3 times at a row? It seems almost impossible to me… i would re-test tge drive with another power supply
It happened to me before with a 2 tb samsung (before seagate) running on a external enclosure that it did the click of death several times and didnt appear… when i connected directly to my computer it worked just fine… i did a complete backup of the drive thinking that if i turned off computer the drive could fail the next boot… well its passed a year and it is still working just fine in a daily basis… no bad sectors…
Lack of power does that to a drive…
