Mick wrote: > 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. >
I plan to get me a SSD one of these days. I'm going to let them work out the kinks first tho, at someone else's expense that can afford the things. At least bearings do give a warning. The SMART tool can give early warnings too. I have had SMART save my data twice now. Dale :-) :-)
