Hi Steve,

One of the hard drives is used for Time Machine backups of my main drive, so I 
have a backup system in place, as long as that drive is not failing.

I was wondering whether something might be polling a drive.  I do not recall 
installing anything lately (except SMART Utility!), but the sysadmins might 
have pushed stuff onto our machines.

Thanks for the help,

Gregg

On 19 Jul 2011, at 5:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2011-07-19 15:15 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote:
>> I have a Mac Pro that is making an odd clicking sound, which I assume is 
>> coming from either a hard drive or a DVD drive.  It seems to make noise for 
>> a few seconds and then is quiet for about 10 minutes.
> 
> it could be a drive, in which case it's hard to say if it's a worry; i'd make 
> sure your backup system is in order ...
> 
> it could also be that you recently installed an app or service which 
> periodically polls the hard drives

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