I have a couple weeks old My Book 4TB (the newer SmartWare edition) that I’ve just backed up all my stuff into.
I’ve however noticed some oddities with it that I am uncertain are normal.
Firstly, when I originally used it standing vertically, whenever it was actively working, the drive would generate strong, audible vibrations at a consistent pulse (vrrrr…brm, vrrrrr…brm and so on). I expect it’s normal for a drive to be louder when active, but this vibration is stronger than expected.
Today I placed it horizontally and no longer observed this phenomenon, but a while ago the drive clicked twice and stopped responding.
I attempted to reconnect the data cable, but it did not reappear in Windows.
A restart of Windows brought the drive back and it appeared to work normally afterwards.
However it noticeably clicked twice whenever spinning up. I verified this by taking the drive to a quiet room and plugging it into power. It spins up normally, then I hear it clicking twice after it has spun up. Is this normal?
Will I have to replace the drive? My other hard disk appears to be faulty and all my back ups are on this drive.