Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > You might not have read the entire [Click_of_death] article.
Indeed. Now i need to search my old loudspeakers in order to compare the sound file on Wikipedia with the disk's sound. D. R. Evans wrote: > I can say that my experience (YMMV) is that 100% of the drives > that exhibit this phenomenon have failed sometime not long after the > phenomenon began I will try to get it exchanged. Hopefully the hearable activity without any operating system running is reason enough. Will see next week. Thomas Amm wrote: > I'd backup my data before trying anything else There are no valuable data on it yet. I used "shred" to write two files of 100 GB each. Knocking continues while the drive writes 180 MB/s and while it reads at 240 MB/s. The knock is a bit louder than the normal working sounds of moving heads. (I should build up a tree of many files with scattered content to hear it being truely busy. For now it makes no other unusual noises.) 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" ... 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 The disk is doing its klonkwork reliably. But today the rythm seems to tend more towards 1 beat per 4 seconds. Yesterday it was more like 1/3 bps. Have a nice day :) Thomas