Random question regarding hardware !

[Turk4n]

If, I have an old HDD somewhere in my "old computer bin". I know that it makes a somewhat clicking sound inside, the question is; have air slipped in or is the headreader broken in any way?

What do you guys think?

[WingedPanther]

That tends to happen when the armature for the read/write head starts hitting something (like the side of the case). It usually means its days are numbered.

[Turk4n]

That tends to happen when the armature for the read/write head starts hitting something (like the side of the case). It usually means its days are numbered.

Heh, I feel like playing with it somemore. I guess I could run linux with it and disable logging ....

[TcM]

Well... my computer HDD did that after a couple years... and know what? It just went bad after a few months... had to replace it because files were becoming corrupted.