This sounds like a power supply issue. In my experience you get ticking from 2.5" external drives when the power supply isn't quite up to it. I always had to use a powered USB hub to feed 4TB drives from my Pi 4B (I now used a Celeron box with my 4TB drive), as the stock Pi supply wasn't quite able to provide enough power.
I was able to find my Chromebook charger which is 1.4A and that seems to work. I will get a higher rated power brick.
Thanks for your help.
The WD Elements 4TB external drive will have its own power adapter, simply use it.
Lots of (RPi) power adapters are simply not capable of their advertised potential.
Sorry I should have stated this a portable. If it was a 3.5" I don't think it could even spin the drive up off of USB power.
Hi All,
At first I thought I had a failing external drive as it starting clicking and being all around sluggish in 9.2.8 on my Raspberry Pi 4. I took the drive and put it in my PC, using HDD Sentinel the drive is 100% with no reallocated sectors. I took the drive and fired up my old 3b and no issues. The only difference is the power brick and cable. I'm waiting on a microUSB to USB C converter but for now I have an Anker USB type C cable going into a iPad wall charger. So it appears that it's something with the 4 build or hardware related.. I also tried both USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and getting the same issue. Has anyone seen this issue?
Thanks
