Seagate ST31000340AS drives making click-clunk sounds

I had a similar problem when I installed the second seagate drive into my 2150. I too did not have any reported issues with the drive until at one point follwing power-up - Frontview reported the drive as dead. In my humble opinion any abnormal noise from the drives suggests a problem - unless there is some resonance between the HDD and the readyNAS casing, although unlikely - it may not show up immediately but it will at some point terminate. I suggest replacing the drives as soon as possible. Its a pain having to re-sync the drives when one fails but least you have you data intact.


It does amaze me how the build standard of HDD's appears to have gone down the Pan of late - probably manufactures setting up new operations in for off places. Older systems I have owned have hard drives which in effect have lasted the life of my computers - of late this appear to have dropped to about 6 months. At work they are falling like flies too - basically at a rate of 1/week !!