laptop harddrive noise

[Adam Hardy]

I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo 
and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives.

The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to leave the machine 
on 24x7. However these are the first 2.5 inch harddrives I've ever had and they 
(or at least one of them) are making a disconcerting clicking noise every 5 to 
25 seconds at random - it sounds a bit like a metronome, if it wasn't so irregular.

What I'm wondering, is whether it's etch reading or writing and the noise is the 
 disc spinning up or the heads engaging.

I've configured the machine to run as a proxy gateway for my network with a 
firewall, but also with KDE, although that's not running as I sit here now 
listening to it. I shut down a few of the daemons that I thought might be 
causing it, but it carries on regardless.

As well as being disconcerting, it's also an issue because I want to use this as 
a media center as well, and the last thing I want is some constant clicking noise.



Thanks,

Adam


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