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Case studies include information about actual recoveries
completed within our lab. You may find similar symptoms to a problem
you are having with your drive. Here are a couple of recent cases:
• 250GB
Seagate Clicking
• 1TB Raid
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Click Of Death
Click of death is a term that became common in the late 1990s referring
to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals the device
has failed, often catastrophically. The phrase "Click of death" was coined
by Mac journalist Tim Robertson, and later publicised by David Pogue.
Originally the term was used to describe failing Zip drives, but hard
disk drives also became prone to the symptom.
Clicking hard drives are commonly the result of a mechanical
failure. However, there are times when this symptom arises due to
issues within the firmware, or system area, which prevent the drive from
calibrating properly. In physical
failures, the most common problem involves the read-write
heads. Either the heads have become physically damaged, or have become
dirty, or the preamplifier has failed. Unless the heads have started to
come apart and contacted the platter
surface, the problem is not as bad as it may sound. That's not to say
the recovery from these failures is easy, but the noise you hear tends
to exaggerate the actual symptoms. When customers hear their drive clicking,
they often times will visualize the head scraping, or crashing into objects
within the drive. There are times when that is the case, however, most
of the noise that is heard, is due to the head assembly hitting a limiter
as it sweeps back and forth across the platters looking for the information
it needs to calibrate. This limiter keeps the heads from sweeping too
far across the platter.
The important thing to remember is if your drive is clicking or making
any unusual noises at all, you should not power up the drive at all. Continuing
the operate the drive can cause further data loss. If you would like more
information about our services and how we can help you when you hear the
dreaded Click of Death, please call 1-800-717-8974.
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