in the process of upgrading laptop and have swapped a wd scorpio blue 160gb for the 500gb,the drive works perfectly but has quite a loud clicking noise,wondering if i should replace,any advice much appreciated. :?
his dudeness said:thanks for the reply,has been running a couple of days,bought from amazon so think ill return for a replacement,for peace of mind as much as anything,the old drive didnt make this sound.
MajorFubar said:I wonder what the failure rate is on modern drives? I read donkeys years ago that it was quite high - something like in excess of 70% or thereabouts, before they even left the factories - and that's one reason why they were really expensive. They're cheap as chips these days so among other things they must've got the failure-rate down.