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I have taken over a Mac Pro which has four drives in it and one of them - I assume - has started being VERY noisy. How may I determine which one is disturbing my [almost] silence?
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Pull one drive, and boot from optical disk. See if the noise goes away. Repeat as needed until you hit upon the noisy one.
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Originally Posted by reader50 
Pull one drive, and boot from optical disk. See if the noise goes away. Repeat as needed until you hit upon the noisy one.
That plan is crazy enough to work 
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Any way of switching each drive off in turn rather than open it up?
(Last edited by Morbiato; Aug 24, 2007 at 11:19 AM.
(Reason:Spelling mistake!))
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Nope, there's no on off switch on the drives. Pulling them is the only option
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Can't you unmount them in Disk Utility?
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I was going to suggest that, pheonixash, but if it's a hardware issue with the drive then having it powered on at all will probably cause it to exhibit that symptom.
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Well you could save one reboot by doing a binary search:
pull 2 drives first, then you have it narrowed down to 2, then pull one of those.
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