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shmokes:
Careful . . . I see a veiled insult in that last post  :P

It's actually not the click of death, per se. Perhaps it may as well be, but what I'm hearing is the hard drive spin up for a good five seconds or more then spin back down, then spin up again, etc.  As for the value of the data, that's simply not a concern. Like I said, this is a RAID 5 array (one layer of data protection) that is regularly backed up. If I put this hard drive back into production and it fails, I'm in the same situation I'm in now. I just have to replace it and rebuild the array, no harm done. If I replace it and the array fails to rebuild, I still haven't lost anything because I have all the data backed up, so I can just recreate the array, restore the backup, and the problem is solved. Obviously it's possible that I put the drive back into production and then it fails, then the array won't rebuild, then the backup will have gone corrupt. A perfect storm. But you can't live your life taking every possible measure to protect yourself from even the slightest risk. Or at the very least, the data on this drive is not valuable enough to warrant such measures.

Anyway, it's probably neither here nor there. Like I mentioned in the OP, it's probably a mechanical failure. But if something as simple as a corrupt FAT could cause similar behavior I wanted to pursue it.

Xiaou2:
Run a hard-drive test utility by the MFG of the drive.  Theres usually a short test, and a Really long test.

SNAAKE:
time to invest on a SSD drive :cheers:

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 28, 2011, 08:16:16 pm ---Careful . . . I see a veiled insult in that last post  :P

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 ;)

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 27, 2011, 06:06:40 pm ---Nope. Hitachi DEATHstar 500 GB (I know :) ).

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