I notice there are come clicks from my before 2 day buy drive. this happen random sometimes, many minutes no load clicks, but sometimes every 2 sec a click. I test with wddatatlife guard. no messages are output. Only there are some 1 under warranty. see screenshot what smart says
I read that clicks can be problems, that data are bad read. so i test with hd-tune media test which show how many mb are read every second.
I start the screen record, after i hear the click. You see the 4. sector is read 39 sec and a rate of 15 MB/sec
Only 2 click is hear by reading the sector. Other sectors have no click
other sectors read in under 10 sec and reach a rate of 90-104 megabyte/sec
So it seem the media is bad in this range. I understand that media can be bad in some range, but wy there is no reserve sector use.
sometimes the sector is read very slow but in 90% of case the sector have no click and is read with 88 -92 Megabyte.I also have a short Video, and here can see, that on 4. sector, data is only read with 4.5 megabyte/sec. this is the slowest i get. During this 4. sector run, i hear more than 4 clicks.
under normal usage, I hear sometimes click every 2 sec, then there is no click hear for several minutes. I guess there are more sectors
have problems, but i of course do not sit long before my computer and watch the hd-tune Media test what sectors read very slow too
I have spend time to transfer all my 400 gb of data to the drive. I know that this high datadensity on harddisk is critical, so i have buy a WD red, in the hope, that it is more safe. Or is there maybe a newer firmware out, that do better error sector handling ? .
Is there hope, that all work in future better. How many reserve gigaytes are available for the drive ?. and how can i better force the drive that it use a reserve sector.
