3½" PATA Western Digital Caviar SE (250MB) makes steady ticking sound when idle
- by intuited
I've started to notice a ticking sound emanating from my WD2500JB. It is not alarmingly loud. The sound seems to occur only when the drive has been idle for some time, and will cease upon (some?) disk activity. The sound has a regular, steady cadence of somewhere between about 4 and 6 ticks per second.
I'm not entirely certain that it just…