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Hard drive scrape?
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Yes, that's the sudden motion sensor (SMS). It's designed to protect your hard drive if you drop your laptop. The click/scrape noise is the hard drive quickly parking its head. The newer models (2010 and later) are a bit trigger happy when it comes to acivating the SMS, but still it may suggest you are handling your MacBook a bit too rough.
Yes, that's the sudden motion sensor (SMS). It's designed to protect your hard drive if you drop your laptop. The click/scrape noise is the hard drive quickly parking its head. The newer models (2010 and later) are a bit trigger happy when it comes to acivating the SMS, but still it may suggest you are handling your MacBook a bit too rough.
I am referring to a late 2008 version. All I am doing is tilting it sideways slightly when taking it off my lap to get off the couch. That isn't considered rough is it?
Its definitely the SMS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor
It comes with all Apple portables starting from the 2005 PowerBooks.
Thats not rough at all.
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Wow I always thought it was me wrecking the HDD...
Feel a little safer now, just goes to show you learn something new everyday.
borisiii said:
Wow I always thought it was me wrecking the HDD...
Feel a little safer now, just goes to show you learn something new everyday.