Update
The Transmission problem may have been caused by my WD HDD.
Apparently WD screwed up the firmware.
Some of the symptoms seem similar to my problem.
Here are some links about the WD problem:
WD Caviar Green HDDs Suffer from a Critical Design Flaw
Once again, thanks for your email and comment, Jordan.
Sorry poor phrasing by me.
The external HDD (EXT format) did NOT buzz (the EXT formatted drive has NEVER
made any strange noises).
I'm not sure if both internal HDD were buzzing, but there was a continuous
high-pitched buzzing from my PC
Peter,
I wish I had a more helpful answer to give you, but all of this sounds
consistent with my previous comments --
(1) Linux's NTFS drivers do not play nicely with high volumes of random
disk reads and writes, such as those generated by p2p applications. You
may want to use a different
Thanks for taking an interest in my problem, Jordan.
I have never noticed any weird behaviour in either of my Windows OS sessions.
Ubuntu behaves exactly the same as Windows (except in the situation that I
previously described).
I've never noticed it during any other Ubuntu activities.
I
Wait, I don't understand what you're saying. All three drives buzzed and
thrashed?
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Internal HDD thrashing when using Transmission
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There are a couple of possible reasons for this that I can think of. The
primary one is that Linux's NTFS drivers do not play particularly well
with p2p, as described at
Thanks for your email and comment, Jordan.
I'll have to wait for my Linux Expert friend to help me (I'm going to
be busy for the next few days anyway).
I forgot to mention in the previous report that the drive buzzed for
about 5 - 10 seconds every minute (a repeating cycle).
I tried using 3
