Hard drive clicking - Satellite-U940-100

Hi people,

I bought a new computer laptop just 5 days back and I hear a noise clicking a few seconds apart. Here's what it looks like: [https://soundcloud.com/user506186265/toshiba-u940-clicking-sound]

Can someone help me diagnose the sound, what is it and why it is happening?

In this case every hour and is troubling in a quiet environment. Because I intend to keep the laptop for more than a few years I'm afraid that the hard drive won't be able to very soon. If I can't solve this properly before November 20, 2013 I intend to return to the where I bought the laptop.

Thanks for your help!

I agree with Timox
The sound seems to create a HARD drive head during the read/write of data from the hard drive.
This is nothing unusual. As mentioned by Timox; some HARD drive are stronger, some are quieter.

In case you want to change the HARD drive in the future: I recommend you choose an SSD.
It s much faster and SSD drives don't produce sounds

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