My secondary hard drive just started having problems out of nowhere.
It's a 2½ old Western Digital 1.5TB Caviar Green, and it suddenly started turning itself off. I've ran chkdsk and looked it up on HD Tune Pro, but they can't detect any problems with the drive.
And what makes me scared is the small clicking noise I can hear before it disappears. It happens every few hours and the computer must be restarted in order for the drive to show up again.
Is there anything I can try or should I get a new one ASAP?
The clicking noise could be the reader doing some weird shit inside the HDD. Sounds like a mechanical issue to me.
2½ year old isn't THAT old so I guess you could take a peek inside the drive and see if everything looks ok. I still have few 7 - 8 year old IDE HDD's in my computer and they work like a charm.
If you still have warranty, go get a new one.
It sounds like it might be a power supply problem. Try and install a different PSU and see if the problem still happens.
Clicking from the HDD usually indicates a failing drive, but this sounds pretty uncharacteristic from a 2 year old WD drive. Could be power supply like bohb said, but it wouldn't hurt backing up important files asap.
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