My Macbook Pro 13" has a noisy HD

[JS82189]

Ok heres a small history on my hardrive(s):

I got the laptop in the summer, and it worked flawlessly. When I moved to my Dad's I was playing WoW in a pretty hot room (you would break a sweat, but I did have the fan on [me not the laptop usually]), and my mac kept shutting down. It was ok for simple apps, but WoW really overloaded it frequently.

Eventually, maybe first week of september my hard drive totally failed, so I took it to and they replaced the hard-drive.

Current Issue:

Now I am in a basement room, and it is frequentl really cold down here when i turn off the space-heater (or else it gets way too hot under my blankets).

We had a power outage that lasted a few days during a huge NE US blizzard.. I turned my laptop on (keep in mind it is REALLY cold in my room), and the hard-drive made this really loud clicking noise.. this eventually subdued as I used the laptop (it warmed up?)... but ever since my laptop makes a clicking noise (it also has a low hum/low-rapid click noise when i use it)...

My laptop is often taken out of a cold environmnet, (sitting in my car during my art class + 1 hour then for my other classes) and when I initially take out my laptop the aluminum casing is COLD.


Question:

Did the extreme cold cause this? Is the frequent contact with chill temperatures causing this? And should I be concerned/ get a new HD?

 

[mrsir2009]

Hmm, it shouldn't do. Are you using the computer at an angle? Because sometimes when you do that the HDD scrapes on something... When I use my 13" MBP on 10C winter mornings the HDD is fine

 

[cswee10582]

My GF has an Aluminum MB from early '09 and it too makes a clicking sound with the hard drive every 3-5 minutes...we did some research and think that it could be a failing head on the read/write mechanism...

She's like 2 weeks out of warranty, but has everything backed up so she should be OK if it does die on her.

Chris

What does anyone else think of the noisy HDD?

 

[mackmgg]

After experiencing the same storm, my laptop was freezing when I first turned it on afterwards. It is fine now, and I would recommend bringing it to an apple store if it does not go away.

 

[zipa]

What does anyone else think of the noisy HDD?

Whenever a HDD starts making "unusual" noises, it's time to make sure that your backups are up to date.

 

[rl2k05]

Ok heres a small history on my hardrive(s):

I got the laptop in the summer, and it worked flawlessly. When I moved to my Dad's I was playing WoW in a pretty hot room (you would break a sweat, but I did have the fan on [me not the laptop usually]), and my mac kept shutting down. It was ok for simple apps, but WoW really overloaded it frequently.

Eventually, maybe first week of september my hard drive totally failed, so I took it to and they replaced the hard-drive.

Current Issue:

Now I am in a basement room, and it is frequentl really cold down here when i turn off the space-heater (or else it gets way too hot under my blankets).

We had a power outage that lasted a few days during a huge NE US blizzard.. I turned my laptop on (keep in mind it is REALLY cold in my room), and the hard-drive made this really loud clicking noise.. this eventually subdued as I used the laptop (it warmed up?)... but ever since my laptop makes a clicking noise (it also has a low hum/low-rapid click noise when i use it)...

My laptop is often taken out of a cold environmnet, (sitting in my car during my art class + 1 hour then for my other classes) and when I initially take out my laptop the aluminum casing is COLD.


Question:

Did the extreme cold cause this? Is the frequent contact with chill temperatures causing this? And should I be concerned/ get a new HD?

Just upgraded mine to the WD Blue 500GB 5200 rpm. Its quiet as a church mouse!

 

[kap09]

Just upgraded mine to the WD Blue 500GB 5200 rpm. Its quiet as a church mouse!

My scorpio blue is also very quiet. Highly recommended.

That said, OP - backup and return the machine for service asap. No sense in waiting for it to fail.

 

[JS82189]

This is what I was expecting.. apple is really failing on HD here..

 

[kap09]

This is what I was expecting.. apple is really failing on HD here..

sad, but true.

my mbp is in for repairs (display, logic board) and i had a lengthy chat with an applecare rep who seemed to think my disk would be replaced by default due to an ongoing hd issue.