Changed HDD - started to hear my MBP

[ZzBoG]

I used to have 160GB 5400 HDD untill today's morning..

Now there's WD Scorpio BLue 500GB installed in my MBP.

And I can hear some silent noise, coming from that HDD. I mean my previous, low-capacity 160GB Hitachi was just silent (no noise at all!!)

Is there anything, that can be done about it?? I mean if I had known, I should've gone for 7200.4 500GB Momentus!!

I still hope there are some tweaks, that can silent my HDD... Are there?

 

[maflynn]

And I can hear some silent noise, coming from that HDD.

I know what you mean but saying some silent noise makes absolutely no sense.

Anyways, there's possibly a couple of reasons why the HD is noisier, one is that the bearings need time to seat properly and after a little while it will quiet down. The other reason is that its just a noisier drive and there's little you can do to dampen the sound.

Unless the noise is loud, I'd not get too worked up about it.

 

[Z06jerry]

WD Scorpio BLue 500GB is noisy

I used to have 160GB 5400 HDD untill today's morning..

Now there's WD Scorpio BLue 500GB installed in my MBP.

And I can hear some silent noise, coming from that HDD. I mean my previous, low-capacity 160GB Hitachi was just silent (no noise at all!!)

Is there anything, that can be done about it?? I mean if I had known, I should've gone for 7200.4 500GB Momentus!!

I still hope there are some tweaks, that can silent my HDD... Are there?

There has been a lot written here about noisy WD Scorpio Blues. Try searching. The constant low level whooshing noise was annoying and I also had the head parking clicking sound every 10 seconds in my '09 MBP. I took mine out and now use it in an external case for TM. I went back to the stock Fujitsu which is much quieter. Others are also reporting that the Hitachi HD's are quiet too. Maybe this is why Apple uses these 2 brands.

 

[ZzBoG]

After some time the noise became a less noticeable, I can call my MBP almost silent.

If it's gonna be this way in the future, I'll be keeping the drive.

And I am very picky here, since my MBP is on all the time and serves as an alarm clock in the morning.

 

[syriangamer]

The WD and Seagate ARE more audiable than the original. I have a quick DIY method for silencing over at my blog here. However, after some quick reading it would seem that the quietest option might be to buy

a) a smaller hd, or
b) buy hitachi/fujitsu

 

[Richard1028]

And I am very picky here, since my MBP is on all the time and serves as an alarm clock in the morning.

Wouldn't a real alarm clock make more sense than burning your mac's circuitry 24/7?

 

[Dan73]

Buy a cheap SSD.

Complete silence.