Hard Drive makes 'click'

[porketero]

Well, my PC has a mechanical Seagate hard drive (it has another SSD but it has nothing to do with it) and I have noticed that sometimes (many times) it makes a clicking sound, and then it continues normally… I don't know if what's happening to it is that it gets stuck, or if I could lose information... I hope it's nothing serious.
Regards

[cobito]

Check the SMART to see if it gives any warnings. And to be sure you can use SeaTools.

[Bm4n]

As long as it doesn't make a clack… :chuckles: Any strange noise is an ill omen, so start making backups.

[lforos]

Although it sounds a bit technical, my WD started by clicking, after a few days it started with a click-click-click and ended up never starting up again... ;D

More seriously, after starting with noises that seem to "get stuck", it gave me occasional problems starting up Windows and ended up failing. This type of noise is usually caused by problems with the read/write heads.

You can try it on another computer to see if the source is another, but the most normal thing is that the disk is failing. If it is occasional, it can still last for a while, but, as you have been told, I would make a backup and start looking for alternatives for replacement.

Look here to see typical noises of hard drives about to break... Is Your Hard Disk Making Strange Clicking Sounds?

[porketero]

Bueno, gracias por la ayuda a todos, lo que haré será hacer un bakcup y comprar un HDD nuevo, lo usare temporalmente para pruebas hasta que muera. Thank youuu!!!