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

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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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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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