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I have Windows 10. Main drive is an SSD. I have a Western Digital mechanical drive in there as a data drive holding pics and music and things. I do not have drive indexing or defrag enabled for that second drive. But I hear it working. Not constantly, but rhythmically in a pattern. It activates for one second every 4 seconds like a metronome. Driving me INSANE.

I used the perfmon.exe /res command and found plenty of processing using my primary SSD drive, but nothing is using my secondary drive.

I didn't have this issue before reinstalling Windows 10 just the other day. I also don't have any system folders pointing to the second hard drive for any purposes so I'm really at a loss here.

Any ideas?
 
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I had this happen on a Samsung drive when I updated to Windows 10, try this:

- Start Crystaldiskinfo
- Go to Function again -> Advanced feature -> AAM/APM Control
- Select the hard drive that is making the random clicking noise
- Under APM, click on Enable and drag the slider to the far Right (for Performance - FEh)

Note: I've read online that other people with 5400RPM drives prefer setting this to Disabled to completely disable hard drive head parking, so disabling it all together might work as well. I chose performance as I've read online that disabling APM all together will affect the performance of the drive, but performance also removed the clicking noise for me, and since it's now fixed I won't be messing around with other settings.

- Go to Function -> Advanced Feature -> Check Auto AAM/APM Adaption so the APM settings are automatically applied when Crystaldiskinfo starts
- Now set Crystaldiskinfo to auto-start with Windows
- Function -> Startup
- Restart your PC
 
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Originally Posted by Hindsight View Post

Thanks guys. Wow small world Dimensive: I am in Alpharetta/Milton area as well.

I downloaded CrystalDiskInfo and went into the menu option you mentioned but the APM sections "enabled" button is greyed out and can't be clicked.
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Another Tater in the house!

Do you have the latest Intel Rapid Storage Drivers installed?
 
#9 ·
Alright, if the drive continues to click, I would install the latest Intel RST driver and try my fix again. Seems when version 13+ is installed, APM is enabled in CrystalDisk Info. That click scared me half to death when I first encountered it.
 
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