Common signs of HDD failure ?

[R3-Flex]

So i have a 6 year old HDD  which is making lots of noise , should i be worried ? (data backed up last week)

[Godlygamer23]

What kind of noise to be exact?

[Oswin]

1 minute ago, R3-Flex said:

So i have a 6 year old HDD  which is making lots of noise , should i be worried ? (data backed up last week)

6 year old hdd? i have an 8 year old are you sure those are not the fans? things should start to crash 

[deadaccount69]

Download crystal disk info

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

And run it. It'll tell you the condition of your hard drive. But yeah a hard drive that old doesn't have much life left in it.

[R3-Flex]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

What kind of noise to be exact?

well it isnt a rhythmic clicking , its just raw noise.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Dying HDDs tend to do the "click of death" as the heads can't do their magic and suddenly swing around.

 

You can use a tool like CrystalDiskMark (or is it CrystalDiskInfo?) to ping its SMART info and use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes to figure out if any of the red entries are racking up.

[R3-Flex]

3 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Is it slowing down? Are you losing data?

a littile bit 5-8 gigs worth of files soo far.