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

Started by"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
First post2020-07-24 20:50 +0200
Last post2020-07-25 00:50 +0200
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  Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-24 20:50 +0200
    Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-24 21:10 +0200
      Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Thomas Amm <debili@open-email.net> - 2020-07-25 00:50 +0200
    Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-24 21:10 +0200
    Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-07-24 21:20 +0200
      Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-24 21:30 +0200
        Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-24 23:40 +0200
          Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-25 00:30 +0200
          Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-25 04:40 +0200
          Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-07-25 10:40 +0200
            Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-07-25 15:40 +0200
              Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-07-25 16:30 +0200
              Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-25 16:30 +0200
                Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-07-25 17:30 +0200
                  Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-25 17:40 +0200
                Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-25 23:20 +0200
                  Update: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-08-20 13:50 +0200
                    Re: Update: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-08-20 14:20 +0200
                    Re: Update: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-20 22:10 +0200
        Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-25 11:20 +0200
          Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-07-25 11:50 +0200
          Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-25 22:40 +0200
    Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ? elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-07-25 00:50 +0200

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#225240

FromReco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Date2020-07-25 11:50 +0200
Message-ID<AwoYy-2sa-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#225238
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> > It's simple:
> > smartctl -t long /dev/sda
> 
> The short test yielded
>   Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
>   # 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        11         -
> 
> The long test is expected to end in 5.5 hours. Progress report is fewly
> entertaining because moving in steps of 10 percent:
> 
>   # smartctl -a /dev/sda | fgrep -A 1 'Self-test execution status' ; date
>   Self-test execution status:      ( 246) Self-test routine in progress...
>                                           60% of test remaining.
>   Sat 25 Jul 2020 10:57:53 AM CEST

It's all other lines that are interesting here.
I.e. 'Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds' section.

Reco

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#225268

FromDavid Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Date2020-07-25 22:40 +0200
Message-ID<Awz7z-6u-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#225238
On 2020-07-25 02:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> David Christensen wrote:
>> Click of death.
> 
> At least this is the reality which i will present to the disk vendor
> while negotiating about replacement.
> 
> But personally i still have doubts that it is this particular problem.
> The knocking is not "Click-click-click" as described in the web, but
> rather "Pok" ... 3 or 4 seconds ... "Pok" ...

That description sounds similar enough to what I heard from my failing 
HDD's.  Their sound was a metal-on-metal "click".  Your drive, being 
"enterprise", may have a shock absorber that muffles the sound.


David

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#225228

Fromelvis <elvis@dogonfire.com>
Date2020-07-25 00:50 +0200
Message-ID<AweFP-4As-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#225211
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
>
-- 
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.

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