1TB Toshiba External HD Clicking

Purchased my black 1TB Toshiba Canvio External Hard Drive in July, and a few days ago I heard/felt a continuous clicking. I have been more than cautious with my drive, never dropping it, never tilting it, and never unplugging it when the led was flashing. Any way I could possibly revive it? Sometimes after I unplug it, and plug it in again, there is no clicking for an hour, and my files are readable, but then it starts back up with the clicking again

Hi
You should be troubled if the HDD starts to make some strange sounds.
It could be a first sign of a HDD crash.
At the other hand my HDD clicks also but not always this happens sporadically
I could not find a reason for that but I have created some backups in order to be on the safe side.
I think you should backup the data too.

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