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27" iMac Hard Drive Noise

Possible Solution?

Hi Everyone, So I have been wrestling with this issue for about a month now and have spent hours trawling through forums looking for information here is what I have noticed, and my two pence worth at a solution.

Okay so the constant reading and writing to the Hard disk making an extremely annoying gurgling sound like a stomach rumbling.

My first recommendation after reading other threads is to reboot your mac and ONLY open terminal and type the following

sudo fs_usage -f filesys

from this I noticed that every hard disk noise corresponded to this process

s/Parallels/[Windows 7].pvm prl_disp_service
(Where [Windows 7] is the name of your Virtual Machine)

So I uninstalled parallels RESTARTED reindexed spotlight (Whilst excluding my Windows Partition) RESTARTED again.

Now for some reason this prl_disp_service is still running on startup despite no longer having parallels installed and this required a Killall in terminal to stop it (If anyone out there knows how to fully remove it from startup I think we might be on to a winner, I will keep looking and post a reply if i find one)

A bit of History
My 27" when bought new was migrated with my old iMac which had parallels installed on it. I am wondering that if anyone out there has done the same with there new iMac and has had Parallels installed at any time in the history of owning and migrating macs.

I believe this issue to be connected to parallels in some way as now that I have done all this I have been listening and watching terminal on my iMac whilst typing this on my Macbook, and other than the occasion read for other core services my iMac is virtually silent again. I will try to report back in a couple of days to see if it rears it ugly head again.

It seems a bit annoying having to remove Parallels from the mac to solve this but from reading around there seems to be all sorts of issues in the bowels of parallels that have yet to be fixed (Port Leaks and the like)

Oh and BTW I am in no way an expert I just gathered information and well blindly attempted a fix and it's been about 20 minutes now and my iMac is silent :) so maybe this is the solution.

The drives in the iMac a loud anyway no getting round that unless we all take them back for these quieter drives but at least this stop constant reading an writing to a program that either isn't open or even installed.

Regards

Edit this is the link on how to completely remove the processes from Parallels 5 (Link to 4 & 3 at the bottom)
hXXp://kb.parallels.com/6904
 
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Ugh...dropped some dough on a 27" iMac i7 and had LOTS of noise (gurgling). I brought it to the genius bar and the guy told me he would order new fans for it and they could take it in for a few days. I came home and thought, "Wait, what?," and called support as the machine was brand new. They put me on the line with a rep who swapped my refurb for a new machine, which was great. Just about to use migration assistant. Here's to hoping there's no gurgling this time! ;)
 
zachlegomaniac said:
Ugh...dropped some dough on a 27" iMac i7 and had LOTS of noise (gurgling). I brought it to the genius bar and the guy told me he would order new fans for it and they could take it in for a few days. I came home and thought, "Wait, what?," and called support as the machine was brand new. They put me on the line with a rep who swapped my refurb for a new machine, which was great. Just about to use migration assistant. Here's to hoping there's no gurgling this time! ;)
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There's nothing genius about the "genius bar", those guys have no clue about anything.

My gfx card in my Mac Pro was bad and they refused to swap it blaming Steam for my computer crashes. But after a few phone calls I convinced them to swap it and when I got it back it of course worked.

I solved the iMac noise problem... by buying a Mac Pro lol.
 
zachlegomaniac said:
Ugh...dropped some dough on a 27" iMac i7 and had LOTS of noise (gurgling). I brought it to the genius bar and the guy told me he would order new fans for it and they could take it in for a few days. I came home and thought, "Wait, what?," and called support as the machine was brand new. They put me on the line with a rep who swapped my refurb for a new machine, which was great. Just about to use migration assistant. Here's to hoping there's no gurgling this time! ;)
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new new one gurgles too. weird. :confused:
 
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Thanks detosx, but I dont recognize any manufacturers name in there, is it abbreviated or coded? Mine has ST3 with a bunch of numbers following it.
 
WhiskeySour said:
Thanks detosx, but I dont recognize any manufacturers name in there, is it abbreviated or coded? Mine has ST3 with a bunch of numbers following it.
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ST31000528AS? Seagate. If you have a 2010 imac (poss applies to the late 2009 models also) that Seagate is flashed with Apple firmware (to deliver the correct temperature readings along, in this case, propitiatory for-Seagate cable).
 
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Hello!

I am new here on the forum. I have an iMac 27 model year 2009 and I have experienced that I have a problem with it, among other things that I think the hard drive sounds and crackles.


I took it once to an Apple support and they started and ran the program and we heard nothing. And I have heard if you have stable and good table so your computer will not have vibration so you can hear the hard drive.

I wonder if any of you have experiences out of solid table tops or table which can be bought for a decent sum from Ikea or something similar? I've heard out that he had been tipped out of an architect that you should instead of table top for the desk so you should instead provide kitchen table top for them is much more stable. Someone who has a clue about this, which can agree with that?

Corner of the desktop I have now has something for small and cramped for me, and still possibly get me another one. Hope someone out answers me and thank you in advance.
/ Kaelbron
 
I sent my 2010 i5 back because of the hard drive gurgling noise and bought a 2010 i7 with 256 GB SSD. Solves the sound problem completely but now I have an issue with space. :eek:
 
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