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    New Aspire 5734Z clicky hard drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by eggbert74, Aug 14, 2010.

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    Hello, I just got my very 1st notebook. It's an elcheapo $328 job from walmart. It's ok, I guess for being cheap... However, it's making weird noises.

    When it's idle, the hard drive will make a faint clicky type of sound. It sounds like the drive heads are parking... When it's really idle it will do it every few seconds, its quite annoying.

    Now I know that a clicking hard drive usually mean trouble, but then i see threads like this and it appears it might be a common thing for laptop drives to click.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell/168425-clicking-noise-issue-resolved.html

    I'm wondering if this is some kind of drive power saving/drop protection thing the drive is doing, or if the drive is just bad. I hate to have to put my trust in a clicky drive.

    Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated.
     
    eggbert74, Aug 14, 2010
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