Hitachi hard drive weird noise

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Re: Hitachi hard drive weird noise

Is this a Hitach 7k250 by any chance?? I have an original 2003 vintage one that's PATA and 120G.. meow's every 10 minutes when it's turned on, and is normal for these drives..

The one in my recording is a Excelstor Ganymede J680 (Hitachi OEM). They're probably mostly identical to the Hitachi lineup from the same timeframe.
http://bambooz.pytalhost.net/badcaps/Excelstor_J680.jpg

@seanc: wow.. load cycle count at 375567 But laptop drives seem to be more tolerant to this than desktop ones

[seanc]

Re: Hitachi hard drive weird noise

I believe they started putting the 'Sudden Motion Sensor' into these MacBook Pro's which park the head if they detect sudden movement such as a drop.
Either it's overly sensitive or possibly the drive has its own sensor and they don't get on well together. It's been working fine for 2 years. I RMA'd the first one because it developed 1 bad sector after a few months and I wasn't going to put up with that on a new drive.