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Clicking External Hard Drive
Recently i obtained a blank 10TB external hard drive and when i plugged it in it made a clicking sound. I thought there must be some way to fix it so i googled how to fix it and according to some...
A repeated clicking noise often indicates a hardware failure, especially with the drive's read/write heads or motor. This sound is sometimes called the "click of death" in the storage world, and it usually means the drive's internal components are failing or have failed.