right it just clicked 3 times within the space of a few seconds a few minutes ago

i thought the clicking was similar to regular harddrives when they are doing a lot of reads and writes all over the place they are trying to move around fast .... usually signs of a very fragmented drive ...

try defragmenting it and see if it clicks as often anymore ..?

I sent an email to SOS a few days ago and they sent me the following URL.

http://www.iq.sony.com/srvs/autoresponse.asp?id=127613

I am feeling very lazy but will try it someday. I do need to defragment as well…the machine has become quite slow of late…

Has this been a constant issue with many TR owners?  I mean that is really lame…

Mine clicks any time there is access to the hard drive and it has been EXTREMELY slow for transfering any files and it has been like this for weeks…  Yet it hasn’t crashed…hmm. Could it be from using and overwrite program?

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After following the link you provided, my HDD CRASHED :?
I called SONY today and they arranged me for shipping my TR back to SONY repair site. My TR can’t locate the HDD anymore. Even I used the recovery cd, it doesn’t work. Anyway, thanks for the link coz I expect them to change my Hitashi HDD to Toshiba HDD.  :x

PS. Mine is TR3A, 1 month old.

Just checked and I have the Hitachi drive too.  Like I need something else to worry about…

i would guess sony is keeping it hush hush…  i went through 2 hitachis before they gave me a toshiba

perhaps the deathstar is back!

:shock:

to keep my computer from parking i decided to install a program called “Silent Drive”.  It works great.  Althougth your hd will be constantly reading your drive every 5 seconds, i think that’s better than hearing that freaky bang bang bang every 15 seconds (usually when I’m playing mp3’s).

the sound it makes resembles the boot up sound.  When you turn your computer, you’ll hear a click.  Now imagine that clicking every few seconds and that’s what killed my first two hd.  i used to have a recording, but sony wiped those files along with any other files i had.  boo

I think mine is toshiba, and that was clicking sometime ago…dont know if it still does since I haven’t used my TR in a while.

The clicking sound in HDs (in general) is the automatic remapping of bad (unreadable) sectors by the internal controller.  This is not abnormal, as long as it does not become something permanent.  When there is too much remapping (bad drive, major temperature differences, etc) the relocation table gets full and the the drive starts failing…. As a matter of personal policy, I change my laptops HDs soon after “the click” starts.

Furtunately now the TR HDs can be purchased at semi-reasonable prices in places like CDW, saving you having to send the laptop to Sony.

Best,
Marcelo

i was under the impression that it was a power saving feature.  I read an article that the clicking sound was caused by the parking of the head.  If you have a hitachi, i believe IBM has a software where you control the power saving feature (i.e. turn off or on this feature)

When my TR3A shipped it’s hard drive was also making the clicking sound.  But when it did the computer would freeze until the noise stopped.  Of coarse this was annoying but I didn’t worry to much about it until a few hours later when the computer refused to boot and the hard drive made a constant clicking sound.  Sent it into Sony (warrenty) and they replaced the hard drive and now it works perfectly.

Everywhere I’ve been to has people talking about “the click of death.”  From what I’ve gathered as soon as your hard drive starts making a clicking sound it’s going to die soon.  This seems to be a common problem with the TR series.

I’ve had that problem with my iomega zip drive…hope it doesn’t happen with my TR.

Sorry that was me…

Yeah this issue has been TICKING ME OF   also!

My TR5MP is only a few weeks Young ...

Noticed my hard drive being constantly active even when I was not, and much more noisy ( we are talking irratation here lol ) than my Vio HeX ....

However it IS glowing orange ~ kindda just put it down to alot of background security stuff running. Shame the Volume settings cant help Not sure if I would describe as a click though *ponders* you dont think we are being over protective Parentals here do you ??  :wink:   

Well, I have a UK spec TR2MP with the 40GB drive but mine is a Toshiba model. It seems that people having the problem have Hitachi drives.

If your buying from a shop you could always ask to try it first then look in device manager to see whats fitted. I’ve had no problems with the Toshiba which is a MK4004GAH.

I come on here every day & don’t recall anybody mentioning problems with Toshiba drive but no, not 100% sure.

I’ll post a new thread and see what feedback is.