I just got two new WD 750GB Caviar drives and they are making a fairly loud pulsating buzz. I surely hope this is not normal because I won't be able to stand it. I have also never installed a hard drive before. Do I have to format it or something? On my stock HDD on my Mac Pro the partition scheme says " GUID Partition Table" and for the two new drives they say "Unformatted". Could this have something to do with the strange buzzing?
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The buzzing is probably a resonance between the metal drive carrier and HDD.
You can install some thin felt between the HDD and carrier to damp the resonance.
You can install some thin felt between the HDD and carrier to damp the resonance.
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