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Hard disk's "clickety-click"
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I have an iBook 12", 30 Gb, 800 Mhz, 256 Mb. Recently an Apple Center changed my motherboard and hard disk because of a problem with the screen freezing. Since it's been changed - and now it works fine - I noticed that the HD makes much more noise than before, with a loud "clickety-click" while it works which the older HD didn't cause. Why is this? Do you think this could be a problem, or will become, or should I think it's normal?
Thanks!
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Maybe this will help. Look at Enhancements.
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Just wondering - is the new one a Toshiba drive? I found that Toshibas are significantly louder than e.g. IBM (how Hitachi) drives.
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I replaced the original Fujitsu with a new IBM TravelStar a month ago and I did notice that it 'clicked' regularly but I installed the 10.2.8 update last night and it does seem much quieter now.
Edited an hour later: HD still clocks...
(Last edited by engaged; Sep 23, 2003 at 09:12 AM.
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I don't actually know which HD is in my iBook right now - I'll control. Anyway, I think it can just be an hardware problem; how can it depend on software? I thought that maybe the problem regarded how the HD is attached to the shell, or something like that. I mean, you know, vibrations or echoes or... I don't know. I just hope that it's not an incremental problem. The beginning of the end :-/...
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Try using a the "APM Tuner X" utility to change the power manangement settings on your drive.
My 40GB IBM drive in my laptop would make constantly irritating noises, which were due to it parking the read/write heads (at least I think that's what they were).
Download it from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/coolmacguy/apmtunerx.dmg
When you run it, setting the slider to a higher number decreases the power management and thus the head parking/clicking noises. You'll see a little less battery life as a result.
Also, the settings aren't saved between reboots, but seem to stay between sleep/wake cycles.
Good luck, I find it a very useful utility
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Originally posted by engaged:
I replaced the original Fujitsu with a new IBM TravelStar a month ago and I did notice that it 'clicked' regularly but I installed the 10.2.8 update last night and it does seem much quieter now.
Edited an hour later: HD still clocks...
Recently, I'd had some loud "clacking"-type noises when after waking my iBook from sleep. It sounded like it could have been the standard clicking, but made more of a "clacking" sound, if that makes sense. It just didn't sound right.
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tick tock
tick tock
tick tock
this is the incessant and v.irritating noise i am currently getting from my ibook.
haven't noticed it before - it seemed to come on today after waking the machine from a sleep of several hours.
what's the deal? i'm just hoping it's one of those things that will go away if i shut down tonight and leave well alone for a few hours. 
the only other thing i did today on the ibook was download the 30 day Office Mac trial - surely no connection there?
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I think Stew's right. It's probably a Toshiba drive, which in my experience are louder than IBMs. You can identify the drive in Apple System Profiler.
Chris
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weird,
the tick tocking from the hard drive which i described actually stops if i launch Word or Powerpoint (30 day trial versions)
is the crazy ticking the hard drive counting down until the demo expires - surely not?
i'd hate to have to listen to my hard drive clicking away for a month. actually quite impressed with Office Mac - but if the first thing it does is turn my iBook into a carriage clock, i think i'll stick to appleworks.
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Guess what?
Just removed the testdrive for MS Office from my iBook.
And the clicking stopped.
someone please tell me that the full version doesn't make your mac make funny noises because i quite liked the app and am keen to get word.
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Yes, it's a Toshiba driver. I'm happy to know you've experienced the same loudness - just wanted to be sure it's normal. Japanese people do it louder 
About Office, I've been using it for nearly one year, and never experienced noise problems. I've never tried the monthly version. And... I would expect anything from MS :-/
Thanks a lot everybody!!
C.
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