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I bought this shitty 5TB Seagate External from Amazon a few weeks ago. It has started making a clicking noise at irregular intervals of 3 or 4 seconds during data access. It starts up fine and has no problem with data transfers. Is it just a loud drive, or is there an issue? I have my stuff backed up already, I just need to know if it is fucked, or if this is normal hard drive noise.
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I have a WD external that does that when plugged into USB3 but it's fine when plugged into USB2. I'm guessing it's an interface issue rather than a drive issue.
Don't know if anyone could shed any light on this?
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Sounds like the drive is going bad. Really sucks. My wife has the same exact looking drive (if pic is yours) and it doesn't do that.
I also have two of these (pic related). One 5 TB and one 8 TB and they don't make that noise either. If you bought it at a store, I would exchange it for another or get a refund.
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Bad drive, make backup now!
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