![]() ![]() But since you cant see and open your hard drive as usual, we need to do some fixes in Disk Utility. ![]() If the external hard drive can be found in Disk Utility, it means that your external hard drive is detected by your Mac. Case 1: The external drive shows up in Disk Utility but not mounted. If any drive starts clicking within a year it is 99% likely faulty or got damaged somehow(or in WD's case, you bought the wrong drive for your system). The external hard drive doesnt show up in Disk Utility. Now, if you are talking about the OLDER Barracuda's.yes those were pieces of crap(as were alot of drives back then) but they are a much higher quality drive now, mostly due to changes in tech.īarracuda's are very good drives these days, I would say at least on-par with WD's Blue series although Blue's are about the same price so it's a coin-toss to who you want to deal with when it dies. HDD's can get damaged during shipping very easily or improper-care of the drive can also reduce it's life-span so getting one drive that doesn't live as long as you hoped it would does not make them all bad, you just got burned by luck. Not saying yours will do the same, but I would of bought a WD not a Seagate HDD and I will never recommend them to anyone.If you got WD drive and it started clicking would you be making the same recommendation? ![]() I sold that one on eBay and got a Western Digital HDD. So I decided to return it, paid the shipping and they sent me a new one for free. my experience from Seagate was that my 1TB HDD started "clicking" a few months before the warranty was up (1 year I think). He means it may die or start showing signs it will die.
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