On Saturday 03 Oct 2015 10:55:42 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/10/2015 11:36, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Recently I noticed that an old drive is clicking 3 or 4 times when it is > > powered up. Thereafter is stays quiet. I think it is a mechanical > > fault, because I placed the box on its side and the drive did not click > > when booting up. > > > > I ran smartctl short/long/conveyance tests and no errors are reported. > > > > In your experience is this something to concern myself with? There is > > not business critical data on the drive at present. > > Hard to tell. Obviously you have mechanical wear as the click stops when > the drive is tilted. That indicates slight wear in moving parts. > > But for now the drive is doing it's job without errors. So all we can > say is that you probably have a raised likelihood of a real failure > sooner rather than later. > > How you approach this depends on your needs and budget. If you have good > backups and can go without the data for a few days, there's no real harm > is waiting till it really packs up. If drives are cheap where you are > you might as well replace it now. I don't see any compelling reason in > your case why you should do one or the other at this point.
Thanks Alan, I'll take a quick back up of some data I'd like to keep, just in case. -- Regards, Mick
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