I'm asking for suggestions to repurpose an external 4TB showing early signs of failure.
Until this weekend it was my primary backup drive. I was running a defrag and it started some clicking. The clicking is not constant.
It doesn't seem to be showing any read errors. I did copy the entire drive to a new 4TB disk, which will now be my primary backup drive.
My main PC has about 400GB data. I'm retired now, so it's mainly used for hobbyist stuff--and I actually mainly use a Linux PC...
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Until this weekend it was my primary backup drive. I was running a defrag and it started some clicking. The clicking is not constant.
It doesn't seem to be showing any read errors. I did copy the entire drive to a new 4TB disk, which will now be my primary backup drive.
My main PC has about 400GB data. I'm retired now, so it's mainly used for hobbyist stuff--and I actually mainly use a Linux PC...
Read more