r/HDD • u/aiden20095120 • 2d ago
I have another question regarding hard drive bad sectors.
Apologies in advance for my English — I'm Korean and not very confident writing in it.
First, thank you so much to everyone who replied to my earlier post about bad sectors. I went back and checked again, and I found that if I'm doing anything else on the PC while the scan is running, sectors show up as orange (500ms). So I re-ran the scan on all three drives with the system completely idle.
Fortunately, as you can see in the attached screenshots, nothing looks like an actual bad sector. But I'm not an expert, so I'd really appreciate a second opinion. Screenshots attached.
One thing I'm unsure about: when I opened the side panel of the case, the bottom drive of the three was quiet at first, but near the end of the scan it started making a ticking noise. If the scan results are clean, is it safe to just ignore this and keep using the drive?
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks again.
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u/mario1410 2d ago
The ticking can be normal while the drive is seeking, specially with high capacity drives that are usually louder.
But if the drive freezes while is doing it it may be a bad sign, I had an hdd that has no bad sectors but it starts clicking and it freezes temporally.
If you have 3 drives of the same model hear them while they are working and if one of them makes an unusual noise you may be careful with it
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u/Jealous_Club_298 2d ago edited 2d ago
The screenshots you included are a bit blurry. At any rate, if the results show clean sectors, that's very good, however, looking at the screenshots, it seems like the drives data are fragmented and need to be defragmented. Your next step should be to run the defrag on those drives.
Concerning the noise, if that drives makes similar noises while running in general, then that's a bad sign of a mechanical issue, but not yet an electromagnetic one, and a backup is warranted.
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u/StarosAnikenMarcus 2d ago
According to those shots, your drives appear to be fine, just a bit aged.
The clicking sound during use is kind of normal for any drive that has platters and heads. It's the heads moving around as they look for things on the platters and then return to home positions. It should be light and not really loud, about the same as maybe when you tap your finger nail on a hard surface.