Just added 500GB HD and I now hear it clicking is that normal?

[Greenhoe]

Hi,
I just upgraded my HD to a 500GB Western Digital 5400 RPM HD and the harddrive is silent although every minuite or two i hear a small clicking noise coming from the HD? is this normal the HD seems to be working fine though.

 

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Clicking or "ticking?" The time bomb feature may be enabled. Exercise caution.

 

[amitdoc2b]

Hi,
I just upgraded my HD to a 500GB Western Digital 5400 RPM HD and the harddrive is silent although every minuite or two i hear a small clicking noise coming from the HD? is this normal the HD seems to be working fine though.

I associate clicking with a hard drive dying. Do a SMART scan downloading the SMART Utility program from Apple Downloads. It allows you to do 3 tests before buying it, so just do 1 and see if there are any errors or bad sectors in your drive. It will also tell you if your drive passes or fails the test.

 

[johnnj]

It's probably just the heads parking when the drive goes into powersave mode.

I know exactly the sound you're talking about and its g-damn annoying. I just took the 320 WD Cav Blk drive out of my MBP and replaced it with a 500 Seagate 5400.6 and lack of 2 minute clicking is a relief.

You should definitely run the SMART utility, but drive failure ticking is usually a little more frequent than every couple of minutes.

Good luck,

John

 

[Greenhoe]

Well I ran drive smart and everything checked out good, the drive had no errors. It is just annoying hearing that click every once in a while when I was use to not hearing anything with the default drive. It is very quiet click too, I can only hear it if the room is silent.