Has anyone experienced his or her hard drive making more noise when it is idling? I recently replaced the hard drive on my iMac DV (400Mhz G3, Panther) with a new Seagate 7200 rpm, 120 GB drive that is generally very quiet.
The problem is that the new drive will buzz and make a rocking sound if there have been no reads or writes to it for 40 seconds or so. The buzzing goes away as soon as there is any disk activity and returns as soon as 40 seconds go by without any activity. This is very repeatable and I can see it in the Activity Monitor. The buzzing would probably not be so annoying accept that the machine is otherwise so quiet.
After consulting Seagate, I replaced the drive but the new one does the same thing. It’s driving me crazy for I have to constantly click on something that isn't already cached in its 8MB buffer to cause disk activity to get it to stop.
Any suggestions?
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