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

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

i quoted smartctl:
> >   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always -       18
> >   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always -       19
> >  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always -       18
> > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always -       19
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always -       19

Reco wrote:
> The most interesting part of that output is here.
> Once per hour on average drive performs head parking,

The power cycles were intentional. The machine was rebooted several times
yesterday for various reasons.

(I wonder why yours reports 57 with Power_Cycle_Count but only 35 with
 Power-Off_Retract_Count.)


> which cannot explain what you're seeing.

Yeah. We'd need something that happened at least during the last 12 hours
of operation at least 900 times per hour.

I still did not find my loudspeakers to listen to the wikipedia audio
file whether it indeed plays a sedately periodic and somewhat thud-like
sound.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas