Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> If the drive has power then i makes a plonking noise every 3 to 5
> seconds. The plonk is louder when Debian runs, but can also be
> heard (and felt by direct finger contact with the disk) if only EFI
> is running. The sound is not really loud but well hearable when the
> room is silent.
>
> I began hearing it after about two hours of operating the computer.
> My hardware provider reports about two installation attempts. XFCE
> excluded him from using the screen after successful installation.
> (He's a SuSE/KDE user.) So he installed again with LXDE.
> During those (maybe 4 hours) he did not notice this sound.
Drives should not make unexpected noises. Every time I've
noticed an odd noise from a drive, it meant something bad.
Request a replacement under warranty.
-dsr-
Reply to: