https://community.wd.com/t/constant-annoying-ticking-on-wd-black-4tb/224137
Boy it...sure is...a thing that these drives do now, huh.
That's...that's a great feature there, WD. What the absolute heck. My desktop sounds like a slightly wonky mechanical clock.
(Or indeed like it is suffering horrible head-keeps-parking-and-retrying-from-failed-seek woes. But apparently not.)