With regard to odd noises emanating from the Mac mini hard drive, it appears that there are two different symptoms accompanying two separate issues. In the first type, what can best be described as a ...

Whenever mechanical hard drives are accessed, various noises will be heard, including clicking, whirring, and the occasional "grinding," which is just a series of subtle click sounds close together.

Does anyone else find their iBook 800 hard drive to be excessively loud? Maybe I'm just not up to speed on what notebook hard drives sound like, but the seeks on this thing are very noisy, with loud ...

So, out of the blue, the hard drive in my (not too old) Fujitsu P1120 laptop began to make a whirring noise <I>when I tilt or move the laptop</I>. As long as the laptop is stationary, read/write and ...