From: Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I bought a summer 2000 iMac, back when snow was unique and "chic", I am kinda sad they adopted snow as their new "beige" but that's another thought.
If you remember those are the ones that were hyped as the quiet fan-less models, right quiet... I am fairly certain that the loud humming is the hard drive spinning, if I were to upgrade my hard drive(unlikely, considering money) would that calm the noise down?
Yes. That's exactly what I did with mine -- I replaced the noisy stock HD (a 60GB 5400RPM) with a 120GB 7200 8MB cache Western Digital. Now the machine is almost completely silent. Heaven.
I put the original drive in a Firewire case which is in itself rather noisy (fan noise), but I only fire it up to do backups.
_Chas_
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