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Oh my God that was scary (click of death faked?)

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nstgc:
So I "fuck it" finally and decided to just us that crap'tastic Seagate made F4 and had put my other 2TB drive in along with this new one. I turn on the power...click of death. No shock there right, it has to be a DOA Seagate. I disconnect it so I can at  least see what on the existing drive and force fsck it. My heart beat jumped to new highs as the CoD returned. I panic run around like an idiot before collapsing on the floor -- normal reaction (right?). I calm down enough to chant "panicking solves nothing" and try to put it back in my external enclosure where it was last time it worked. I force fsck the drive and everything seems okay. I'll be copying over those files now.

That said, what the fuck was that about?!

[edit] Oh I should also mention that all the SMART data checks out just fine.

[edit] It seems as if in my great relief I failed to properly retell my little story. the drive that was screwing up is an ordinary Spinmaster F2 manufactured by Samsung. It was not initially meant for external enclosures. The Drive I thought was DOA was the new Spinmaster F4 manufactured by Seagate. I thought it was DOA, but in reality it was the old Samsung drive.

kitamesume:
you lost me there, how about wiring the drive directly into your motherboard and psu?

nstgc:
I did. When the drive was actually in my computer connected to the motherboard, and PSU, I got the click of death. I then put it back in the external enclosure and it works fine again.

[edit] I'm thinking that the Marvel controller on my MB and my HDD don't get along.

Clannad_92:
why is there click sound in hdd?
i mean loud click...is it normal?

btw the hdd mention is in portable mode...

nstgc:
Clicking. As in the actuator head is slamming against a hard stopper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death

Portable mode? Why would it be in portable mode? I never put it in any particular mode ever. Intentionally I used it was an internal drive, then I got scared that I'd break the power connector and put it in an external enclosure. For fear of what the enclosure would do to my poor old drive I put it back in the case. When I powered on I was getting a click of death.

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