Hi all,

I have a WD5000KS-00MNB0 that just failed me, on it I have a bunch of disposable data but also 44GB of personal photos and few videos too. I know i have to do backups and I even prepared a raid5 NAS ... but its still sleeping in the basement.

I have the slow click-click-click then shutdown problem I've read a lot here. It had no shock, no power surge, good ventilation, it was temperature monitored and rarely went over 45°. It was running 24/24 since 18 months, then windows started to be very slow and i had MFT errors, I think you know the story.

I tried to hook it to another computer, it's a data disk with no system. I was able to see the two partitions, but first one was corrupted and slowed the computer a lot, i managed to disable it and was able to start backuping my important files, but few minutes later the disk shutdown definitively. I tried hooking it with USB to sata cable but it's powering, click, click, click and shutdown. I tried to froze it as it allowed me to backup a failing drive once but no luck this time.

I followed this very interesting article :