rhkramer@gmail.com wrote on 7/24/20 4:28 PM: > On Friday, July 24, 2020 05:35:34 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> David Christensen wrote: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death >> >> But that's a different technology (and 20 years ago). > > You might not have read the entire article. > Having experienced this phenomenon multiple times on both Zip disks (!) and hard drives, I can say that my experience (YMMV) is that 100% of the drives that exhibit this phenomenon have failed sometime not long after the phenomenon began -- I recently had a hard drive stay alive and usable for a month or so after starting to click, but it did eventually permanently fail. All the other drives failed much more quickly than that. Reco wrote on 7/24/20 1:14 PM: > What about smartctl long test, does it show anything suspicious? Definitely you should try that, possibly multiple times if it happens to pass the first time. Frankly, I wouldn't trust the drive in any case -- if for some reason I *had* to continue to use it, I'd definitely put it in a RAID array of some kind, with a spare available to replace it at short notice. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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