Click of death
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click-of-death-263-3087516
title:
Click of death
text:
Click of death is a term that had become common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals a disk drive has failed, often catastrophically. The clicking sound itself arises from the unexpected movement of the disk's read/write actuator. At startup, and during use, the disk head must move correctly and be able to confirm that it is correctly tracking data on the disk. If the head fails to move as expected or upon moving cannot track the disk surface cor
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Computing term that indicates storage failure
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
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date modified:
2023-01-20T15:15:53Z
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