Beep on HD sleep?

[Amphibian]

Just installed a second Samsung F1 500GB (HD502IJ) hard drive in my 2x1.8 G5 Power Mac. I have the "Energy Saver" option on default and the system turns the hard drives off when they're not being used. Everything is working good with this drive except one thing: When the system turns the Samsung to sleep, there's a tiny beep/sound, like coming from the motherboard or something. So I was wondering:

1. Should there be a beep on sleep?
2. How do I turn this annoying beep off?

Thanks, cheers, much obliged; and all that!

 

[Analog Kid]

Just installed a second Samsung F1 500GB (HD502IJ) hard drive in my 2x1.8 G5 Power Mac. I have the "Energy Saver" option on default and the system turns the hard drives off when they're not being used. Everything is working good with this drive except one thing: When the system turns the Samsung to sleep, there's a tiny beep/sound, like coming from the motherboard or something. So I was wondering:

1. Should there be a beep on sleep?
2. How do I turn this annoying beep off?

Thanks, cheers, much obliged; and all that!

Interesting-- I've been getting some sort of beep for quite a while and it doesn't seem to only occur when the drives go to sleep. It will happen repetitively for a while-- and I can't figure out where it's coming from exactly, or what causes it. A lot of drive activity doesn't seem to cause it, nor does spinning the drive down.

I have 4 Seagate drives in a striped RAID.

I don't think it's a good sound-- I also get periodic "drive4: I/O error" messages in the Console which I'm sure is a Bad Thing.

 

[Amphibian]

I have a smaller Seagate that didn't make sounds at all... What could be the issue with this new HD? Does running the HD's on all the time wear them out very rapidly?

 

[Amphibian]

Anyone got's any ideas?