[OT] Hard Drive Clicking Noise for Hitachi Mobile Drives

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 00:01, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Joel Jaeggli said:
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> >thermal recalibration
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> >http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/actRecal.html
> > 
> You can also get a program called Drive Fitness Test (DFT) for some of the Hitachi/IBM Travelstar drives from Hitachi.  
That's what the program calls to update the firmware.


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> However, if the drive makes a loud "clack-clack" noise like the hard drive heads hard parking, this can be a sign that the drive is failing.  If the noise sounds like a "click-click-click" noise, it could be the hard drive recalibrating due to temperature changes.  In any case, a good, verifiable, recent hard drive data backup is always a good thing.
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