Recently, I have noticed my Macbook Pro is struggling - now this machine has been with me through a lot over the last year I have had it (it was a refurbished 2ghz core duo), so I've got some strong feelings of worry and sadness. 
My harddrive is parking, almost constantly when there's any disc activity (writing, reading, or idle) however, there's a massive 3/4 second pause just before it does, then 'poing' the drive parks, pinwheel, and then everything works normally - until about 2 minutes later when it does it again.
Sometimes, there is a 30/40 second delay on the initial startup chime, I'm left with a black screen and a dim sleep light. This I have concluded is down to the drive too.
My drive is the Seagate ST910021AS 7200RPM 100GB drive. SMART Status is OK, Disk verifies as OK in Disk Utility - yet these pauses are driving me mad, does anyone have any idea how I can fix this, or is my drive a time bomb?
My harddrive is parking, almost constantly when there's any disc activity (writing, reading, or idle) however, there's a massive 3/4 second pause just before it does, then 'poing' the drive parks, pinwheel, and then everything works normally - until about 2 minutes later when it does it again.
Sometimes, there is a 30/40 second delay on the initial startup chime, I'm left with a black screen and a dim sleep light. This I have concluded is down to the drive too.
My drive is the Seagate ST910021AS 7200RPM 100GB drive. SMART Status is OK, Disk verifies as OK in Disk Utility - yet these pauses are driving me mad, does anyone have any idea how I can fix this, or is my drive a time bomb?