Thomas Schmitt wrote: > 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.
Drives should not make unexpected noises. Every time I've noticed an odd noise from a drive, it meant something bad. Request a replacement under warranty. -dsr-
