Need help identifying weird PC ticking sound

[wolnavi]

Hi guys, so short background, was using my PC halfway one day and power tripped. found out PSU popped and changed it..

Now my PC has a weird ticking noise, I took everything back out from the case to isolate and it might be coming from my HDDs, as the PSU was silent. But I am not 100% sure if the ticking is cause of the HDDs? Need your expertise to verify if this is the dreaded HDD click of death? But my SMART data so far all good, just that one of the drive is at 50C

The sounds can be heard around the following timestamps:

• 0:00
• 0:10
• 0:21
• 0:23
• 0:35

I've tried to boost the sound as much as possible, so you might have to up the volume a bit more..




Thanks

 

[tigerwoods]

HDD click of death

 

[wolnavi]

HDD click of death

Any way to tell which HDD is the one besides manually listening to each one of them?

 

[Phen8210]

Any way to tell which HDD is the one besides manually listening to each one of them?

How to tell if you dont listen

Test them 1 by 1, unplug the rest.

OR if you unplug all and the sound is still there

 

[koohansen]

HDD clicks of death

 

[tsteo77]

Any way to tell which HDD is the one besides manually listening to each one of them?

I assume if you don't wish to put your ear close to the hdd to listen hard for clicking sound. Try plug in one hdd at a time to check which is the faulty hdd then. Changing port and cable might also identify if problem not the hdd.

 

[Orcmors]

Any way to tell which HDD is the one besides manually listening to each one of them?

Try downloading CrystalDiskInfo.

If it's clicking, odds are, it's been throwing up errors in SMART.

 

[Phen8210]

Try downloading CrystalDiskInfo.

If it's clicking, odds are, it's been throwing up errors in SMART.

OP mentioned that smart data is all good, trust him.

 

[Orcmors]

OP mentioned that smart data is all good, trust him.

Must've glossed over that. My bad.

 

[wolnavi]

I’m so confused now…

I have

• 1x WD Black 2TB
• 1x Toshiba 6TB
• 2x WD Black 6TB
• 1x WD Black D10 External Drive 8TB

And I unplugged every one of them and plugged them one by one to listen to them individually

And all of them have that stupid clicking sound!

One of the WD Black 6TB had a worse grinding sound, that one is definitely failing no matter what

Looks like I’m gonna be in huge debt now to replace all of them… fk

 

[naked123]

I’m so confused now…

I have

• 1x WD Black 2TB
• 1x Toshiba 6TB
• 2x WD Black 6TB
• 1x WD Black D10 External Drive 8TB

And I unplugged every one of them and plugged them one by one to listen to them individually

And all of them have that stupid clicking sound!

One of the WD Black 6TB had a worse grinding sound, that one is definitely failing no matter what

Looks like I’m gonna be in huge debt now to replace all of them… fk

rip

 

[tigerwoods]

I’m so confused now…

I have

• 1x WD Black 2TB
• 1x Toshiba 6TB
• 2x WD Black 6TB
• 1x WD Black D10 External Drive 8TB

And I unplugged every one of them and plugged them one by one to listen to them individually

And all of them have that stupid clicking sound!

One of the WD Black 6TB had a worse grinding sound, that one is definitely failing no matter what

Looks like I’m gonna be in huge debt now to replace all of them… fk

Your PC not plug into surge protector?

 

[oddbasket]

Should have disconnected your case fans when you took the video to reduce noise, maybe the sound came from a fan near you hdd cage, who knows?

 

[wolnavi]

Your PC not plug into surge protector?

Got, when power tripped the surge protection also got taken away, now the surge protection LED no more lit up

Should have disconnected your case fans when you took the video to reduce noise, maybe the sound came from a fan near you hdd cage, who knows?

Ok tonight I try, I stay near the future Loyang Viaduct so very noisy during daytime can’t tell the difference of the noise

 

[oddbasket]

Ok tonight I try, I stay near the future Loyang Viaduct so very noisy during daytime can’t tell the difference of the noise

While you're at it put a finger onto the centre of each fan on your gpu and cpu one by one to stop it momentarily and see if the sound goes away, at least to eliminate them as the culprit. Fans usually spin slower and sometimes start making noise when starting to fail.

 

[luei74]

Bro quickly backup your data and MTL

 

[wolnavi]

While you're at it put a finger onto the centre of each fan on your gpu and cpu one by one to stop it momentarily and see if the sound goes away, at least to eliminate them as the culprit. Fans usually spin slower and sometimes start making noise when starting to fail.

Ok will do thanks

Bro quickly backup your data and MTL

Yes, for now I won’t power up the drives, waiting for 10.10 to buy new NAS before backing it all up

 

[Godeau]

Sounds more like fan rattle and hit onto a grille or a loose cable, than hdd click of death