On Dec 3, 2004, at 12:03 pm, Tom Burke wrote:
Well I spoke to Gordon Harwoods (please not another GH thread....) this morning - I bought the PB there & (later) the Apple Care policy. And they confirm that the drive wold be replaceable.
Actually, their techie noted that his PB also clicks, esp when restarted or woken up, and he didn't seem too worried about it....
FWIW I had an iBook 300 that did this for the entire time I had it and never batted an eyelid. I took the drive out when the iBook died and put it in a 3400c and it doesn't do it now! I believe it is a 'feature' of the IBM/Hitachi Travelstar drives, it might be a thermal re-calibration cycle that it has to go through every few minutes when it first powers up to cope with the mechanicals expanding as they warm up. I know thermal re-cal cycles used to be commonplace on high speed 3.5" drives but the problem was overcome dynamically in the end, however the limitations of small drives may make it less feasible to overcome it. I have another 5GB Travelstar in an external FW case that does it occasionally too come to think of it and it's also fine.
I wouldn't worry about it personally, it never does any harm to keep regular backups tho.
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