I just bought a Toshiba X300 8TB 7500r hard disk.
At first I used the whole disk as a partition, the noise is really intolerable.
Then I tried to use a small partition of 1TB or 2TB, the noise is much smaller.
But 4TB still produces a large noise.
Can anybody give me some hint? Why partition size affects noise level?
Thank you very much!
Update:
A more recent test shows that, the partition size may not be the key reason for the noise.
The noise is generated when the ext4 performs [ext4lazyinit]
at a speed of 5MB/s
.
After I remount the disk with init_itable=0
option, the [ext4lazyinit]
can perform at a speed about 100MB/s
, the noise is gone!