Hey Guys,
I bought a 2TB Saumsung hard drive in March for a new build. It was fine up until about 2 weeks ago when it started making an audible clicking sound and it began to run really slowly (unable to run games off of it, 10x to unrar a file, etc)
I didn't want to lose all my data so I bought a new drive and cloned it with Acronis. Changed the drive letter and bingo. All is well.
Problem is I did a full format on the old drive and now it is working fine and I can hear no audible sound. I know that bad sectors can be "fixed" by a full format but the audible sound? Surely not.
Now I don't know what to do. I want to RMA it because I don't trust storing data on it but will the supplier send me a replacement for a temporarily working drive?
Can I prove that it has had problems? I assume that no bad sectors will show up in tests as the format has hidden them and if I use it until the sound returns I risk losing what I store on it.
Any advice welcome.