WD10EARS Harddrive strange failure

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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Hello !

My Western Digital 1Tb WD10EARS Hdd suddenly is really slow. Just formatting it lasts about 1 hour, during that it makes strange “klicks”. Scanning it from a boot cd results in no broken sectors “surface scan”. Installing windows on it works, bud lasts for about 2 hours ! What could that be ? If the surface scan is okay, it means the firmware has a fail ? Is that fixable ? 

Yours
DS

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first change the sata cable and the sata port on the motherboard

after that if the problem continues copy your data if possible and rma the drive

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  1. There is no chance to rma it.

2. There is no important data on it, its just about the drive.

  1. Sure i already checked the cable, the mainboard aso… It’s the drive. 

Yours

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Thats a know bug affecting some drives. I dont know how to help you further. I have 2 greens drives and they perform allways fine… after several years. Hope that continues that way

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The clicks sounds like head crash to me. If you’re (un)lucky, the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic will show some pending sectors. This was my experience with such clicks.