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

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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.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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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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