Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB HDD Click of death (closed and open case) ST31000333A8

This drive lasted about eight years (pretty good) before one day doing this. It was part of a RAID array.

[@nukedathlonman]

Ouch. But it's lived a nice long productive life. :-) I got lucky with my pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST3500320AS) drives - mine are still going strong after 9 years in 24-7 operation (NAS RAID 1). I admit I don't work the NAS overly hard so the drives while powered spend the vast majority of time spun down. And no worries, the NAS and drives are all being retired - strategy changed and now in need of something more then a simple document back up server. Given these drives had the nasty firmware lockup bug, I guess I got really lucky on a number of fronts with them.

[@3DJapan]

I have the same drive and it started clicking just after a year or so. It still worked but I was afraid to keep using it. So I took it out and got a new drive. Just now I ordered an adapter to connect it to USB and hopefully get some of my old data off of it.

[@DavidRothstein]

I have been able to get data off clicking drives by doing a sector by sector copy. Good luck!

[@nikolacirjakovic8995]

My drive behaviour is very similar to yours, have you done anything to fix it?

[@DavidRothstein]

No, it was part of a RAID and no data was lost. The drive was retired.

[@thomasgrady]

I had two of these. One died with the clicking after about 2 years. The other one lasted maybe 4 years before starting to click. I will never buy another Seagate hard drive again because of this. I may buy a Seagate SSD as there are no moving parts....

[@CenturianCornelious]

All it needs is a little WD-40.

[@DavidRothstein]

Ah gtk I'll try that :-)