On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:25:41 -0500
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
However, while writing this email in mutt (which involves some IO),
the fan ended running, and the screeching is back and continues on even though the fan
does not appear to be running.
Earlier in this thread didn't you (or someone) mention the "normal"
rattling noise when doing disk I/O? If that is normal, then the disk
isn't an SSD drive - they don't make any noise at all. Screeching is
normal for a failing spinning disk.