I found also another bug - triggering SMART/emb with low values causes cpu utilization spiking up, games stuttering every smart/emb check. Cpu i5-10400.
But increasing to above 1000 solves this problem. I tested it with only nvme ssd.
I found on my side it is not drive's firmware, but motherboard's SATA controller, triggered by hwinfo - it starts do trash things with hdd's/ssd's.
With default settings, without hwinfo sata monitor everything is fine.
All fine when i use AIDA64 and HDD Sentinel Pro. But only hwinfo makes sata...
Yes, what i did - i disabled all HDD/SSD monitoring and this clicking sound is gone! But!
For people, who want to fix this clicking - this is SATA controller triggering and trashing HDD/SSD - this is not safe at all, as author says!
It still triggers even if you rebooted your PC, i tested on...
Yes, it happens on SATA drive.
Today i made a test on all hard drives that i have since 2002. In all drives older than 2015 there is a clicking sound. There is no clicking sound on new drives like Seagate 2DM164 (2Tb drive), but the little noisy sound can be detected, like drive is restarting...
This issue is started since version 7++, it does not happens on 7.00 and older versions. I found it happens mostly with hard drives, manufactured 10-12 years ago.
All of them are working just fine, there is no troubles using AIDA64, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro, CrystalDiskInfo and other utilities.
I...