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Seagate rumble is still present in 27" refresh!

Snowcake said:
Why?

I hear the people on these forum saying that the Hitachi is very quiet.
What do you exactly mean?
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I'm was talking about quality, not quietness. Hitachi is almost bottom of the barrel grade stuff.

Will it break? No clue, the iMac has a fan for cooling the drive bays, but the ones in the servers at work failed in half a year in a high I/0 environment.
 
My Seagate on my pc is a bit noisy when accessing data, i guess i won't complain since i'm use to it. Hope i get a WD on the i7 tho.
 
sheareb said:
Mine is 1 TB model ST31000528AS- absolutely no noise whatsoever so its not true that all these drives rumble and make noise.
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Same for me. I can hear my Seagate drive spin quietly, but it's absolutely silent when the machine is idling. When it has to load apps I can also barely hear it in a silent room. So yes, not all Seagate 1TB drives have this issue. :)
 
Mine is a 1TB Western Digital WDC WD1001FALS-40Y6A0 along with my ssd.

My computer is silent I only hear the fans come on when I use handbrake. Even when they come on you can barely hear them.
 
MorphingDragon said:
I'm was talking about quality, not quietness. Hitachi is almost bottom of the barrel grade stuff.

Will it break? No clue, the iMac has a fan for cooling the drive bays, but the ones in the servers at work failed in half a year in a high I/0 environment.
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All hard drives can fail. Name a brand and I'll show you one, here at my house, that has failed.
 
My 27" i7 came with the WD 1TB drive as well. I am glad.

So far, no real issues. Maybe some slight bleed in the bottom right corner, but I can live with that. It is no where near as bad as my TV.
 
So i got my 27 inch i7 and was in pig heaven when this display was flawless...

then this bad boy starting to have tummy problems..

I have the 1TB ST31000528AS Seagate in here, and am regretting not spending the extra dough for the 2TB with hopes of getting the WD drive...

So anyone else have this constant grumbling noises? and if so, do you have to send it back to Apple for a new machine? or can they swap you in a different drive at the Apple store?

I would hate to send this back just to get a bad screen...

My wife thinks i'm crazy for wanting to send it back, but if you are in a quiet room, the constant gurgle drives you insane..

Thoughts?
 
Figured I would chime in with my observation. I can confirm that I have a Seagate 1TB ST31000528AS that is DEAD silent. After reading this post, I put the computer to work and place my ear over the display with no sound in the room. All I could hear was the quiet hum of fans and occasional slight chirps. I pretty sensitive to sound myself, and couldn't be happier with how quiet this machine is. Also, it's a 21.5" Mid 2010 3.2.
 
Anthony8720 said:
Figured I would chime in with my observation. I can confirm that I have a Seagate 1TB ST31000528AS that is DEAD silent. After reading this post, I put the computer to work and place my ear over the display with no sound in the room. All I could hear was the quiet hum of fans and occasional slight chirps. I pretty sensitive to sound myself, and couldn't be happier with how quiet this machine is. Also, it's a 21.5" Mid 2010 3.2.
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Can you post info about the drive from your system profiler? Perhaps there is a firmware difference.

Here is info from my rumbly drive:
ST31000528AS:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model: ST31000528AS
Revision: AP25
Serial Number: 6VP42MFF
Native Command Queuing: Yes
 
product26 said:
Can you post info about the drive from your system profiler? Perhaps there is a firmware difference.

Here is info from my rumbly drive:
ST31000528AS:
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model: ST31000528AS
Revision: AP25
Serial Number: 6VP42MFF
Native Command Queuing: Yes
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Just took a peek at your stats, and the only thing different about mine is the serial number.

Anthony
 
muziq said:
So i got my 27 inch i7 and was in pig heaven when this display was flawless...

then this bad boy starting to have tummy problems..

I have the 1TB ST31000528AS Seagate in here, and am regretting not spending the extra dough for the 2TB with hopes of getting the WD drive...

So anyone else have this constant grumbling noises? and if so, do you have to send it back to Apple for a new machine? or can they swap you in a different drive at the Apple store?

I would hate to send this back just to get a bad screen...

My wife thinks i'm crazy for wanting to send it back, but if you are in a quiet room, the constant gurgle drives you insane..

Thoughts?
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The safest thing to do is to crack the screen or bend the stand or something. Then call Apple and say it arrived damaged. That way they can't give you any grief for your concern, they will be forced to replace it.
 
xraydoc said:
All hard drives can fail. Name a brand and I'll show you one, here at my house, that has failed.
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Maxtor :p... Those suck... :p
juicedropsdeuce said:
The safest thing to do is to crack the screen or bend the stand or something. Then call Apple and say it arrived damaged. That way they can't give you any grief for your concern, they will be forced to replace it.
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If you have ever had one of these iMacs, you will understand how hard it is to bend the stand. It is around 1/4" thick aluminum. My dad has a 20" iMac, and I have literally carried it by it's stand and it will not bend.... No, I was not trying to bend it, I was simply trying to carry it.

Edit: I just realized that what you are describing is called fraud. Just putting that out there.
 
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