sound of the HD Spinning?

[jinx5000]

I just got my 27" i5 and everything seems perfect! no yellow screen/bleeding/dead pixels! I couldn't be happier.

I got one with a WD HD and was wondering if others with the same HD had the same issue as i do... If it is an issue at all or it this is normal...

i'll be sitting in my room (perfectly quiet) and i can hear a spinning noise... very low but sounds like either a fan or the HD spinning. There is no grinding noise just the sound of something spinning... i was wondering if this is normal?

 

[alust2013]

If you are in a perfectly quiet room, you will be able to hear either the hard drive or fan spinning

 

[drambuie]

Compared to a desktop tower, or a laptop, the case of the 27" iMac makes a good sounding board, so even faint mechanical sounds and vibrations, may be amplified enough to be audible.

 

[Maltkvist]

And it's mechanical. No ssd-drive with no moving parts.

 

[spencecb]

In my experience, an iMac runs nearly silent. From time to time you'll be able to hear the hdd flare up.