I’ve acquired a WD10EARS HDD recently. Everything has been working fine with it until recently. I’ve noticed when the drive is in idle mode, it generates a strange loud click noise every few seconds/minutes randomly. In response, I’ve scanned the entire drive for bad sectors and errors, but no errors found.
I’ve checked around and it seems there are other people having the same issue:
* http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/933766-western-digital-wd10ears-making-noises-when.html
* http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/WD10EARS-keeps-on-spinning-Win7/m-p/41209/highlight/true