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I replaced my hard drive 13 months ago & now it is making clicking noise with white screen and then a file appeared with a ? on it. Does not look good does it? The hard drive is 320 - 7200 - should have lasted longer - right? What are my options
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The clicking noise and the folder/? icon is the "best" sign for a defective hdd.
there are not many options to handle that.
i use a external harddrive connector set and try to save as much data as possible from those failing drives - yes - in that case i first try to save the date and after that i try to boot the computer.
boot the from the setup disk and start the disk utility and try to check/repair the volume/permissions
if you don't have the possibility of getting a external usb hdd connector set - or simply have no important data on the drive - you can skip the backup part
good luck
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Hard Drives are inherently unreliable. No such things "should have lasted longer" backup backup backup
They aren't that unreliable! There are many factors to why a HDD may fail, and they do fail more often on mobile computers as the HDD is sensitive to motion. Another thing is to buy from a reputable brand, like WD or Seagate.
Still, there's no such thing as estimated life of an HDD.
I agree with that for notebooks but desktop hard drives are much more stable IMHO
Yes, but still unreliable. In fact you can get a whole host of other issues with them just because they are stationary. Such as if it's in a bad environment for an HDD, it doesn't leave that environment/conditions. Or if something is perpetually blocking the fan.
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usually fail cuz u bought seagate crap instead of a high-quality WD
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Seagate is great quality.
Seagate and WD, from personal experience, are the best at magnetic storage (HDD). But for NAND flash (SSDs), Corsair, Crucial and Kensington are all excellent.
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The only thing reputable about WD drives is that they have a 50% fail rate within the first 6months to 1 year and i am getting this from personal experience and tons of reviews on dif sites. i would recomend a seagate or samsung drive since they are built a little better and the ones i have have outlasted all WD drives i have had.
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