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My storage HDD is being a bit weird. It makes a single clicking sound. It seems like it is turning it self off or going into a sleep mode. The reason I'm asking is because if I'm not saving or making changes to the drive for a while I'll hear the single click when I try to access it. Defraggler says the drive health is good. Does the click mean I need a new storage HDD?

 

HDD: Samsung HD 103SI 1000.2 GB
Firmware vers: 1AG01118 
 
 
1 Read Error Rate 0 100 100 51 0x000000000009
3 Spin-Up Time 6340 ms 82 82 11 0x0000000018C4
4 Start/Stop Count 3,612 96 96 0 0x000000000E1C
5 Reallocated Sectors Count 0 100 100 10 0x000000000000
7 Seek Error Rate 0 253 253 51 0x000000000000
8 Seek Time Performance 0 100 100 15 0x000000000000
9 Power-On Hours (POH) 107d 6h 99 99 0 0x000000000A0E
10 Spin Retry Count 0 100 100 51 0x000000000000
11 Recalibration Retries 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
12 Power Cycle Count 610 99 99 0 0x000000000262
13 Soft Read Error Rate 3 100 100 0 0x000000000003
183 SATA Downshift Error Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
184 End-to-End error 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
187 Reported Uncorrectable Errors 6 100 100 0 0x000000000006
188 Command Timeout 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
190 Airflow Temperature 27 °C 73 63 0 0x00001B0D001B
194 Temperature 30 °C 70 58 0 0x0000220D001E
195 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 0 0x0000001599B5
196 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
197 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
200 Multi-Zone Error Rate 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
201 Soft Read Error Rate 0 253 253 0 0x000000000000
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Hey ariviosa,
 
Judging by the S.M.A.R.T. status, the drive appears well and healthy. Do you by any chance have enabled a power-saving feature that spins the drive down? This might be the cause of the single click when the drive spins up and the head hovers over the platter. If the utility says it's OK, it should be OK. I would use the one provided by the manufacturer and see what it says. Also do try the drive on another computer and see if the sounds persist.
 
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 Also do try the drive on another computer and see if the sounds persist.

 

 

 

The drive was from a previous build it did the same thing as well but the thing that is bugging me is I recently just re-installed my OS and it only started happening after the re-install, ever since I pulled the drive from the old build it hasn't done that till now.

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The drive was from a previous build it did the same thing as well but the thing that is bugging me is I recently just re-installed my OS and it only started happening after the re-install, ever since I pulled the drive from the old build it hasn't done that till now.

 

I would check the power options and see what is the set time for the drive to spin down or park its head. I'd think this is what the sound is being produced from.
I would contact the manufacturer's support to ask for some advice since the S.M.A.R.T. status indicates that the drive is completely healthy.
 
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its a healthy hard drive, its a power saving green drive meaning it parks the heads when not in use so its normal 

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My storage HDD is being a bit weird. It makes a single clicking sound. It seems like it is turning it self off or going into a sleep mode. The reason I'm asking is because if I'm not saving or making changes to the drive for a while I'll hear the single click when I try to access it. Defraggler says the drive health is good. Does the click mean I need a new storage HDD?

 

HDD: Samsung HD 103SI 1000.2 GB
Firmware vers: 1AG01118 
 
 
1 Read Error Rate 0 100 100 51 0x000000000009
3 Spin-Up Time 6340 ms 82 82 11 0x0000000018C4
4 Start/Stop Count 3,612 96 96 0 0x000000000E1C
5 Reallocated Sectors Count 0 100 100 10 0x000000000000
7 Seek Error Rate 0 253 253 51 0x000000000000
8 Seek Time Performance 0 100 100 15 0x000000000000
9 Power-On Hours (POH) 107d 6h 99 99 0 0x000000000A0E
10 Spin Retry Count 0 100 100 51 0x000000000000
11 Recalibration Retries 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
12 Power Cycle Count 610 99 99 0 0x000000000262
13 Soft Read Error Rate 3 100 100 0 0x000000000003
183 SATA Downshift Error Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
184 End-to-End error 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
187 Reported Uncorrectable Errors 6 100 100 0 0x000000000006
188 Command Timeout 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
190 Airflow Temperature 27 °C 73 63 0 0x00001B0D001B
194 Temperature 30 °C 70 58 0 0x0000220D001E
195 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 100 100 0 0x0000001599B5
196 Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
197 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
200 Multi-Zone Error Rate 0 100 100 0 0x000000000000
201 Soft Read Error Rate 0 253 253 0 0x000000000000

 

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