Why does my netbook's hard drive keep thumping?

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Outsider V.2015-03-09 16:45:51

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Outsider V., 2015-03-09 16:45:51

The netbook is not yet a week old, before that I used it in a relatively noisy environment, now I worked in a quiet room and discovered a strange phenomenon.
Everyone knows the characteristic sound of HDD activity - something like a relatively quiet grinding / buzzing / creaking.
So, my Lenovo E10-30 creates such single creaks in idle time, with an interval of about 4-5 seconds, and there is no strict periodicity - sometimes the delay can be up to 9 seconds, sometimes there are two taps in a row (I will call it that), but in basically one tapping every one and a half seconds. These sounds are also accompanied by flashing of the HDD light. In this case, in the performance manager, the load on the disk may be zero. I have even disabled the paging file (before that, the system constantly communicated with it).
There is no sound only until Windows is loaded - then in idle time it is constantly repeated, including in safe mode.
The disk is in good condition, the computer does not hang, SMART is clean.
Does anyone have any idea what the tapping might be?
Unfortunately, I can not record - there is no sensitive microphone. But in a quiet room, this sound is not bad so annoying.

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Dmitry Skrylnikov, 2015-03-09
@Audiophile

well, if at the same time the light is on, then it’s probably working at that time, maybe the head knocks like this when parking, read it on the wiki https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%91%D1% 81%D...

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SCHWEJK, 2015-03-09
@SCHWEJK

To outsiders V., it looks like such an algorithm for the operation of a laptop screw. It has a short timeout before head parking. This increases the resistance to impacts - there is a higher chance that the blow will hit at the moment when the head does not hover over the pancake and cannot touch it. This is the first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice to see the smart settings. Two screenshots, in AIDA64, for example. The first and the second, made in an hour.

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Mikhail Zhilin, 2015-07-09
@Merdue

This shnyaga from WD is called Time Parking! On some HDDs, this calibration does not turn off with a certain passage of time at a certain disk temperature, the head is recalibrated with parking in the packing zone on a special ramp inside the disk! The easiest var is to change the hard drive or replace it under warranty!