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Hi all, just changed the internal hard disk of my 2007 MacBook Pro 2.2 15" with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB. I didn’t notice anything on the first day but, the following day, I started hearing the (dreaded?) clicking sound from the hard drive, I have to say that they there’s no lag in responsiveness when the clicks happen and they come more regularly when the laptop is idle. I’ve read horrible accounts about clicks and damaged drives so I’m backing up on time machine like there is no tomorrow. Did anybody experienced the same? How worried should I be? Thanks!
Maybe your MBP needs a firmware update. Please check this link to see if you have the current EFI Firmware Update for your machine. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
The clicking is the search head going back and forth trying to find data. I would reformat the drive with Disk Utilities and use the “write zeros” option to map out any bad blocks. Then restore your data and if you heard any more clicking, return the drive.
Had the clicking in 2 different drives both WD and 1 lasted for another year the other one that died clicked for a few days I ran hdapm and found that it was heating up and died around 30 days later. I then went with a Fujitsu and haven’t had a problem with it since
