Seagate 1.5TB hard disks suffer from "click of death"

[McKenzie!]

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I have a Seagate 1.5Tb Free Agent that I acquired when my fresh out of the box new Maxtor 1TB NAS drive ceased to exist. I devised a workable plan to get my information onto the unique 1.5Tb drive, and it started to show the EXACT same symptoms I see depicted by alternate users in this gathering. The drive will "click" and give me deferred compose washouts. I cannot duplicate or erase my information off the drive. I have utilized a USB link from a different USB drive which has various capacity advances to supply extra control. I have let the drive sit until it turns down. The just thing I have not done is evacuate the head from its walled in area. I moreover saw one user post up about chilling the head off. I am doubting that the drive will perform preferred in easier temps. I moved the drive to a different Vista workstation and tried to duplicate information off the drive onto a brand new WD 1Tb Black Caviar drive that I have set up to duplicate information to. The information demonstrates to be there, but the duplicate is unable to peruse much of the information from the drive. Out of 60 GB of information I was fit to pull 120Mb of information aggregate.

[Yitzchak909]

Well I moved the link from the head from the 2350 over to the Precision M75. It distinguished it, and the drive headed up ordinarily. I duplicated a few gigs of "waste" information, and the drive took it without issue. I erased the information, again without issue. I powered the head down, and carried it over down again. I am unsure what brought about the drive to run genuinely. Truth is told whatever the issue is could now be determined, but I don’t trust it. I am giving back where it’s due and set up to purchase a couple more Western Digital drives. I will accompany up to see if there is any further determination. In this way, to outline in my case I found a machine to join to that the drive could not "click" on. Once the clicking stopped I have composed information to the drive enduringly for 24 hrs straight with no issues. My following proposal could be for someone to pull the head from the nook and clean the SATA connector great to see if there is a detached connector issue or tarnished connector issues.

[pddaugusto]

So you were fit to successfully recovery your information via a more senior machine? I unequivocally got a certified terrible L, I had moved every last trace of the information on my workstation to the 1.5TB one I had reformatted and was in the methodology of moving things over when it erratically 'began'. Luckily I got my music studio indexes replicated before it went advance, but I have ALOT of different stuff (the drive just had 100 or somewhere in the vicinity gigs unhindered) I'm attempting to recover. I'm determined to attempt and track down a contraband duplicate of XP SP1 or something and attempt that out, I'll present if that aides or not it will be USB 1.0 speeds but recovering my information is more essential than how quick recovery it.

[Howitzer]

Yes, for whatever explanation a more senior machine worked fine. I was fit to move the information over, and I speedily furnished a proportional payback. I now need to WD 1TB Black Caviar Drives in disconnect removable SATA walled in areas, so I would be able to pop them out at will. I in addition utilize both drives to keep the information reproduced and moved down to something greater than one cause.

[samar69]

In my interaction I was fit to pull the information with a more senior machine off the drive. Along these lines, the issue in my case was practically the same as what has been reported. I was fit to utilize a more senior Dell machine, duplicate the information, and compose hefty results of information without any issue. Look towards the bottom of my first string which frameworks my consequences.

[Mayur_Jain]

This is a situation in customary with Seagate and Western Digital. The primary drive I ever acquired was a Maxtor 80 GB Firewire drive and that worked shiningly for seven years when I acquired it late in 2000. Then I bought an outside 160 GB head from Western Digital (Caviar IDE) and when that a 200 GB head from Seagate (Barracuda 7200.7). Both fizzled within a couple years of buy. So I purchased an additional drive the Western Digital MyBook 500 GB to store all my music, films and photographs (that drive took a soil rest within several years). Notwithstanding here we are at the fourth drive disappointment with the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750 GB drive which saved the sum total of my media (was not utilized as an alternate gadget, just as a center point to store all media matter). Fortunately, I studied from the a few former slip ups and went down the sum total of my iTunes media and videos/photos to optical media.

[Eru]

I'm assembling my outside drives from now on and utilizing just Hitachi items as the Deskstar line of hard drive utilizes a preferable sort of innovation Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, as contradicted to the shaky longitudinal recording engineering. I at present have one in an Antec outer drive walled in area and the display is out of this world. Not just that, I've set up a double-narrows drive nook from Vantec with RAID 1 arrangement for the purpose that all items that is duplicated over to one drive is went down promptly (otherwise known as reflected drive).

[Felix46]

Following one of hard drives crashed, we had to have it recuperated. I acquired the 1.5 outside Seagate for the motivation behind recuperation. When the information recuperation veteran aroused the drive the clicking began. Reluctant to put my recently recuperated information on it, I traded it for a unique one. Strangely enough, the reinstatement clicks simultaneously. Not beyond any doubt what to do, alternate than profit it.

[Aandaleeb]

I purchased a 1Tb Expansion drive actually before exams and caught it to a fresh out of the plastic new Western Digital HDTV media player. It was fine for possibly 2 weeks then the clicking began and gets worse day by day. At the outset films could play and the clicks could final possibly 10 seconds now following 4 more weeks the film stalls when the clicking begins. Thank my lucky stars that Amazon has excellent client aid and have expressed send it once again for a full discount. Today I purchased a Samsung Story Station alternately so I am able to attempt and recuperate my documents when the Seagate about-faces to the murkiness from whence it came.

[mathews]

I am particularly amazed that an ensemble such as Seagate is not issuing a review or any data on the situation. I am confident purchasers could feel more pleasing getting from them in the destiny if they were perceived to be committed to high caliber. When this however I remain skeptical about I will purchase a Seagate again, its unequivocally too unsafe.

[MACuser]

I attempted unplugging & reconnecting it a few times holding up concerning a moment every time. No go. Following having the drive unplugged for about 20 moments (and cooling it a little granted that I know that isn't ordinarily the issue), I connected it to and it was distinguished in spite of the fact that it was doing the click thing regularly. It stayed receptive extended enough for SeaTools to distinguish it. Both the Short DST and the Long DST passed, the Short Generic Failed, so I ran the Long Generic with repair turned on (it took 4 hours) and Passed. Today, it is receptive-I could probably get to my information. Anyway, the click carries on irregularly.