Dying Hard Drive?

[GlaZe08]

Hello.

Whenever i start a program/game my PC freezes up and my hardrive starts making sounds. it sounds like its starts spinning really fast. and after a few seconds i hear a pretty loud click and then everything starts up normally and works.
Sometimes this also happens when my game has been idle for awhile, and when i come back and move the mouse or something,  it sounds like the hard drive  starts spinning really fast and makes that click sound.

So, i'm wondering if this is my hard drive dying. Or if this is a normal thing in older hard drives.

[Silentprototipe]

Yeah, Sounds like shes dying there. Backup your stuff   

[191x7]

Its dying.

 

What does Hard Disk Sentinel say?

[GlaZe08]

11 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Its dying.

 

What does Hard Disk Sentinel say?

Its in Swedish, but it says everything is perfect. No warnings or anything. 

Update: Did a "fast selftest" too and it found no problems. 

[Falconevo]

Hard drive doesn't look dead, but it has probably gone to sleep, what you are hearing is the spin up time of it coming out of having a nap.

 

You can change this behaviour by having the disk(s) active at all times;

Control Panel > Power Options
Select the plan you are using, hit change plan settings
Select change advanced power settings

Under 'Hard Disk' Expand the options and it will have an option for 'Turn off hard disk after'
Set this to 0 to keep the drive online at all times and prevent spin downs

[GlaZe08]

7 minutes ago, Falconevo said:

Hard drive doesn't look dead, but it has probably gone to sleep, what you are hearing is the spin up time of it coming out of having a nap.

 

You can change this behaviour by having the disk(s) active at all times;

Control Panel > Power Options
Select the plan you are using, hit change plan settings
Select change advanced power settings

Under 'Hard Disk' Expand the options and it will have an option for 'Turn off hard disk after'
Set this to 0 to keep the drive online at all times and prevent spin downs

It was currently set to 20 minutes so this makes sense. Thank you!!

[Falconevo]

1 minute ago, GlaZe08 said:

It was currently set to 20 minutes so this makes sense. Thank you!!

No problem, some mechanical drives are very loud and almost sound like a 'latch' cracking when they spin up.

The Samsung Spinpoint F1s are built on older mechanical disk technologies so they are reliable but also very clunky and loud