Why is my external 4 TB hard drive making singular clicking noises intermittently? It happens when I was going through directories and copying stuff from a soy folder I have there. I checked crystaldiskinfo, there's no signs of bad sectors (yet).

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Chud 12/20/25 (Sat) 16:39:51 №23305 [Quote]

Why is my external 4 TB hard drive making singular clicking noises intermittently? It happens when I was going through directories and copying stuff from a soy folder I have there. I checked crystaldiskinfo, there's no signs of bad sectors (yet).

Chud 12/20/25 (Sat) 17:31:53 №23306 [Quote]

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>4tb of the cheap storage
transfer your CEEEEEPEEEE OYYYYYY to the police, and don't store some critical info there, cause it's about to ack

Chud 12/20/25 (Sat) 20:44:13 №23309 [Quote]

mine makes tones

Chud 12/20/25 (Sat) 23:51:10 №23315 [Quote]

ive owned a lot of these boomer drives, clicks don't necessarily mean its dying

its more suspicious if the drive was never making a clicking noise and then began to do it years later

Chud 12/29/25 (Mon) 17:02:27 №23862 [Quote]

OP here. Now my external HDD is making more clicking noises and poorly responding. I'm fucking scared. I've had this HDD for at least 4 years. Western Digital drive if that matters. This didn't happen at its younger years.

Chud 12/29/25 (Mon) 17:03:01 №23863 [Quote]

I even heard a few beeping tones when the drive was connected.

Chud 12/29/25 (Mon) 18:35:40 №23867 [Quote]

Chud 12/29/25 (Mon) 19:28:27 №23868 [Quote]

>>23862
hope you made backups lil nigga it's over

Chud 12/29/25 (Mon) 23:34:03 №23895 [Quote]

>>23862
RIP to this nusoicacas pc o algo

Chud 12/29/25 (Mon) 23:35:30 №23896 [Quote]

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>Why is my external 4 TB hard drive making singular clicking noises intermittently? It happens when I was going through directories and copying stuff from a soy folder I have there. I checked crystaldiskinfo, there's no signs of bad sectors (yet).

Chud 12/30/25 (Tue) 03:11:31 №23940 [Quote]

Weirdly when plugged into another PC (I didn't access the files), it didn't make any noises. But for safety reasons I will make a backup. I'm a retard who didn't do 3-2-1 backup regularly.

Chud 01/03/26 (Sat) 16:06:15 №24290 [Quote]

if its seagate they have a tool to test drive health, im sure that western digital has something similar.

install this https://www.hdtune.com/download.html
do a full scan and it will pick up any bad sectors. also defragmenting would probably help with speed. worse case scenario back up now

Chud 01/03/26 (Sat) 18:56:58 №24307 [Quote]

If a spinning drive is making soft ticking/clicking sounds when actively reading and writing, it's fine.