Why does Leopard make your hard drive louder?

[writeous]

After installing Leopard yesterday, I noticed that my hard drive is twice as loud as it was when running Tiger. Its not something Im imagining either. i know this is someone what a minor issue but it cant be a good thing.

 

[unity]

Thats pretty much impossible.... The OS cant, technically, control the platter speed.

 

[benlee]

After installing Leopard yesterday, I noticed that my hard drive is twice as loud as it was when running Tiger. Its not something Im imagining either. i know this is someone what a minor issue but it cant be a good thing.

Could be that your spotlight is indexing and working the hdd...

 

[MoxieFan]

Are you referring to what sounds like the RPM rate being 'faster' ?
Mine does that when I'm using my HP scanner . . POS . . . PL

 

[Sun Baked]

Leopard was using more memory than Tiger, until the 10.5.1 update ...

But while the RAM issue has been solved, Leopard does still create rather large VM spaces -- so the drive is likely being used more.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Could be that your spotlight is indexing and working the hdd...

That's my thought on what you're perceiving as "louder." After mine indexed the drive (which it did in Tiger too) it's just as quite as it was when running Tiger.

 

[rhoydotp]

After installing Leopard yesterday, I noticed that my hard drive is twice as loud as it was when running Tiger. Its not something Im imagining either. i know this is someone what a minor issue but it cant be a good thing.

or maybe it's just more quite around you

 

[m i k e]

I have a MacBook Pro SR with the 7200rpm hard drive and I'm having the same issue. Any solution?