I bought two of these from Amazon for a new build. One of them makes a clicking sound every second or so when it's writing. It doesn't do this when reading. It doesn't sound like the "death click" I've had happen with other drives which occurred periodically even when idle. Performance has been great and I've had no other issues with the drive which I've been using for several weeks now.
Doing a web search, there appears to be two types of odd clicking noises emitted from these drives. One is the death click. The other sounds similar to what I've been hearing except that it doesn't mention that it's occurring only when writhing. One poster on an Amazon thread said that they had contacted Seagate and Seagate said it was normal.
Does anyone have any thoughts on these clicking sounds? If this drive is going bad, I'd prefer to replace it sooner than later.
Doing a web search, there appears to be two types of odd clicking noises emitted from these drives. One is the death click. The other sounds similar to what I've been hearing except that it doesn't mention that it's occurring only when writhing. One poster on an Amazon thread said that they had contacted Seagate and Seagate said it was normal.
Does anyone have any thoughts on these clicking sounds? If this drive is going bad, I'd prefer to replace it sooner than later.