I just picked up a 27" iMac with the 1 T HD. I can hear the hard drive any time the computer is "working". Took the first one back to the Apple store and exchanged it, thinking I had a defective machine. The replacement makes the same noise.
Anyone else having this issue? Are these things supposed to be this noisy?
....must be a sound care issue? I muted my sound, and haven't heard it since. Have to bring my computer in anyways, just noticed a pixel burnt out on the screen. *****!
Nicholas L. Eby wrote:
Its like click......... click click? Is this the issues everyone else is having?
That's definitely not the sound mine makes - that really does sound like a fault. Mine just sounds like a hardrive from the 90's, disappointing but not scary!
Hi dieseL !
I have exactly the same hard drive noise like you.
It`s meanwhile the second iMAc "27 i got within two weeks.
Trying to see if that noise is normal i was in a apple store today.
All 27 " iMacs in the shop were absolutly quiet. No harddrive noise, no fan-noise. QUIET.... being back from store i ordered the third exchange-device now.
Hope the next one will be better . My first and second devices had an seagate hdd and were built in week 22-25.
If you could post your result of the next iMac I'd be ever so grateful - I really want to get this dealt with if it's a problem. I've spent a long time setting this Mac up, I would prefer to restart that now than later on.
Your click noise is not the noise I have on my Seagate, I have the low rumble which is sadly just the lack of AMM and the sound of the drive seeking, but personaly I would get the click checked out.
I stand corrected, but as I said for the rumble seek noise I would not bother having my hard drive taken out of a perfectly good brand new iMac when nothing is wrong with the drive, that's a bit to ocd for me, and I have ocd myself! Each to their own though 🙂
The rumble is, I believe Seagate refused to buy a licence from the patent holder and
has therefore not been able to include acoustic management into
is newer drives. Clicking isn't normal unless its when the heads park when it spins down. A hard drive click fault sounds like this...
Fair enough if it's Seagate's issue. Is there any way I can swap out my HDD for another without breaking my warranty? Hand it to Apple? I don't mind paying to be honest, I'd rather that than putting my fist through the screen on a quiet, late night.
An iPhone with a laughable antenna and an iMac which sounds like a muffled moped. Think Different.
A few weeks ago I had my hard drive replaced on my 2.4 Core Duo 2007 iMac 24, I believe I had a Western Digital and it got replaced with a Hitachi HDT721032SLA380.
The western digital was dead quiet but died after a few years, and the new Hitachi is really loud and does the cracking "cric crack cric" sound when the disk is being accessed and might also be a bit slow.
Any ideas?, are there any acoustic management tools or firmware we can run to fix this?
Honestly I can't wait to get rid of spinning hard drives and for solid state ones to become cheaper, it is the biggest bottleneck in computing speed today.
Same happened to me. new iMac 27.... expensive... excited and all of a sudden this noise coming from the inside. I called them within the first 14 days and they said it is only the fan. I called again and they say press ctrl
cmnd+pr. Three times they asked me to do the same.
For weeks they said it is only the fan. I insisted. Eventually they said I need to get it back to the store (taxi £20) I said enough! so they sent someone to take it from my place (couldn't you say this from the beginning, it is a 27 mac after all).
A whole week passed by, I called and they said it was repaired, they just want to keep it in there for few more days to check it is all right. A LIE!!!
I called after 2 days and someone else said the new part just arrived.
They should have replaced the computer, I paid almost £2000 and need to go through weeks of frustration and misery, missing the deadline for my degree show project.
Same happened to me. new iMac 27.... expensive... excited and all of a sudden this noise coming from the inside. I called them within the first 14 days and they said it is only the fan. I called again and they say press ctrl
cmnd+pr. Three times they asked me to do the same.
For weeks they said it is only the fan. I insisted. Eventually they said I need to get it back to the store (taxi £20) I said enough! so they sent someone to take it from my place (couldn't you say this from the beginning, it is a 27 mac after all).
A whole week passed by, I called and they said it was repaired, they just want to keep it in there for few more days to check it is all right. A LIE!!!
I called after 2 days and someone else said the new part just arrived.
They should have replaced the computer, I paid almost £2000 and need to go through weeks of frustration and misery, missing the deadline for my degree show project.
Same happened to me. new iMac 27.... expensive... excited and all of a sudden this noise coming from the inside. I called them within the first 14 days and they said it is only the fan. I called again and they say press ctrl
cmnd+pr. Three times they asked me to do the same.
For weeks they said it is only the fan. I insisted. Eventually they said I need to get it back to the store (taxi £20) I said enough! so they sent someone to take it from my place (couldn't you say this from the beginning, it is a 27 mac after all).
A whole week passed by, I called and they said it was repaired, they just want to keep it in there for few more days to check it is all right. A LIE!!!
I called after 2 days and someone else said the new part just arrived.
They should have replaced the computer, I paid almost £2000 and need to go through weeks of frustration and misery, missing the deadline for my degree show project.
