If this is the cheap, green, 5900 RPM product, I bought two of them
last November to put into a RAID 1. I believe I'm now on my third
replacement drive (two went early on, as I recall, the third went
this summer) and one of the drives is clicking (but continuing to
operate).
Makes me rethink how cheap the drives were in the first place. Hasn't
been a catastrophe because I'm on RAID 1, that's where I've been
going with all my storage because I've had a great variety of drive
failures and know there are more to come.
There are higher-grade Seagate product at 2TB (which there weren't
last November), cost two and three times as much up front and they're
on Newegg. I've had good luck with the lower-capacity enterprise-
grade products.
Tom
On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:46 AM, LuKreme wrote:
I have a quite new Seagate 2TB drive that I was using as my boot
drive on my MacPro. It started making a very loud clicking noise,
so I moved everything off of it that wasn't in my Time Machine backup.
I noticed as I was copying that the clicking noises coincided with
a complete stop of all disk I/O, lasting from a couple of seconds
up to a minute. Once the clicking stopped, operations resumed as
normal.
I got everything off the boot drive onto another drive (this was a
case sensitive drive though, which has caused other issues, but it
was the drive I had available to designate as a boot drive).
I got the firmware on the drive (CC34) updated to the latest and
took the drive out of the MacPro and put it into a firewire case
where I copied off the last few items (things I had on DVDs). There
was still the occasional clicking noise accompanied by a complete
stop in the disk I/O.
Shortly after getting everything copied off (and at this point the
drive was almost completely empty) the system could not read the
drive on boot.
I figured the drive had finally died completely, but decided to
reformat it anyway.
The reformat went fine and the drive isn't clicking. I've started
to dump a bunch of files onto it, and still no clicking. I'm up to
about 400GB copied. (I am not MOVING anything to this drive, just
copying).
However, I am still paranoid that there's something wrong with the
drive. Seagate says CC35 fixes a clicking issue, but they claim
that clicking is not a performance issue, merely a mechanical noise
from the head moving to the park position. This is certainly not
what was happening with this drive though.
So, the questions are, can I trust this drive? It's a lot of space
to give up/replace if there's nothing verifiably wrong with it to
get Seagate to replace it. Does it make sense that a firmware
update could have actually fixed this problem, but not until after
a reformat?
As an addendum, right in the middle of all this my external eSATA
Time Machine disk suddenly stopped working too. It, however, cannot
be reformatted. It is dead, Jim. I probably should have bought a
lotto ticket… I'm off today to find a replacement for my dead Time
Machine drive. Thinking about a 1.5TB for $90.
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