Daniel Dalton <[email protected]> writes:

> Yeah... I can actually hear the drive doing lots of groaning as
> gdm/gnome fires up...

That still happens?  On spinning metal that *isn't* sick?
How old are the disks, and when was the last time you ran a SMART
self-test on them?

          map smartctl -t short    -- /dev/sd[abc]    # or long
    watch map smartctl -l selftest -- /dev/sd[abc]

Note that Seagate controllers report in-progress self-tests; WDs do not
report a test until it has finished/failed/aborted.

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