Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Cricket
What do you mean you hear the drive "click off"? Is it just one click or is it a constant clicking until the hard drive stops? Is the click loud? And does this happen randomly or are you doing something specific each time?
And your computer doesn't freeze up at all?
Do you have the hard drives set to turn off after a period of inactivity in Power Management?
Have you tested the hard drives with the Western Digital diagnostic software yet? And are either of these the Special Edition (JB) hard drives with the 8MB cache?
Also make sure the power cable is fully inserted and secure in the hard drive.
 Cricket |
Sorry for my delayed reply.. I haven't been receiving email notifications. Anyway, by click off, I mean that it sounds like it does when you shut down your computer. The hard drive "clicks" and then you hear it start slowing down, and then you hear another click within like 1-2 seconds and it starts coming up to speed again. It happens randomly.. I could be playing a game, browsing the Web, etc, and I'll hear it. My computer doesn't lock up or anything.. it just continues on like nothing happened which leads me to think that the 3 year old drive which has Linux on it is the one that is dying on me. My 120GB is one of the special edition 8MB cache. I ran the WD Diagnositcs, it reported that both drives "passed".