HD Spin and click sounds

Hello all, I have a 2month old Asus G73J laptop and well I'm experiencing an issue that at first I considereded normal but maybe there's more to it than I thought

It comes with 2 Western Digital drives: wd5000bevt-80a0rt0 and now and then I can hear one of the drives spining and a click noise. The system becomes unresponsive for a moment until it finishes spinning (like a sudden hiccup). is that normal?

I'm working under Windows 7 64bit

 

Sounds like your main HDD is fubar.

 

Your hard drives may be set to spin down after a certain interval, check your power management settings. If it's not that, try running a SMART test on your drive. There are a number of free tools that can show you SMART info and do self-tests.

 

I have done the tests provided by WD (SMART and extended test) and it claims my HD is OK.

Although it does work I think there's something fishy about about it. I mean for example I have Fallout: New Vegas installed on it and while I'm playing, the games freezes for a momment when you hear the HD spining (then, after the spining, the game goes on smoothly)

 

I haven't had much luck with WD's drives, and one specifically also exhibited the same behavior [clicking, stalling] Moved it over to another machine to test it, everything was fine for about a day and half, WDs software said it was fine, then from out of nowhere windows tells me my drive has failed.

You might want to back up any critical data. . . just in case

 

Hmmm, my Momentus XT is also making similar noise.

My laptop is only 2 days old and im getting this problem.

 

For Momentus it's a power saving feature. Don't worry about it. If you don't like the clicking you can find free software to edit the power saving settings to prevent it from doing that. All it's doing is moving the needle to save power etc. It's NOT breaking.

 

Thanks for the clarification.

Is there anyway to edit it? I would want to remove that clicking noise, as it brings bad memories to me.