It is possible that Advanced Power Management feature of your hard drive is to blame. Try to disable it with "hdparm" and those noises should not happen again. $ sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/path/to/your/hdd
On 19.09.2017 14:53, Tibor Mate wrote: > Hello dear support, > > i love debian but since Stretch i have this problem: using laptop > there is a thin - mosquito-like - noise from HDD which immediately > stop when i mount a partition. Then the noise stop BUT after cca 2-3 > minutes starts again and stop just when i unmount the partition. But > then again start after 2-3 minutes so it is terrible circle and to use > and work on this system can not. On windows no problem, on older > debian distros no problem. Have you any idea with it (some deb package > that can do it). Thanks. Tibor