In my experience when hard drives make ANY audible new noise other than their normal noise, that's a call to you it is failing and all of your data can be lost in a heartbeat.
In my experience when hard drives make ANY audible new noise other than their normal noise, that's a call to you it is failing and all of your data can be lost in a heartbeat.
Yeah, I've lost a couple of hard drives over the years, but this one has always made that kind of a noise. I wish I could demo an HD drive before I purchased a new one.
Click HERE for a quiet hard drive. Click HERE for an enclosure, which will be necessary because you intend to use it externally. You'll also need to buy an SATA cable.