Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?
Hi.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 08:49:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i got my new computer with a 4 GB WD Gold (WDC WD4003FRYZ-01F0DB0) and
> observe a strange behavior with a provisory Debian 10 LXDE installation.
>
> If the drive has power then i makes a plonking noise every 3 to 5
> seconds.
That amount of time looks suspiciously familiar.
Have you tried to disable drive heads parking via hdparm?
What about smartctl long test, does it show anything suspicious?
Reco
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