On 25/7/20 4:49 am, 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. 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. Did others here recently purchase a WD Gold disk and hear similar periodic single knocks. I see a matching report in https://community.wd.com/t/hard-drive-idle-sounds/199915 but cannot judge whether it was finally accepted as hardware damage.ou
Have you tried a different distro such as a live cd?
Have a nice day :) Thomas
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