Question Seagate Barracuda 4TB HDD weird "Clicks"

[Tennobyte]

I searched this question in internet, i found some articles about "click of death" but... Give a me a hope if that is not it.

The Problem:
I have two of exact those drives, they are used as auxilliary, the system is located on some Toshiba P300 HDD which has no such sounds. (Ye i'm using HDD instead of SSD, bear with it)
They are not used oftenly, and most of time they are 0% load in task manager.
But sometimes devils wakes up in those drives and makes it "Click", the click is pretty strong, I mean, it's very sensitible through casing, and pretty loud.
The Disk is not used, however the "click" appear. The click can be characterized as single head knock in each ~10 seconds. If I unplug SATA connector during disk clicking, it will stop clicking and annoying me.
Also, both of disks click at the EXACT same time, they are both! First disc, then in few miliseconds equal to avg ingame ping time second disc.
Those Drives SMART in "CrystalDiskInfo" is (GOOD), hard disk sentinel (GOOD), and in victoria is "Unideal" (I think it's because of Seek Error Rate that is same for all seagate drives)
Drives has no problems with no data access, write and read cycles. No corrupted files. It behaves as average SMR drive would be.

Maybe, just maybe, those drives will work for 5 years without problems and i'm overreacting, but this click is obviously is not 100% perfectly normal, and is annoying.

I also aware of Seagate "Seatools" software. It also says everything gud.

 

[Aeacus]

but this click is obviously is not 100% perfectly normal, and is annoying.

Most likely it is parking of the write arm. And that is normal for some Seagate HDDs. It's actually a feature.

Workaround here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6kUBA03rw


But in general with HDDs, if they don't do any sounds what-so-ever, then something is wrong. As long as you hear something from HDD, HDD usually is good.

 

[Tennobyte]

Most likely it is parking of the write arm. And that is normal for some Seagate HDDs. It's actually a feature.

Workaround here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6kUBA03rw


But in general with HDDs, if they don't do any sounds what-so-ever, then something is wrong. As long as you hear something from HDD, HDD usually is good.

Altough I have a Barracuda SMR drive which is kind of fragile for being NAS in any kind, this video show the EXACT same thing as my drive making. Thanks a lot! I'll try the program as soon as possible to see if it helps. Honestly I am not sure if 24/7 writting and deleting a file is good for SMR, but, who cares❤️‍🔥

I thought I will never find anywhere same "Clinking" sound and my drives are dying with good S.m.a.r.t. 😅

(I'm GMT+5 so basically everyone replies when its very dark for me)

 

[Aeacus]

I thought I will never find anywhere same "Clinking" sound and my drives are dying with good S.m.a.r.t. 😅

The workaround i found, was actually one of the very 1st ones. 3rd link i clicked after Google-Fu. 🥷

Honestly I am not sure if 24/7 writting and deleting a file is good for SMR, but, who cares❤️‍🔥

Well, small writes do wear the drive since it's doing something. But considering that HDDs used to be an OS drive, where there's constant write/read, i wouldn't worry much about HDD lifespan. Also, HDDs are cheap to replace.

(I'm GMT+5 so basically everyone replies when its very dark for me)

I'm GMT+2 but i reply in the forums around the clock. Also, there's no way to tell in which part of the world anyone is. After all, TH forums are international.