Do you have SMART enabled?
I think that on many, if not most, motherboards it's not only possible, but actually disabled by default. I always wondered why...
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Because of public perception.
Typically industrial drives report their real error rate because people in the business know all media has errors so when something doesn't report any, it's hiding them and will fail without notice.
Consumers freaked out when error messages were first enabled and stopped buying drives that reported their real error rates so companies started hiding them again because people bought worse drives that hid their errors over better drives that truthfully reported theirs.
Unfortunately, the same thing happens in politics, management and even personal relationships.....
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Makes a lot of sense! You, my friend, should participate more in this forum.
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It makes me smile that you found it interesting or useful.
Before IDE & SCSI, HD controllers were separate and some were programmable like an Amiga floppy controller so people would debate the merits of various encoding schemes, various RLL vs MFM vs GCR. Even many people in the business who realize that commercial drives are the same hardware but have less capacity think commercial drives are simply short stroked to reduce access time but in reality they use different encoding methods to increase error correction at the expense of storage. The same tradeoff exists for radio waves, etc.
Even SSDs have behavior like this in which drives using the same chips & controllers reporting differently.
http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
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Same here. I even keep a spare around for when a HDD finally kicks.
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I'm not sure what you are expecting to happen - but the actions that get happen as a result of "SMART monitoring is determined by the software that you use to monitor SMART. Perhaps you should look at something like Hard Disk Sentinel - where you can set Alerts and define what should happen if thresholds are reached.
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It's not about scheduled notifications. It's about everything showing up as "Good" (see screenshot in the OP), while my ears providing me with quite different data.
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I'd be surprised if the noise or clicking is your SSD drive (according to your screenshot) - they don't have moving parts. Does the clicking sound stop eventually - or just run 100% of the time. Is the noise only during "regular" access of standard hard drives?
I would remove the case and when you hear the noise - put a finger on each drive (beware they might be hot) and feel for vibration. Usually noise is a side effect of vibration.
Also stick your head in the case to determine where it is coming from - maybe a fan (either case, GPU, or heat sink - maybe coming in contact with a cable).
Could you case insides do with a clean? Not only can dust affect moving parts and cause noise, but it is also a great insulator of heat and airflow blocker which causes secondary problems).
I doubt SMART is your problem. Also read the link I posted under "The problems with S.M.A.R.T." - It isn't perfect and a much of the benefit comes down to how you analyse the results - and a snapshot from CrystalDiskInfo - probably isn't the best place to start, especially if you aren't' familiar with what you are looking at - like running it on a SSD to track down noise.
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The SSD would most likely be innocent, as it has no moving parts, could you post the HDD's screenshot(s)?
Seagate HDDs are especially "clicky".
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Nothing is below or over threshold. As you can see, it's all "Good".
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HDTune allows you to configure acoustic management, have you tried it?
Just as a reference, this is my HDD's SMART data. It's been clicking loudly since day 1 but, as you can see, is completely healthy.
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And it's clicking more when near death.
But it's Maxtor at that time that was outrageous. Because of its incident I swore never to buy Maxtor product ever again. xD
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The first click when it powers up is the drive arm unlocking.
Routine HD clicks are typically thermal recalibrations.
The last click when powered off is the drive arm latching into the park position.
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Uhh. I should probably look into it because my laptop's hybrid drive is making noise. Why you make noise?
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You can download CrystalDiskInfo and check. If SMART is ok, it's fine. The noise can drive you insane in no time, I know, I RMA'd mine twice before I gave up and learned to live with it.
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Hybrid drives are physical drives with and SSD buffer sort of thing. So, there is still an HDD to click. :)
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Yes, it's obviously not my SSD. Did you notice the other "Good" marks in the screenshot? Those are all mechanical drives.
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Admittedly, I only took a quick glance at the preview version of the screenshot. :)
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well, show us the other drives details and I'll tell you more
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I've had one drive show as "good" in CDI (and pass boot-time checks) with a few dozen reallocated sectors. It died within a couple of months.
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There are drives where some random clicking is normal. Also when they resume after shutting down on idle, win defaults at 20min.
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Well, it's happening while I'm actively using my computer, so I don't think it's related to resuming from idle.
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You have many, not all are under use constantly. There is an idle timer for each drive separately.
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It could be, but it's the same type of click. One would expect that different drives from different brands would sound a least slightly different, no?
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it could be the same as maybe only 1 goes idle? You can try to disable that in the power settings and I'm still waiting for the values of the other drivers ;-)
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I have one of those infamous 3TB Seagates, and it chirps every minute or so. I had to set uo a task to disable APM on boot/login to stop it.
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If it's a more quiet clicking, it's just the heads hitting the stops or changing direction back and forth across the platters. Fragmented drives are typically the cause of that, though some brands are also louder than others (Seagate Barracudas and Hitachi come to mind ...)
If it's a louder clicking, it's the heads crashing into the platters themselves. A bad/inconsistent power supply can also cause drive clicking.
SMART will report once bad sectors or read errors start popping up (a result of the heads crashing), and even then, only if they're outside the threshold range (which varies from manufacturer to manufacturer). By then, of course, you're already risking data loss.
If you're using a lot of drives, I'd recommend Hard Disk Sentinel. It's saved my butt more than once, especially on my home server.
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All I thought when seeing this pic is why the hell is there a pic of an anime girl in this software xD
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I hear those occasional clicks from my PC case and don't feel very smart for using SMART, as nothing shows up as bad.
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