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    hard drive sounds...

    since my hdd's only ever live inside my case is it normal for one to make click and grinding sounds as it works away - I've got an external one on the desk now as back up. just wondering, thats all
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    Sure, clicks and grinding are all fine. And should a little smoke start to creep out of your USB ports, that's fine too....it's just cooling down*.






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    yeah is perfectly normal u should hear the raptors or the scsi hdds in me server they sound like washing machines
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    for me the clicks are always there - it's when they get louder that you need to start to worry. One of my disks has just started doing this, now waiting for the S.M.A.R.T test to fail in the next few months before it decides to die ;/

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