My computer has been clicking intermittently today, usually during video playback (not streaming, from my computer) the video will slow to a halt and the computer will click for a few seconds. It’s pretty obviously the hard drive, and I’ll probably get a new one just in case, but is this necessarily a sign that the hard drive is going? I’m running an offsite backup utility at the same time (today for the first time after a scare of losing my data due to a borked SATA cable this morning), is it possible that the computer is just requesting data in wildly disparate physical locations and causing it to flail or something?
That’s the universal sign of a drive in it’s death throes. Better make sure you’ve got it all backed up.
I’d back up now and go get a new drive. Clicking almost always is one of the first signs of the drive starting to go.
Yeah, that’s what I figured, I’m running both a local and remote backup utility now, I’ll probably do a copy+paste of important stuff tomorrow as a failsafe, as well as order a hard drive.
Thanks.
Hard drive was the first thing I thought of as well before even opening this thread. I’ve never even heard of clicking being a sign of anything else, unless maybe fan blades rubbing on something or crickets inside the case.