Having owned a G50V-A1 Starting to have a prolbem after 1 months.

My harddrive started ticking every 30 seconds or so just a quick ticking noise. It dosn't really bother me when im doing somthing like browsing the internet but when your playing a game it happens more often and it causes a brief half a second to a second pause in the game or a skip in framerate almost. It's really starting to get annoying, I defragged and cleaned up my hard disk the best I know how with no results. I've read some other posts on these forums about people having similar hard drive ticking noises with other laptops but none are described quite as mine is. Anyone have any idea what this might be or how I may fix it?

 

Sounds like a hard drive reaching end of life. Waaay early and I would suggest having Asus send you a replacement.

 

Some HDDs will tick like that because of a bug in their firmware, which causes them to park the RW heads too often.

But if yours "just started" and it didn't do it in the past, then I tend to suspect hardware malfunction.

See my Tips and Tricks for some ways to verify your HDD's health. That will give you more info, perhaps.

But in any case, I'd request a replacement from warranty as XeroWings suggests.

But first of all, BACKUP YOUR DATA!!!

 

I ended up taking my HD's out of Raid 0 and back to a non raid setup. It seems to have fixed my problem but I have only been using it for about 30 min. I will post an update in a day or two.

 

Yeah I got that problem until I disabled free fall protection or drop protection or whatever it's called in the BIOS. I'm also on RAID 0.