I haven't been following the topic closely, but most notebook drives do
produce a rattle and it is normal. I personally have only used Toshiba
drives, but they all rattle, they all say "Rattle noise is normal" on the
top of the drive, and they all work fine. If you put the drive in and it
works fine, then there should be nothing to worry about.
-John Balint
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on 6/20/01 2:30 AM, Glenn R. Fong at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Date: 19 Jun 2001 18:51:33 -0400
>> From: "jpmist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> That's what's so good about this list. I'm outvoted 5 to 1 on the
>> Travelstars having a normal rattle, so I'll conceed to the greater
>> wisdom that in all likely hood the drive is probably OK.
>>
>> Still <<stubbornly trying to maintain a shred of credibility> unless
>> you install drives all day long, how can one distinguish a normal
>> rattle from one that means your drive is DOA?
>
> I was the original poster of this particular topic, and thanks to all for
> the good feedback. I believe it was someone on another list that provided
> the following official IBM documentation on the TravelStar rattling:
>
> http://ssddom01.storage.ibm.com/hddt/knowtree.nsf/5351a3ebb45dcd6b862565b000
> 5318c3/a9c2c014d03522c2862569ff00787c56?OpenDocument
>
>
>
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