[jaysun]

Please, everyone, place you ear next to where the hard drive is and listen carefully- do you hear a small high pitched sound coming from it?

I don't remember hearing this sound when
I first got the machine (last month). I'm trying to figure out how normal this is.

...Or, is your iBook 100% silent?

[Sage]

I hear it.

[mdc]

i hear it

[x user]

That high-pitch sound is actually your PROCESSOR working.

[kybernaut]

Originally posted by jaysun:

...Or, is your iBook 100% silent?

No existing HD is 100% silent. It hardly can't... there are moving parts inside of it.

But there are rather annoying ones (my Toshiba 15 GB was). My Fujitsu 2030AT ist almost unhearable.

kybernaut

[megus]

My old iBook SE 466 drive started out like this after a year. It got worse and finally I took it apart and exchanged the drive.

Now it's quiet again, which is a good thing, as it has been retired to a place beside the TV for dvd- and divx-playback.

I think it has to do with the drive getting old, and there's not much you can do about it.

//megus