[Woodster_X]

Hi I bought a new 24" 3.06ghz iMac recently and am exremely happy with it. The only thing I have a slight worry about is the hard drive as it seems to be very ticky sounding when accessing data, more so than I have experienced with hard drives in the past.

It's not the the noise itself that bothers me, more that it may be a symptom of a faulty drive pehaps?

[Kenneth]

Which brand of hard drive does it ship with? I heard that Apple uses Hitachi hard drive on the current iMac. Mine has a Western Digital hard drive and couldn't hear any noise.

[Eriamjh]

Call Apple and see what they say. It's obviously still under warranty.

[solofx7]

I got the same noise. it seemed to stop after a while.