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Subject: Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?
From: "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans () gmail ! com>
Date: 2020-07-24 22:40:29
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rhkramer@gmail.com wrote on 7/24/20 4:28 PM:
> On Friday, July 24, 2020 05:35:34 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> David Christensen wrote:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
>>
>> But that's a different technology (and 20 years ago).
>
> You might not have read the entire article.
>
Having experienced this phenomenon multiple times on both Zip disks (!) and
hard drives, 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 recently had a hard drive stay alive and usable for a
month or so after starting to click, but it did eventually permanently fail.
All the other drives failed much more quickly than that.
Reco wrote on 7/24/20 1:14 PM:
> What about smartctl long test, does it show anything suspicious?
Definitely you should try that, possibly multiple times if it happens to pass
the first time. Frankly, I wouldn't trust the drive in any case -- if for some
reason I *had* to continue to use it, I'd definitely put it in a RAID array of
some kind, with a spare available to replace it at short notice.
Doc
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