Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 2020-07-24 12:14, Reco wrote:
> 	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

Does the drive make the same noise when the computer is running other 
operating systems, such as Windows?


David