Seagate 1TB External Clicking

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I have a Seagate 1TB external. Started clicking this morning, only on occassion. Works fine ... data trasnfer is fine, cause I copied about 365GB off it with no hassle. At times is just randomly starts clicking. I have had many drives, but this one seems like something is wrong.

Do I take it in, in which case if it behaves, I will look like a wally (no offence to any wally's on the forum)?

As I said, data transfer is fine.

Did a disk repair ... there were some issues but they were fixed. It's busy transferring a singe 65GB file off the drive now and there is barely a sound.

It's hooked up to a MB Pro on OSX 10.6.3.

Can I trust this drive in future?
 
No you can not trust it. Get the data off. And you can't take it back either, unless you can prove that the clicking arises directly from a manufacturing fault.
 
Bloody hell ... it is my back-up drive. No point in having a back-up of a back. Can one just buy another internal hard drive and swap out the actual drive in the casing?
 
Back it up now! its got one cable in the rubbish bin (get it? like "one foot in the gave") :D
JayN said:
Bloody hell ... it is my back-up drive. No point in having a back-up of a back. Can one just buy another internal hard drive and swap out the actual drive in the casing?
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Depends on if you can open the case and remove the HDD
 
Clicking drive = trouble. External drives = bad idea. The second one is bit of a generalisation but I lost a LOT of data when an external packed up, possibly as a result of lack of cooling which is why I stick to internal drives for storage and externals only for moving data around.
 
I use it as my time machine backup only, so that I can disconnect whenever I need to keep the drive and machine in different places. But as yet it hasn't moved from it's original position.

Can't be a heat issue ... the drive never gets warm as it is an incremental backup every hour, so no more than 100MB or so at a time. It's also been extremely cold here ... 10 degrees of so in the morning and the unit is on the desk.
 
As long as it was brought into the country via the proper import channels and was not grey market then it can be fixed / swopped under warranty for up to 3 years ( I think , depending on which model it is )
 
Was bought in January 2010 from PC Zone in Durban. I have the receipt. The thing is that it still works ... just clicks intermittently.
 
I would certainly try get it swapped out in that case, failing them not taking it back (PC Zone are known to be quite knobends when it comes to returns) try take the drive out and connecting it directly to your system. Could be something as simple as the power supply or dodgy wiring in the external unit.... hopefully.
 
w1z4rd said:
I think Seagates have a 5 year warranty on them.
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Normally yes, but iirc the Freeagent unit has a 3 year warranty. I have one here somewhere...

Get data off and get it swopped out.
 
Data is being transferred ... hasn't clicked in the last 200GB of data. It's well within guarantee period ... no question. I have two units, and I'll swap the power supplies around to eliminate that possibility. Thanks ... will keep you posted.
 
most enclosures allow you to remove the screws and install new hdd in old ones place,
 
My seagate Free Agent Desk 1TB did the whole clicking thing for a while and just died on the weekend :( so gunna take the POS back..
 
Fudzy said:
I would certainly try get it swapped out in that case, failing them not taking it back (PC Zone are known to be quite knobends when it comes to returns) try take the drive out and connecting it directly to your system. Could be something as simple as the power supply or dodgy wiring in the external unit.... hopefully.
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na... clicking is the HDD itself, LOL wait till its starts screeching :D (next stage)
 
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