scA2HV
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram