Hard Drive click beep p6860

I installed a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT on my 6860. I installed it easily and it works fine... the only thing that worries me is every once in a while I will hear a (click beep) noise. I tried searching on the net on what it means... couldnt find much.

any help would be appreciated =)

 

Only thing i heard about that is, sometimes that type of thing happens before it's about to die... Hopefully not your case...

 

What do you mean by 'click beep'?

 

it makes a click click beeeeeppp stutter noise... exactly like that sometimes it doesnt happen for hours... sometimes it happens once or twice in 30minutes... I tried to notice if it occurs while im doing something in particular (it doesnt)... just seems random

 

hmm so prolly just when vista is doing it's thing and randomly accessing the HDD?

 

i think so... its temp is 54-55c... that seems normal... I can use it just fine... I noticed it doesnt really happen when im gaming... other then that it happens at purely random times... I tried looking for something on WD support and google... cant find much... I think im going to have to email support...

 

yeah see if they have anything to say...

 

could you possibly be hitting the shift key

 

I think i may have also read of people saying that if the put to much pressure on the palm rest over the HDD (the right side) it made noises. does it happen when your wrists are not resting on it?

 

Hmm, I have a WD in my other laptop that makes noises like that. Clicking is actually quite common particularly as the drives spins up or spins down. Is it an actual beep, as in a tone, or more of a chirp, or a screetch? Beep means different things to different people. Is it a loud or soft "beep"?

 

any progress on this?

I have the exact same problem with my new Macbook Pro. Happens very frequently when coming out of standby, but entirely randomly otherwise. It never when there is active disk use, and I don't notice any ill effects.

 

I created a youtube video for reference.

Is this the same?

www dot youtube dot com/watch?v=_gOhgaIMpPI

 

Hi.

have a look at the thread below

Try to find this firmware upgrad wdupd020.zip , the wd link appears to be down, but just try google.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=321202

Regards

John.

 

yeah, I'm active in that thread as well.

firmware update file says my drive is already current

I had high hopes - maybe a newer version of the utility will be released soon.

Has anybody else tried to flash this drive?

 

Having listened to the youtube video... Are you sure it's the hard drive? My DVD drive makes that noise. And it's not the noise made by the hard drive in my other laptop as I had originally supposed.

 

those were my thoughts exactly, and I dismissed the problem as that for about 2 weeks - then the sound happened when my ear was near the PC, and it is CLEARLY coming from the hard drive.

enough other people are having this problem with this particular after-market hard drive to be convincing as well.

i may have found a solution, but not sure yet! stay tuned!