CyberDyneSystems Admin (type T-2000)  More info | Feb 01, 2021 09:50 | #1 I have a new external, one of a pair, that is making increasing clicking sounds. (about 4 to 5 months old. the clicking sounds started a few weeks ago. GEAR LIST
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110yd Senior Member 790 posts Likes: 35 Joined Jan 2005 More info | Feb 01, 2021 10:29 | #2 I have seen a number of USB external drives fail because of the "USB interface"....The drive itself has been good. In my situation I removed the drive, and put it in a new USB hard-drive enclosure.
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chuckmiller Goldmember  More info | Feb 01, 2021 11:05 | #3 The diagnostics do not evaluate mechanical components such as the motors and the swinging arm, which is usually the source of a tick. .
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Bcaps I was a little buzzed when I took this  More info | Feb 01, 2021 18:57 | #4 It may be from the preventive wear leveling: - Dave | flickr
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JohnfromPA Cream of the Crop 11,255 posts Likes: 1525 Joined May 2003 Location: Southeast Pennsylvania More info Post edited over 2 years ago by John from PA. | Feb 01, 2021 20:01 | #5 duckster wrote in post #19189186  They do live in the States, thank you for the link. Bcaps wrote in post #19189342 It may be from the preventive wear leveling: https://community.wd.com …tive-wear-leveling/249579 Is it a WD Easystore? Is it “preventive” or “pre-emptive”? From the manual for an Ultrastore drive Pre- emptive Wear Leveling (PWL) This feature provides a solution for protecting the recording media against mechanical wear. In cases where the drive is so busy with incoming commands that it is forced to stay in a same cylinder position for a long time, the PWL control engine initiates forced seeks so that disk lubricantmaintains an even distribution and does not become depleted. This feature ensures reliability for applications that perform a high incidence of read/write operations at the same physical location on the disk. We should also note that Jake said "about 4 to 5 months old. the clicking sounds started a few weeks ago" so this appears to be something new with an existing drive,
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gjl711 "spouting off stupid things"  57,716 posts Likes: 4035 Joined Aug 2006 Location: Deep in the heart of Texas More info | Feb 01, 2021 20:03 | #6 You could download the SMARTmon Not sure why, but call me JJ.
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