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Re: First time a hard drive dies on me... But, wait! - pdq - 07-06-2016

I'm not sure I'd be planning on a long-time continued use of a clicking hard drive that didn't mount, even if it is functioning now.

Does it have a S.M.A.R.T status in Disk Utility?


Re: First time a hard drive dies on me... But, wait! - Onamuji - 07-07-2016

Yeah. Clicking is bad.

Run SMART Utility and install the SAT driver to check the status of externals.