Seagate Barracuda 4TB HDD weird "Click"

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  • Tennobyte
    PCHF Member
    • Mar 2025
    • 28

    #1

    Seagate Barracuda 4TB HDD weird "Click"

    I searched this question in internet, i found some articles about “click of death” but… Give a me a hope if that is not it.

    The Problem:
    I have two of exact those drives, they are used as auxilliary, the system is located on some Toshiba P300 HDD which has no such sounds. (Ye i’m using HDD instead of SSD, bear with it)
    They are not used oftenly, and most of time they are 0% load in task manager.
    But sometimes devils wakes up in those drives and makes it “Click”, the click is pretty strong, I mean, it’s very sensitible through casing, and pretty loud.
    The Disk is not used, however the “click” appear. The click can be characterized as single head knock in each ~10 seconds. If I unplug SATA connector during disk clicking, it will stop clicking and annoying me.
    Also, both of disks click at the EXACT same time, they are both! First disc, then in few miliseconds equal to avg ingame ping time second disc.
    Those Drives SMART in “CrystalDiskInfo” is (GOOD), hard disk sentinel (GOOD), and in victoria is “Unideal” (I think it’s because of Seek Error Rate that is same for all seagate drives)
    Drives has no problems with no data access, write and read cycles. No corrupted files. It behaves as average SMR drive would be.

    Maybe, just maybe, those drives will work for 5 years without problems and i’m overreacting, but this click is obviously is not 100% perfectly normal, and is annoying.

    I also aware of Seagate “Seatools” software. It also says everything gud.
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  • Tennobyte
    PCHF Member
    • Mar 2025
    • 28

    #2
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    Maybe it will tell you something, Firmware looks weird.

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    • Tennobyte
      PCHF Member
      • Mar 2025
      • 28

      #3
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      Maybe it will tell you something, Firmware looks weird.

      Pro mining crypto 3000 firmware

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      • Bruce
        PCHF Moderator
        • Oct 2017
        • 10697

        #4
        How old are the drives, and when did this click start happening?

        If the drives aren’t used often, is there is reason why are they left plugged in?
        Why not only connect them when needed?
        Anything mechanical, if in use, is wearing out.

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        • Bruce
          PCHF Moderator
          • Oct 2017
          • 10697

          #5
          How old are the drives, and when did this click start happening?

          If the drives aren’t used often, is there is reason why are they left plugged in?
          Why not only connect them when needed?
          Anything mechanical, if in use, is wearing out.

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          • Tennobyte
            PCHF Member
            • Mar 2025
            • 28

            #6
            Drives i bought used. From hands. They are 2021 year 6 Jan manufactured. They are SATA drives. not some external USB

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            • Tennobyte
              PCHF Member
              • Mar 2025
              • 28

              #7
              Drives i bought used. From hands. They are 2021 year 6 Jan manufactured. They are SATA drives. not some external USB

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              • Bruce
                PCHF Moderator
                • Oct 2017
                • 10697

                #8
                Originally posted by Tennobyte
                not some external USB
                Ah, alright then.
                And when did the clicking start?
                Not that it matters really.

                You only have two choices;
                [ul]
                [li]ignore the click and use as normal[/li][li]assume it is the start of the end and replace them[/li][/ul]
                If you continue to use them, make sure you are regularly backing up any important data on them (and on any of your drives for that matter).

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                • Bruce
                  PCHF Moderator
                  • Oct 2017
                  • 10697

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Tennobyte
                  not some external USB
                  Ah, alright then.
                  And when did the clicking start?
                  Not that it matters really.

                  You only have two choices;
                  [ul]
                  [li]ignore the click and use as normal[/li][li]assume it is the start of the end and replace them[/li][/ul]
                  If you continue to use them, make sure you are regularly backing up any important data on them (and on any of your drives for that matter).

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                  • Tennobyte
                    PCHF Member
                    • Mar 2025
                    • 28

                    #10
                    I’m too irritable to ignore this. This makes my Jabba suffer. (I literally was typing smh and it got removed by chrome lag, perfect)
                    Click didn’t started instantly after buying drives used.
                    Also, i’m kind of fearless to risk and dumb at the same time, the best idea i’ve got is to unplug the drive, shake it in mid air, and carefully plug back.
                    This **** worked for like 1 month until i touched this fragile thing again when cleaning my PC.
                    (I did that only for one of these two drives, but both of them behaving identical)

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                    • Tennobyte
                      PCHF Member
                      • Mar 2025
                      • 28

                      #11
                      I’m too irritable to ignore this. This makes my Jabba suffer. (I literally was typing smh and it got removed by chrome lag, perfect)
                      Click didn’t started instantly after buying drives used.
                      Also, i’m kind of fearless to risk and dumb at the same time, the best idea i’ve got is to unplug the drive, shake it in mid air, and carefully plug back.
                      This **** worked for like 1 month until i touched this fragile thing again when cleaning my PC.
                      (I did that only for one of these two drives, but both of them behaving identical)

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                      • Tennobyte
                        PCHF Member
                        • Mar 2025
                        • 28

                        #12
                        Additional info, i’ve tried fancy function called “Spindown” in the seatools. The drive instantly started up because of opened task manager (monitoring drives) but, it gave me exactly one, same “Click”. No more no less. I think these constant click may be a initialization? But what causes it? Uhhh my head…

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                        • Tennobyte
                          PCHF Member
                          • Mar 2025
                          • 28

                          #13
                          Additional info, i’ve tried fancy function called “Spindown” in the seatools. The drive instantly started up because of opened task manager (monitoring drives) but, it gave me exactly one, same “Click”. No more no less. I think these constant click may be a initialization? But what causes it? Uhhh my head…

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                          • PeterOz
                            PCHF Technical Response Team
                            • Mar 2021
                            • 4190

                            #14
                            Your drives sound like they are on the way out.
                            As long as you are using the computer the drives are spinning.
                            It does not matter if you are writing/reading from the drives.

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                            • PeterOz
                              PCHF Technical Response Team
                              • Mar 2021
                              • 4190

                              #15
                              Your drives sound like they are on the way out.
                              As long as you are using the computer the drives are spinning.
                              It does not matter if you are writing/reading from the drives.

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