Hi, I have a 7500 that has a 20GB seagate barracuda hard drive. I put the seagate in when the old drive went kaput less than two years ago. As soon as I installed the drive I too heard a strange clicking noise that scared me. Sometimes it would also make a faint, tinny-sounding (as in tin, not tiny) beep. The noises weren't constant, just once in a while. But, the drive appeared to work just fine, so I just got used to it.
However, a few months back, I installed a Sonnet G3/500 upgrade card along with an additional 244MB of memory, and the sounds immediately disappeared. My hard drive is now *amazingly* quiet -- just like the marketing verbiage said it would be. So, I'm thinking the Seagate drives make noise when they are having to work too hard to accommodate a slow processor or something. Just my idiot's deductive reasoning at work here. I really have no clue. I just thought I'd share this info as it is something that I noticed in my machine. See ya. Tamara -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
