I hate hearing the "click of death"

[hobbit709]

Just finishing refurbishing a dead computer-cpu and mobo dead.
Got new board and cpu, started installing Windows 7 and just as it was finishing the hard drive started clicking. Drive test said it was good but it was clicking.
Took it out and started over with new drive-no clicks.

[JBoy]

1. I recently experienced the silence and darkness

of the "tablet brick".

Woke up, unplugged my tablet from the charger and it would not turn on. Power off, hard reset, nothing would work. It was "bricked".

Out of warranty, the only thing I could do was take off the back and make sure nothing had become disconnected. Nothing to diagnose, nothing to replace, except the whole tablet itself.

It was a Nexus 7. Replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. Happy so far. Process to get my paid apps restored through the Google Play Store was easy. Just log in and download them again.

[IDemo]

2. The answer to HDD clicks and other issues:

[Angleae]

3. Unfortunately they are far too expensive for their size.

If you can do with under 512GB it might be doable (if you consider $300-400 doable), but if you need a couple TB you're looking at $1000 easily. You can get a standard 2TB HDD for under $100.

[hobbit709]

4. difference in cost $50 vs $500

Can't sell a refurbished computer for under $300 with a $500 drive in it. And SSDs have other limitations in some apps.