To the owners of this drive, is there a quick series of clicks (lasts only a second or two) with each system start-up and then silent operation afterwards?
1131116
I haven't noticed any "clicks". When I first boot the PC, you can definitely hear the drive power up and start to spin ,but no clicking.
1131117
I can hear the clicks on mine if the ambient noise level is low. The clicks are quite subdued. I have 18 of these in service.
57958
Yes there is (sort of). There is a flashing red light whenever there is some activity such as transferring files. Connecting the thumb drive is considered an activity so the red light flashes for a few seconds. There is no light if there is no activity. By the way, this is a wonderful thumb drive (really fast USB 3.0).
1773042
No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
817426
Looks like the drive is set up to go to "sleep" after a period of time. That affects a lot of operations, and there's no direct fix for it.
42495
I've had mine ever since they came out early on, and Its has been turned on ever since I purchased it. Through out my years of experience, turning the hard drives off/on is more harm full than just leaving it on. I would say that my WD My Book 2TB has been on since I originally plugged it up. Do not by Seagate or Matrox. WD never gives up on me or at work. However, connect it up to a UPS black out , power strikes, and brown outs will hurt the drive worse than anything else you can allow to happen. Good Luck
1706933
You would push in the button "before" boot up/power on. I use this item for cloning one hd to another, or just booting up from a different drive.
897449
No, I have had it over a year now and it works fine. You do understand that each button controls a separate hard drive. If you push two buttons, only one will boot your computer and the other one will just run. Just remember to shut your computer down before you restart a different drive.
1230016
I'm pretty excited about this laptop! I just hope I don't have the same HDD issues as I'm having with the UL30Vt-X1, which I'm returning since it's defective. I've had my computer either stall or force a restart due to the HDD clicking repeatedly. This would happen on it's own, or due to a small jostle. It's very very annoying!
730633
Not sure if I understand the question but there is an on off switch. I have 7 external drives and they're all off unless I'm using them.
501858
That usually depends on the BIOS/OS... this did not seem to stop spinning with Win 8.1, but then, I only use it for system back ups.
621569
I have mine connected to the home network for the entire family to use for back up storage, from how it behaves - I can only assume it is not spinning when there is now pending activity. Initial access time is way longer then once you have the drive directory open; and on occasion despite having the drive mapped to the desktop, the auto backup software I use will stop and alert that the selected destination for the backup is not available - which I then resolve by opening the directory manually (a bit of a delay) then everything is happy again. but the aproduct info doesn't mention that specifically. It also appears to take a while to initially gain access to the drive from outside the home network which sort of reinforces my thinking that it shuts down when ot being actively polled from somewhere on the network
1265525
Ok did you know if the hard drive is working, for example rotating, can you hear it or feel any vibration or click inside?? Or you tried to put another hard drive inside the same enclosure?? let me know to help you
272470
It isn't. You must turn the switch from "off" to "on" and wait about ten seconds for the actual recording to start. The drive will show it's started recording when it glows blue.
920342
No clicking, it's a smooth turn. In Windows 7 it was plug and play on two computers, I don't know about any other OS.
710183
Sorry, but the one I purchased just want out of its warranty and it died on me 1 week later. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRIVE FOR IMPORTANT DATA.When I now plug it in, all I hear is a click, click, click, so it is dead. I will never purchase another one of these!
981991
You should not have to leave it on for a day. Just follow the directions, making sure that you have the source and target drives in the appropriate slots and seated properly. Then press the power button. Next, press and hold dock/copy button for 3 seconds or so. the LED should turn from blue to red. Then press the start button and the led will flash in a pink color. As the duplication process continues, the status bar, 4 segments, should start to show the progress of the duplication. I have a lot of data on my HD so it usually takes 4 hrs to complete the process. If these are the guidelines that you are following, the you may have a defective unit. I hope this helps you. You should not have to leave it on for a day. Just follow the directions, making sure that you have the source and target drives in the appropriate slots and seated properly. Then press the power button. Next, press and hold dock/copy button for 3 seconds or so. the LED should turn from blue to red. Then press the start button and the led will flash in a pink color. As the duplication process continues, the status bar, 4 segments, should start to show the progress of the duplication. I have a lot of data on my HD so it usually takes 4 hrs to complete the process. If these are the guidelines... » Read More You should not have to leave it on for a day. Just follow the directions, making sure that you have the source and target drives in the appropriate slots and seated properly. Then press the power button. Next, press and hold dock/copy button for 3 seconds or so. the LED should turn from blue to red. Then press the start button and the led will flash in a pink color. As the duplication process continues, the status bar, 4 segments, should start to show the progress of the duplication. I have a lot of data on my HD so it usually takes 4 hrs to complete the process. If these are the guidelines that you are following, the you may have a defective unit. I hope this helps you. « Show Less
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No. It is one of the quietest computers I've come across. But (there;s always a but) at this time it will not do a restart (requires a shutdown) if there is a USB drive connected. It will hang. I have been told there is a BIOS update coming by the end of March to address this. Other than that it's been an excellent computer.