27" iMac hard drive noise

Thanks for the useful info. How would I know in the shop what kinda of HD is inside? is there any labelling on the box?
Thanks

Just got my 4th replacement iMac 27" i7 and thankfully it has a WD drive in it!

killhippie wrote:
I hrve a 21.5 Inch iMac (late 2009) with a Western Digital WD1001FALS I cannot hear the drive at all, it is very quite, yet I have heard the 27" version which sounded very loud, I was very disappointed. I was wondering if its acoustics, has the 27" iMac got maybe a greater amount of space inside for noise to be amplified so the same drives can sound so loud, I know we cannot be sure but is that possible? I am just throwing this in as I want to buy a 27" i7 for myself and pass this 21.5 on to my wife but after having a near silent iMac I am just wondering if its that simple, acoustics of the 27" is bad an amplifies the sound through the larger body. If they are all that nosey it looks like waiting for next year to see what Apple bring out otherwise.

There is a space around it that could amplify the noise. For now happy with the Green Drive. I will wait till Apple admits a fault and maybe provides an update for the firmware of the drive.

The Imac boxes only describe the size of the hard drive, not the manufacturer. You need to turn it on and run System Profiler. If you have a noisy drive, return it.

Hey, thanks for that.
i thought there might be easier way to establish the manufacturer to avoid keep driving to the store back and forth.

A Firmware Update should definitely be a feasible and possible solution for Apple. If we make more noise, will they listen?

Oh and: 45.000 views! This must be an issue.

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This is the first time I have used the forum, but felt I needed to provide my personal experience concerning the seagate 1TB hard drive issue. Originally purchased 27' imac in July of this year and will have returned three for exchange by the middle of next week due to the incessant rumbling noise from the hard drive which is highly annoying when quietly surfing the web.

I have reported this to Apple UK support on every occasion but their response is this has not been identified as an issue and I have just been unlucky! When I visited a local apple retailer and listened to a display imac, this was perfectly quiet so I am continuing with exchanging until I hopefully receive a "quiet" hard drive.

Maybe 4th time will be lucky

Hi!
I have the same problem with my i3 27 imac, I opened a post on this issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2559643&tstart=15

What you think should I do?
return back my iMac?

I just talked with Apples tec support.
They told me that this noise is normal.

I read in some forums and review about the SG hard drive and it's seems that is not a "first class" HD.
In one review they compare it to WD black (Apple using this model?) and the WD was better but this is not the issue for me, I really don't care about 1 sec more or less in the HD read / write, I care about the reliability of the HD.
Some guys from the forums I read says that the SG baracuda is low quality HD drive and SG using low quality parts from Maxtor (Made in China).

what you think about this information?

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Report the problem to Apple support and ensure this is logged as hard drive fault.

In my view you should return and ask for a replacement

Hi,
But in the replacement will also come with the SG hard drive.
Can I ask for WD hard drive? (I'm not from the US).
If they will tell me that they will replace only the hard drive should I agree?

Thanks.

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recorded this one this afternoon
http://pieter-1asfz.posterous.com/9152957

And I'm a noobie too so neither do I have any idea of its normal.
Windows computers don't make noises like these
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I have the same noise.
Apple says that it's OK/

what you think?

I just talked to SG, they say that this sound is not good bet it's not a big problem.
I take my iMac to apple store and asked for replacemant.
They need to contact me soon.

I take the computer from apple today after they say that it's good.
the noise that this HD is makink is so ANNOYING, I hope that Apple will make a software update soon to allow AAM or some thing else solve this ANNOYING problem.

Message was edited by: Avi Tzur

Your recording sounds like any normal hard drive. I have built numerous PC boxes and the hard drive all have some noise.