Clicking Hard Drive!

ronnie3585

I have a 12 month old 2.4Ghz Macbook. My first HD had been clicking for some time before I realised it was a bad thing (thanks to a thread on this forum!). The first HD was replaced but within three weeks the second HD started clicking and was duly replaced. I am now on my third HD in less than five months and it has now started clicking!:mad:

I have the Apple Care extended warranty so I not too concerned in that regard. My question is; is it possible that there is some inherent flaw in my machine that is causing the HDs to fail or have I just been extremely unlucky with my repacement HDs?

I don't know if it matters but the outer casing of the machine had to be repaced during the summer after one of the keys stopped working. Also, the machine does not get a massive amount of use, at most three hours per day and that would be made up of web browsing and some word processing.

Any input would be appreciated:)

Sad Professor

Does the S.M.A.R.T. status indicate failure? You can find this in Disk Utility, just click on your drive and it's at the bottom. It should say "S.M.A.R.T. status: verified."

Also does verifying the disk bring up any errors?

ronnie3585

Sad Professor wrote: »

Does the S.M.A.R.T. status indicate failure? You can find this in Disk Utility, just click on your drive and it's at the bottom. It should say "S.M.A.R.T. status: verified."

Also does verifying the disk bring up any errors?

The S.M.A.R.T status says the status is verified. I verfyied the disk and it said that 'it appears to be OK'.

Thanks for that, was sure it was on the way out. Sounds like the last two that were replaced.

Elessar

Can you elaborate on this "clicking"?

I had similar issues so rang apple and had the mbp sent in for repairs. I got a call from the techie saying he was running some diagnostic program and could not find anything wrong. They replaced it anyway but the same sounds are there.

If it's a loud click every so often, it's the HDD parking the heads - perfectly normal. It can be turned off with HDApm as linked above - I run it everytime I start the computer.

ronnie3585

Elessar wrote: »

If it's a loud click every so often, it's the HDD parking the heads - perfectly normal. It can be turned off with HDApm as linked above - I run it everytime I start the computer.

In the first HD I thought that it was the HDD parking the heads. I then read the thread here about clicking HDs and asked a mate of mine who's a computer tech to have a look. He listened to it for about 30 secs and said to bring it straight to the dealer who confirmed that the HD was fooked. They were unable to recover any data from that one - thank god for back ups!

The clicking noise comes and goes. When it clicks it might do it for seven to eight minutes at a time with clicks at about thirty second intervals. It's not as loud as the HDD parking the heads but it is definitely noticeable.

rom

u can put the drive in the freezer and then try and read it. more info on google.

sometimes enough to bakup before click of dead