On Saturday 03 Oct 2015 12:23:47 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Recently I noticed that an old drive is clicking 3 or 4 times when it is > > powered up. Thereafter is stays quiet. I think it is a mechanical > > fault, because I placed the box on its side and the drive did not click > > when booting up. > > > > I ran smartctl short/long/conveyance tests and no errors are reported. > > > > In your experience is this something to concern myself with? There is > > not business critical data on the drive at present. > > I have found that if SMART reports a error, it is good to replace it as > soon as you can. When a drive makes a noise that isn't normal, that's > also a sign that you need to replace it. If you google around for that > model of drive, you may can find where others have had the same and they > shed some light on what happened, it died, it ran for ages and is normal > or something else. > > Right now, backups would be a good idea. Doing some drive shopping > would to unless google turns up something that says it is nothing to > worry about, doubtful tho. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I don't know if I am getting more nostalgic in my old days, but it is things like this that make me like spinning drives. More often than not they give some kind of warning. :-) That said I've not yet had an SSD going sideways on me. -- Regards, Mick
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