6tb black clicking every second

Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I’ve heard of PWL (Preventive Wear Leveling).

I’m reading some people are getting this every 5 seconds. But I hear a very consistent series of 2 clicks every 1 second. The first click goes and then 0.2 seconds later a bigger chunkier click (it’s chunkier because the whole drive vibrates if you hold the case that it is attached to. Then a second later, the first click goes and repeats.

Is this a faulty drive?

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Hi,

You can check out the given below link:

https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16309

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Homesauce, I have two NEW WD Black 4TB drives. They click every 2 seconds or so. This is NOT Windows. I rebooted and stopped in the BIOS for at least 3 minutes. The clicking was the same and Windows was not even booted. The drives are in a Windows RAID 1 setup, but, as I said, they do it even if Windows is not running. I downloaded and ran Data Life Guard, and it says both drives are fine. It’s annoying when it’s quiet, but I guess it’s normal. The way my drives are mounted is metal to metal. I’m considering trying to cook up some sort of isolation like grommets or some such.

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The drives were thrasing around when new in the first few days. But they are quiet now. Not sure why.

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homesauce, I’m SUSPECT (not sure) that maybe my ASUS BIOS is doing something. Going to try a few things there. Mine have been in for quite a while and still doing it. Are you turning your system off and on, or does it stay on?

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This is caused by “PWL”. You can google this to see what it is. It’s in the hardware/microcode. You cannot change it. My drives have to be mounted vertically, that is, the power and sata at top or bottom. I had them at the bottom. Just as a test, I rotated the drives 180 so the power and SATA is not at the top. Still making the noise, but it seems less with them mounted this way. Time will tell.

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If I put my ear up to my case, I can hear the clicks every second. But they are not audible from 3 feet away from my case.

When I first got my drives, you could hear them from across the room.