No SMART warnings, no hitches in performance, no discernable vibration when the clicks are happening. I did just move the drives into an actual case from a Sabrent USB enclosure, I’m wondering if these sounds are normal and they were just muffled before. They are directly attached to a metal case now, and these clicks are audible in the next room over if it’s quiet.
How much disk activity is there? It kinda sounds like the drive is searching for something.
Sounds like a perfectly healthy hard drive to me.
Kids these days have been spoiled by silent hard drives. When I was young these clicks meant that the computer was thinking.
I was leaning towards thinking it might be a normal sound, it was too consistent not to be. The new case it’s in must just not be deadening the sound like the old enclosure, I might have to add some foam washers between the metal hard drive cages and the drives. And maybe a bit of foam in front and behind the cages without blocking the airflow.
I was worried I might have damaged the drive during the swap at first
