Question about my HDD

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I've recorded about a minute of my HDD and just wanting to know if it's dying or something far worse just making an annoying noise saving up for a replacement i just want to know if it's dying or not cause it's 500GB and i don't want to lose that space.

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If that clicking noise is the actual HDD itself and not your mouse, that is definitely a very bad sign and most likely means that the disk is failing due to a faulty head actuator or something similar!

My suggestion would be to backup all of your important data and replace the drive ASAP.

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If you have not done so, I would back up your hard drive ASAP. That sound is not normal, as you already know since you have started this thread. But that clicking usually indicates it is dying, no doubt about it.

Here is a website that actually has an archive of sounds of hard drives dying. Your issue sounds most like bad heads making a clicking sound.

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Yes, good idea! Just do incremental backups every week until you get the replacement drive.

Well hey, getting an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for your system at this point in time anyway ;)

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