Q: noisy hard drive 2013 macbook pro
I won't go into all the details as this macbook (purchased new from Apple in 2015) has had various issues from new & i'm still having an ongoing struggle with Apple to get them to repair or replace it etc. However:
one side issue (from the main problems) was that the hard drive was always noisy - the sound was a bit like the crunching, grinding sound of a failing drive but also slightly different so it wasn't that. I have been told be Apple & the various Apple engineers that have looked at the macbook for its other issues that the noisy hard drive was either 'normal' (not true as i've never come across a macbook this loud & I work in the arts where more or less everyone has one !) or that simply some hard drives are noisier than others. now:
1) Apple's reputation in music & the arts was partly built on the fact this its generally a much quieter machine than a pc laptop. They don't seem to be concerned about that now.
2) the macbook recently went in for another repair - this time a logic board replacement. While it was in I requested that I was allowed to remove the hard drive & use it in an enclosure with an older macbook as I had some important projects to work on. Whilst it was in the enclosure it was as quiet as it could be. This therefore proves that there is some other reason why, when in the new macbook pro, it sounds noisy. Does anyone have any ideas why that might be ? is it a design issue with how the drive sits in the machine, or more likely to be some software interaction issue. I did see a post elsewhere that claimed Apple were deliberately configuring OS to not favour spinning drives.
thanks.
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 19, 2016 1:44 AM