Ok, so I know that a "clicking" sound means my drive is going bad, but I'm still confused. Here's the situation, and any help or advice is appreciated: 2.8 octo, early 2008 mac pro, with 6GB ram, and 4 hard-drives.
I migrated my old macbook pro over to the stock 320 drive, then cloned that to a Western Digital 500GB drive. I installed one 500GB drive for apps and such as my boot disk, and a second 500GB drive as a media disk (itunes, etc). Then, I installed a 1TB Western Digital drive for Time Machine. Between the two 500GB drives I have about 300GB of space used.
So, today I decide to import Band of Brothers to watch on my iphone, and I fire up handbrake. While importing the first disk, I start to hear a strange clicking sound that sounds like my hard-disks are going to sleep and waking back up (like you hear on boot). I get worried and decide that my boot drive, to which I'm importing the disc in handbrake, is going bad.
Disk utility tells me it's fine, and I can't find any other way to test the discs in an early 2008 mac pro. Energy saver is not told to sleep the disks, so it isn't that. I decide to trouble shoot and import the second DVD of Band of Brothers to the stock drive, and I hear the same clicking sound. So, it seems to not be any one hard drive. It's present on import to two different drives.
To further test this, I just goofed around on the system for a bit with photoshop, etc. This sound is not heard during the use of any other program (all stored on the 500GB boot drive). I ran about 20 minutes of video from each hard disk and never heard the sound.
So, it is ONLY heard during import from handbrake, and it seems to be coming from the super-drive or the hard-discs. I'm deaf in one ear, so I can't triangulate sound very well, but it seems to be either the first drive bay (which has the stock drive with nothing on it) or the Super-drive.
Could it just be the DVD drive? Or have I missed something? Any way to tell ahead of time which drive is at risk of dying? All of the drives are brand new, and I don't mind replacing them. I just can't figure out if one is dying (and which one) or if the program is just doing something different than I'm used to from my laptop?
edit: oh, I should say that the clicking while handbrake is running is intermittent. Not at regular intervals, and not all that common....just about once or twice per 90 seconds.
I migrated my old macbook pro over to the stock 320 drive, then cloned that to a Western Digital 500GB drive. I installed one 500GB drive for apps and such as my boot disk, and a second 500GB drive as a media disk (itunes, etc). Then, I installed a 1TB Western Digital drive for Time Machine. Between the two 500GB drives I have about 300GB of space used.
So, today I decide to import Band of Brothers to watch on my iphone, and I fire up handbrake. While importing the first disk, I start to hear a strange clicking sound that sounds like my hard-disks are going to sleep and waking back up (like you hear on boot). I get worried and decide that my boot drive, to which I'm importing the disc in handbrake, is going bad.
Disk utility tells me it's fine, and I can't find any other way to test the discs in an early 2008 mac pro. Energy saver is not told to sleep the disks, so it isn't that. I decide to trouble shoot and import the second DVD of Band of Brothers to the stock drive, and I hear the same clicking sound. So, it seems to not be any one hard drive. It's present on import to two different drives.
To further test this, I just goofed around on the system for a bit with photoshop, etc. This sound is not heard during the use of any other program (all stored on the 500GB boot drive). I ran about 20 minutes of video from each hard disk and never heard the sound.
So, it is ONLY heard during import from handbrake, and it seems to be coming from the super-drive or the hard-discs. I'm deaf in one ear, so I can't triangulate sound very well, but it seems to be either the first drive bay (which has the stock drive with nothing on it) or the Super-drive.
Could it just be the DVD drive? Or have I missed something? Any way to tell ahead of time which drive is at risk of dying? All of the drives are brand new, and I don't mind replacing them. I just can't figure out if one is dying (and which one) or if the program is just doing something different than I'm used to from my laptop?
edit: oh, I should say that the clicking while handbrake is running is intermittent. Not at regular intervals, and not all that common....just about once or twice per 90 seconds.