I've just bought a new 60GB Travelstar to replace the old 30GB Travelstar in my laptop. The 30GB had started to make the loud click noise a lot more often than it used to so I felt it was a bad idea trusting it. All of the SMART attributes are fine and running the internal self test passes. Running DFT on it also gives it the all clear.

However, my new 60GB drive makes a different noise! Everytime the drive is idle it starts to make a continual tick, tick, tick noise after a few minutes until something accesses the drive. And then it will be fine until the next time. Anybody know if this is normal or not? All the SMART and DFT checks on the drive also pass without any problems.

I think I should stay clear of Travelstar drives in the future

- Trevor